Is it good to apply Glauber's salt on breasts?

When weaning the baby, it will be a headache for many breastfeeding women, because the baby will cry and the mother's breasts will swell and there will be problems with milk secretion. At this time, certain methods can be used for weaning, such as applying Glauber's salt to the breasts, which can achieve a good weaning effect. This treatment can be carried out under the guidance of a professional doctor.

Is Glauber's Salt effective in reducing milk production?

Glauber's salt is the common name for sodium sulfate containing water of crystallization. Sodium sulfate is a crystal made by processing and refining a widely distributed sulfate mineral. It is mainly used to break up abdominal distension, relieve food in a normal temperature, and promote digestion, expel water, and provide mild laxative. Used for stomach distension, food distension, indigestion, edema, edema, breast swelling, amenorrhea, and constipation. In arid areas, salt blooms and crusts formed by them can often be seen. Glauber's salt is very effective in reducing lactation. Its functions and indications are: purging heat and promoting bowel movements, moistening dryness and softening hard masses, clearing fire and reducing swelling. It is used for constipation due to excess heat, dry and hard stool, abdominal pain due to accumulation of fat, and swollen and painful intestinal abscesses; it can also be used externally to treat breast abscesses and swollen and painful hemorrhoids.

Glauber's Salt Indications:

1. It is used for constipation and abnormal intestinal fermentation. It can also be used with anthelmintics. It can be used in combination with activated carbon to treat food or drug poisoning.

2. Used for obstructive jaundice and chronic cholecystitis.

3. Used for convulsions, eclampsia, uremia, tetanus, hypertensive encephalopathy and acute renal hypertensive crisis, etc.

4. It is also used for patients with frequent angina pectoris who have poor response to other treatments, and it is more effective for patients with hypertension.

5. Apply hot compress externally to reduce inflammation and swelling.

What can I eat to stop breastfeeding?

Vegetables: leeks, celery, mushrooms, white radish, leek, cabbage, purslane, beans, cucumber, bitter gourd, eggplant, pumpkin, etc.

Cereals and grains: sweet potato, corn, malt, etc.

Fruits: grapefruit, orange, sand apple, pomegranate, hawthorn, plum, persimmon, etc.

Meat and liver: beef, pork liver, duck, pork heart, old hen, ham, etc.

Aniseed: fennel, salt (not too salty), vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, pepper, mustard, etc.

Aquatic organisms and supplements: field snails, snails, cold foods (such as crabs), sea cucumbers, American ginseng, ginseng, etc.