The potential of herbal steam bath and acupressure at SP 6 and LI4 acupoints in blood pressure normal postpartum mother (stimulating physicalrecovery)
Journal Title: International Journal of Allied Medical Sciences and Clinical Research - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1
Abstract
Background All normal postpartum mothers will experience physical changes due to the process of pregnancy and childbirth that require stimulation to restore their health. One change that occurs is blood. The body of the postpartum mother tends to be cold due to blood loss during the birth process causing the mother to tend to be easily sick. Herbal steam bath and acupressure as a nonpharmacological therapy to help restore the health of postpartum mothers through the principle of warming to the blood through increasing changes in blood pressure as an indicator of increasing body metabolism Objective To determine the potential of steam bath and acupressure herbs for recovery of postpartum maternal health through changes in increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure Method Quasi Experiment with pre-post control group design, sampling using accidental sampling method. Respondents were 51 people divided into 3 groups, 17 respondents were given steambath herbal treatment, 17 respondents were given acupressure treatment and 17 respondents were controls. Data analysis using Krusskal Wallis Test and continued with Mannwhitney PostHoc. Results Herbal steam bath increased systolic blood pressure 5.8 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure 3.4 mmHg. Acupressure lowers systolic blood pressure 1 mmHg and diastole blood pressure 0.5 mmHg. The manhitney test obtained a p value of <0.05, meaning that there was a significant difference in herbal steam bath to help increase the postpartum blood pressure compared to acupressure and control. Conclusions and Recommendations Giving herbal steam bath therapy stimulates the health of postpartum mothers and increases the body's metabolism characterized by increasing blood pressure. Herbal steam baths can be used as nopharmacological treatments to help restore the health of postpartummothers.
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Alfika Awatiszahro
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