Acute mastitis can be treated effectively with reflexology

This is an acute pyogenic infection of the breasts in breastfeeding women, usually occurring three to four months after childbirth and most common in first pregnancies. Acute mastitis in modern medicine can be treated by the following methods.
  
Massage therapy:
  
Location: Chest, liver, breast, and lymph node areas, interosseous spaces on palm, and tender spots.
  
Method of manipulation: Pressing and kneading maneuvers applied to the chest, liver, breast, and lymph node areas; pushing and pressing interosseous spaces on palm; and digit-pressing maneuver at tender spots. This manipulation may be repeatedly applied.
  
Acupuncture therapy:
 
At regular and extra acupoints:
  
Location: Neiguan (PC6), Hegu (LI 4), Quchi (LI 11).
  
Method of manipulation: The strong stimulation is applied and the needles are retained for 30 minutes.

At reflective point.
   
Location: Chest reflective point.
   
Method of manipulation: The needle is inserted For 1.6 cm and retained for five minutes.
   
At reflective areas:
   
Location: Breast area in palmar reflective areas and radial and ulnar reverse palmar reflective areas.
   
Method of manipulation: Routine acupuncture and bleeding therapy may be applied.
   
Hand bath:
   
Recipe: Liujinu (Herba Artemisiae Anomalae) 30 g, Pugong- ying (Herba Taraxaci) 60 g, Zihuadiding (Radix et Herba Violae) 30 g, Honghua (Flos Carthami) l0 g, and Ruxiang (Frankincence) l0 g.
   
Function: To clear heat pathogen, relieve intoxication, release blood stasis, and stop pain.
   
Method of manipulation: The herbs are wrapped in gauze and boiled in water to prepare a hot decoction for application of steaming and washing therapy to both hands and affected breast for 30 minutes, two to three times a day. This therapy can produce a good elTect at the early stages of acute mastitis.