Specific method of cabbage compressing milk knot

For postpartum women, if they have no experience in breastfeeding, it may cause breast congestion, which often leads to poor milk secretion and causes symptoms of swollen and painful breasts. At this time, you can use cabbage therapy and apply the cabbage to the breasts. You can apply the whole cabbage leaves on the breasts, which has a certain cooling and analgesic effect and reduces swelling.

How to apply cabbage to breasts

Use a hot and wet towel to apply heat to the breasts for a few minutes, followed by gentle massage and patting to soften the breasts and areola and reduce the feeling of milk swelling. When breastfeeding, feed the breast that feels more swollen first.

Cabbage therapy: Applying cabbage to the breasts is a common folk method: wash a cabbage, peel off each leaf completely, and then cover the entire breast with leaves along the armpits and pectoralis major muscles. Apply slight pressure with a bra to allow the cabbage leaves to fully contact the skin. Remove it after 24 hours. This method can effectively reduce breast engorgement and prevent new mothers from suffering from mastitis due to improper care. Chinese medicine treatment: Take 120g of Glauber's salt, put them into two gauze bags respectively, apply them to the breasts and bandage them, which can significantly relieve the feeling of breast swelling and pain.

Benefits of Eating Cabbage

1. Cabbage is rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, etc. The total vitamin content is 3 times that of tomatoes. Therefore, it has strong antioxidant and anti-aging effects.

2. Cabbage is rich in folic acid, which has a good preventive effect on megaloblastic anemia and fetal malformations. Therefore, pregnant women and children and adolescents in their growth and development period should eat more of it.

3. Fresh cabbage has bactericidal and anti-inflammatory effects. When you have a sore throat, swelling and pain due to trauma, stomachache, or toothache, you can drink the cabbage juice or apply it to the affected area.

4. Cabbage is rich in propyl isothiocyanate derivatives, which can kill abnormal cells in the human body that cause leukemia.

5. Cabbage is rich in vitamin U, which has a good therapeutic effect on ulcers. It can accelerate the healing of ulcers and prevent gastric ulcers from becoming malignant.

6. Cabbage is rich in indole compounds. Experiments have shown that "indole" has anti-cancer effects and can prevent humans from developing colon cancer.

7. Cabbage is rich in sulforaphane. This substance can stimulate human cells to produce enzymes that are beneficial to the body, thereby forming a protective film that resists the erosion of foreign carcinogens. Sulforaphane is the most powerful anti-cancer ingredient found in vegetables to date.