TCM Pregnancy Treatments – 8 Things We Can Help You With!

TCM Pregnancy Treatment: You may not know, but acupuncture and Chinese medicine can be effective when used to treat certain conditions in pregnancy. We have been doing this for over a decade and have pregnant and postpartum women coming in almost every day of the week. Read on below to find out more.

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TCM Treatments and Pregnancy

Threatened Miscarriage

Morning Sickness (Hyperemesis)

What is a Prenatal Massage?

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TCM Treatments and Pregnancy

We need to look more closely at how Chinese herbs interact with one another in order to comprehend how these prescriptions function. Each herb has a unique role or collection of functions to maintain the internal body environment’s harmony and balance, according to the fundamental principles of TCM. To guarantee a smooth pregnancy, it’s essential to maintain a balance between the blood and energy flow throughout the process.

A TCM physician creates a prescription by combining individual herbs or combinations of herbs. Each TCM herbal prescription is personalized for the patient. As a result, not every formulation is appropriate for everyone. It is prescribed based on the unique set of symptoms that each patient presents. For instance, in TCM, herbs with cooling characteristics are employed if a patient has a fever. TCM includes treatments for various problems that may emerge during pregnancy, even though it places an emphasis on preventing complications through preparing for pregnancy week.

The herbs in the prescription assist in restoring the body’s internal harmony and condition and also work to relieve various pregnancy-related side effects like nausea and dizziness. Therefore, it is crucial for worried mothers to comprehend the underlying concepts of the herbs before deciding to use them as medication, food, a tonic, or as suggested by old wives’ tales. However, if herbs are used improperly, side effects like miscarriages, induced abortions, or harm to the fetus may happen.

As per the study by the Mayo Clinic, around the 20th week of pregnancy, the foetus response to sound occurs, and by the time it is born, the fetus’s eyes, ears, and other senses have developed. This gives the foetus a deep feeling of the rich information and the physiological and psychological changes that are occurring in the pregnant woman, especially the changes to the senses of touch and hearing, which are the physiological foundation of foetal education. In actuality, foetal education is a type of culture technique used in the foetal nervous system’s development.

According to contemporary medical theory, this effect is finalised by the foetal nervous system. The human nervous system and brain develop primarily during the period of growth, particularly during the foetal and infant periods. Since the 10th week of pregnancy, the foetal pressure sense and touch receptors have developed and started to function. Specialised care for pregnant women and postpartum recovery has been encouraged by traditional Chinese medicine. Because it provides women with a drug-free alternative to typical pregnancy-related symptoms, this care is now becoming more and more popular in addition to being effective.

Threatened Miscarriage

In threatened miscarriage, you may experience an ongoing pregnancy, but with cramps or bleeding. The cramps often present as mild cramps. The bleeding is often in the form of a smear of diluted blood, or as spotting. It may also present as a mix of bleeding and discharge. It is a TCM pregnancy treatment. A pregnancy that may miscarry due to light vaginal bleeding, with or without abdominal pain or cramping, is referred to as a threatened abortion. […]

Morning Sickness (Hyperemesis)

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This can range from mild nausea to occasional vomiting during early pregnancy. It usually begins after the sixth week, and often ends early into the second trimester. The foetus is not at risk from morning sickness. In fact, according to some research, mild morning sickness may indicate a healthy pregnancy and is linked to lower odds of miscarriage. […]

Pregnancy Rash

Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy (PUPPP) is an itchy, bumpy rash that starts in the abdomen during the third trimester. Most women experience this during their first pregnancy, some women get it after delivery of the baby. When you’re pregnant, a patch of itchy, hive-like pimples called PUPPP rash develops in the stretch marks on your abdomen and spreads to other parts of your body. […]

Sciatica

It is a feeling of a tension or pulling in your butt through to your thighs. It can sometimes even be felt all the way down to the feet. It leads to a loss of feeling in the skin between and over the great toe and the second toe. Most persons who have sciatica pain describe it as burning or electric shock-like. Additionally, this pain frequently spreads or shoots down the affected leg. […]

Breech/Posteriors

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In 1998, Cardini and Weixin carried out a randomized controlled trial in Italy involving 260 primigravidas in the 33rd week of pregnancy, all with normal pregnancies and diagnosed with breech via ultrasound. You and your provider would follow up and discuss birth choices, potential problems, and dangers after an ultrasound had eventually confirmed a suspected breech presentation. […]

Water Retention

Water Retention is due to the accumulation of excessive fluid in the tissues. It is the common cause of swelling in the legs, feet, and/or hands. Pregnancy Water Retention starts to present in the third trimester and affects about three-quarters of pregnant women. Dr. Mark in Singapore will also go through your food modifications, medical history, current medications, and any unexpected weight gain that has occurred recently. […]

Bring on Labor

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While it is preferable not to force an otherwise natural process, induction is worth considering especially for PROM, post-dates, or if a medical induction has already been planned. The treatment will be inclusive of a consultation, acupuncture, heat, and microcirculation treatment. A doctor will utilize particular medications and methods to trigger labor if it is required to do so. […]

Prep for Birth

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All first-time mothers from October 2000 to February 2001 agreed to have pre-birth acupuncture, once a week for three weeks. Estimates of the duration of ‘normal’ labor are around 14 hours for primigravida and eight hours for multigravida. Nothing particular can assist us in determining the precise time of delivery. In truth, the body has been preparing for this moment during the final month of pregnancy. […]

What is a Prenatal Massage?

The physical changes that occur during pregnancy are accommodated in prenatal massages. You might spend half of a typical massage lying face-down on your stomach and the other half looking up. A skilled massage therapist will make adjustments, however, as your shape and posture change, using unique cushioning systems or holes that let you sleep face down comfortably while giving your expanding chest and breasts room. With the assistance of pillows and cushions, you may also lie on your side.

Prenatal massage can help you relax and relieve some of the aches and pains of pregnancy. Additionally, it might lessen swelling, uplift the spirit, and ease certain pregnant melancholy and anxiety.

Find a massage therapist with prenatal massage training and make sure to seek your doctor’s approval before getting a pregnant massage. They’ll be aware of the methods to employ and the zones to stay away from.

Our prenatal massages are done by our therapist who does Zen Out. He is experienced with prenatal massage and does a Zen Out session for pregnant mothers.