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Chai-Yok | Traditional Korean Vaginal Steaming
Chai-Yok (also written as Chaiyok) is a traditional Korean vaginal steaming treatment that involves a woman sitting on an open-seated stool with steam [ ... ]

Yu Duan Traditional Postpartum Confinement in Thailand
In Thailand, the Yu Duan postpartum confinement period is a so-called “rite of passage” and spans about thirty days where the new mother g [ ... ]

Traditional Mother and Child Care Treatments in Thailand
In Thailand, there’s a broad variety of traditional healing, supportive and restorative treatments that address mother and child care. Generally [ ... ]

Ayurvedic Postpartum Practices and Treatments in India
In India, the Ayurvedic outlook towards motherhood is that pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period are parts of a holistic experience. In thi [ ... ]

Chinese Postpartum Zuo Yue Zi | Sitting The Month
Chinese Postnatal Zuo Yue Zi — also written Zuoyuezi — is translated ‘Sitting The Month,’ ‘The Month Inside,’ R [ ... ]

Are There Any Health Benefits to Vaginal Steaming?
Vaginal Steaming, also known as V-Spa, V-Steaming, Vaginal Smoking, Perineum Steaming, or Yoni Steaming, is a traditional health treatment by which a [ ... ]

Javanese Ratus Vaginal Steaming Treatment in Indonesia
A Javanese Ratus treatment — also called Ratus Spa, Ratus V-Spa, Vaginal Steaming or Smoking, Ken Dedes (Kendedes) or Ganggang* — is perfo [ ... ]

Malaysian Urut Bersalin Postnatal Massage | What to Expect?
Malay Urut Bersalin (Urut Selepas Bersalin) is translated as ‘Massage after Childbirth’ or ‘Postnatal Massage.’ Sometimes it’s also named Ma [ ... ]

Malay Indonesian Sengkak Uterus Massage
Sengkak Massage — sometimes also called Sengkak Fertility Womb Massage — is primarily about re-setting the uterus (or womb) in its normal, [ ... ]

Avagaha Sweda | Ayurvedic Postpartum Sitz Bath
One of the traditional postpartum treatments in India is the Ayurvedic Avagaha Sitz Bath, where Avagaha translates as dipping or immersion and Sweda a [ ... ]