Personalised TCM Confinement Herbal Package | EMW Singapore
Personalised Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) confinement is a period of post-partum care that follows the principles of TCM with a personalised a holistic approach that focuses on helping the mother’s body to recover from childbirth and return to its pre-pregnancy state.
TCM confinement typically lasts for 28 days, but it can be longer or shorter depending on the individual’s needs. During this time, the mother will follow a special diet, avoid certain activities, and receive TCM treatments, such as acupuncture, massage, and herbal medicine.
Modern mothers often juggle recovery, breastfeeding, and emotional stress. At EMW TCM, our personalised TCM confinement herbal package bridges ancient wisdom with modern convenience, ensuring your body receives tailored herbal nourishment, naturally and safely.
The 3 Phases of Healing During TCM Confinement
Phase 1: Uterus Recovery (Days 1 – 6)
Focus: Clearing lochia, warming the womb, expelling wind-cold
- Key herbs promote circulation and tissue repair
- Encouraged: mild warmth, rest, gentle soups
- Avoid: cold drinks, raw food
Phase 2: Digestive Wellness & Breastfeeding (Days 7 – 21)
Focus: Strengthening digestion, supporting milk supply, stabilising hormones
- Herbs enhance Spleen Qi, enrich Blood, and improve mood
- Recommended meals: easily digested protein, warm porridge, gentle herbal teas
Phase 3: Vitality Booster (Days 22 – 28)
Focus: Long-term restoration of energy and immunity
- Tonifying herbs like Dang Shen, Huang Qi, and Bai Shao nourish Liver and Spleen
- Improves stamina, joint recovery, and emotional clarity
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Why Choose EMW’s Personalised TCM Confinement Herbal Package
Every woman’s body is different.
Your recovery needs depend on:
Type of delivery (natural or C-section)
Blood and Qi strength
Milk supply
Sleep, stress, and digestion patterns
At EMW TCM, our physician-formulated herbal care is:
Personalised: Herbs are customised after TCM pulse and tongue assessment
Physician-led: All prescriptions are reviewed by registered TCM physicians
Convenient: Herbs are pre-portioned into daily sachets
Safe for breastfeeding: Gentle, non-toxic formulations
Follow-up supported: Post-confinement consultation ensures smooth transition can be requested upon demand.
Our goal: to help you heal deeply, rebuild your vitality, and embrace motherhood with confidence.
There are many benefits to personalized TCM confinement, including:
- Improved recovery: To speed up the healing process after childbirth and reduce the risk of complications.
- Reduced discomfort: To relieve common postpartum symptoms such as pain, fatigue, and anxiety.
- Improved mood: To improve the mother’s mood and reduce the risk of postpartum depression.
- Enhanced lactation: To promote lactation and improve the quality of breast milk.
- Strengthened immune system: To strengthen the mother’s immune system and protect her from illness.
One can easily find 28 days confinement herbal soups off any herbal stores.
However, with EMW Personalised Confinement Herbal Package, herbs prescribed is supplementary to the 28 days confinement herbal soups. It is designed to be brewed into a decoction and to be drank separately outside of meals.
Therefore, confinement herbal soups are catered more towards general body constitution while our Herbal Package herbs are more catered to individual body types hence being more potent as a result.
What’s Included in EMW’s TCM Confinement Herbal Package
EMW personalised TCM confinement herbal package typically include:
- A personalised TCM confinement consultation: This consultation is used to assess the mother’s individual needs and develop a personalized treatment plan. The consultation is typically conducted at weeks 32-36 of pregnancy, so that we can get a good understanding of the mother’s overall health and constitution, as well as any specific concerns she may have.
- 28 days of personalized TCM herbs: The mother will be prescribed a personalized herbal formula to help her recover and promote her overall health for all 28 days of confinement. The herbal formula will be tailored to the mother’s individual needs, based on her body constitution and any specific postpartum concerns she may have. The herbs will be vacuum-packed and delivered to the mother’s doorstep, for her convenience.
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Herbs Brewing Instructions
28 Day Confinement Herbal Tea
During TCM confinement, hydration and warmth are vital for restoring Qi and blood. At EMW TCM, we formulate confinement teas that gently replenish energy, warm the body, and calm emotions.
Our TCM confinement tea blends are handcrafted by our physicians to support:
Blood and Qi replenishment: using Dang Shen (Codonopsis), Hong Zao (Red Dates), and Gou Qi Zi (Goji Berries)
Digestive recovery: Huang Qi to strengthen the Spleen and aid absorption
Mood balance and sleep support: Long Yan Rou (Longan) to soothe the mind and nourish the Heart
- Physical Strengthening: Du Zhong to strengthen Kidney and lower back
Each sachet is pre-portioned for convenience and safety.
Simply steep in warm water and enjoy throughout the day.
Our TCM confinement tea is caffeine-free, gentle for breastfeeding mothers, and an excellent companion for your daily postpartum nourishment.
This will be purchased separately from Personalised Confinement Herbal Package.
TCM Confinement Herbal Bath
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, postpartum women are considered vulnerable to cold invasion. A TCM confinement herbal bath helps expel cold, improve blood circulation, and relieve muscle tension.
At EMW TCM Singapore, our herbal bath formula is carefully balanced to restore warmth while being safe and soothing for new mothers.
Key Benefits of Our TCM Confinement Herbal Bath:
- Promotes blood flow and helps discharge residual lochia
- Warms the body to prevent postpartum chills and joint pain
- Relaxes tired muscles and alleviates neck or back aches
- Gently cleanses without drying or irritating the skin
Main Herbal Ingredient:
Ai Ye (Mugwort Leaf) which supports the body’s natural healing by unblocking meridians and harmonising blood circulation.
How to Use the EMW Herbal Bath:
- Boil the pre-packed herbal sachet in 2–3 litres of water for 15 minutes.
- Pour into a basin or bathtub and mix with warm water (around 40 °C).
- Soak or sponge-bathe for 10–15 minutes daily.
- Keep the body warm and dry immediately after bathing.
Our confinement bath can also be used for hand or foot soaking to relieve swelling or stiffness.
With Our Partners During 28 Days: Confinement Soups
The 28-Day Personalised Confinement Herbs & Soup Program by Maternity Angels, developed in collaboration with EMW TCM Physicians, is a premium, evidence-informed postpartum recovery solution designed to support a mother’s healing, nourishment, and vitality after childbirth.
This personalised confinement program begins with a one-to-one consultation with an experienced EMW Physician, ensuring that your herbs and soups are tailored to your individual constitution, delivery type (natural birth or C-section), and postpartum recovery needs. Every detail is customised to support blood replenishment, uterine recovery, digestion, and long-term maternal wellbeing.
Each mother receives a fully personalised confinement soup recipe, created using premium-grade Chinese herbs traditionally used to support postpartum recovery, circulation, and lactation. The program includes 28 days of carefully prepared confinement soup, making daily nourishment simple and consistent during the critical postpartum period.
Beyond nutrition, this program is thoughtfully designed for modern families. It comes with reusable drawers for organised storage of baby essentials, as well as an environmentally friendly cotton tote bag, making it both practical and sustainable.
What’s Included:
Consultation with a certified EMW TCM Physician
Fully personalised confinement menu
Personalised confinement soup recipe
Premium quality Chinese herbs
28 days of confinement soup
Reusable drawers for baby item storage
Eco-friendly cotton tote bag
Perfect for Singapore mothers looking for confinement soups instead of confinement herbs that may not be palpable for mummies that don’t take TCM frequently.
With Our Partners During 28 Days: Confinement Meals
At Maternity Angels, the Confinement Food Menu is curated by EMW TCM physicians, dietician, and a team of professional chefs. While keeping it real within the parameters of TCM and dieticians, they transform traditional confinement ingredients into international dishes that focus on recovery, lactation and all-round wellness.
Our confinement meal includes a serving of desert (Lunch), appetizer (Dinner), meat, vegetable, double-boiled soup, staple and Red Dates Tea.
Most soups provided with their meals are double boiled. The Double boiling technique is a slow and gentle process which better extract the flavour, essence and nutrients of the ingredients and offers maximum benefit to post-partum mummy for their recovery.
Their dishes are lactation friendly, with ingredients like green papaya, salmon, spinach and broccoli.
With Our Partners During 28 Days: Confinement Care
At Confinement Angels, they believe that the journey of motherhood is a precious time that deserves to be supported with the utmost care and professionalism.
With over 10 years of experience providing expert confinement nanny services, they have built a strong reputation for delivering personalised, compassionate care for both mothers and newborns.
Their team of highly trained nannies is dedicated to ensuring that you and your baby receive the best possible support during this important recovery period.
At Confinement Angels, they understand that your family deserves the very best care. This is why they invest in in-house training for all their nannies to ensure they meet their high standards. Each nanny undergoes a comprehensive training program that includes infant care, postpartum wellness practices, and best safety protocols, ensuring that they are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge before they are assigned to assist any family.
They take professionalism very seriously at Confinement Angels. From the moment you contact them, you will experience a high level of service and care. Their nannies are not only skilled but also respectful, dedicated, and compassionate. They understand that every mother’s needs are unique, and they work hard to ensure that both mothers and babies receive the individual attention and care they deserve.
Confinement Angels isn’t just a confinement nanny agency. They offer a one-stop solution for all your postpartum needs. Along with expert confinement nanny services, they also provide a comprehensive range of additional services to make your experience even more convenient and supportive.
Beyond 28 Days: Post-Confinement Care
EMW offers post-confinement support with follow-up consultations and booster herbal formulas to stabilise energy and hormonal balance， bridging the gap between recovery and full vitality.
After confinement, many mothers experience lingering fatigue, neck and shoulder tightness, or fluid retention. Our postpartum acupressure therapy focuses on regulating Qi and blood circulation, releasing muscle tension, and strengthening the lower back and abdomen.
Benefits include:
- Alleviating water retention and body aches
- Improving sleep and energy
- Enhancing mood and emotional stability
- Supporting natural hormone balance
Each session is tailored to your body’s needs, gentle yet effective in helping you feel grounded, energised, and emotionally centred.
Our Lactation Treatment is uniquely designed and led by a certified International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who is also a registered TCM physician.
This integrative care merges clinical lactation science with the TCM perspective on meridians and organ balance.
We support mothers who face:
- Engorgement or blocked ducts
- Insufficient milk flow
- Painful or uneven milk production
- Mastitis and inflammation
- Postpartum fatigue affecting lactation
Our treatment combines breast acupressure and acupuncture(if needed), encouraging milk flow naturally while reducing inflammation and discomfort.
Safe, non-invasive, and customised for each mother’s recovery stage.
“Many mothers notice better milk flow and lighter breasts after one or two sessions, along with improved energy and mood.”
Our pediatric acupressure, also known as Pediatric Tuina, uses light, rhythmic strokes on specific meridians to support your baby’s natural development.
Recommended for infants and young children, it helps:
- Relieve colic, gas, and digestive discomfort
- Strengthen immunity and reduce frequency of coughs or flu
- Improve sleep quality and appetite
- Support overall growth and emotional calmness
Each session is gentle, non-invasive, and parent-inclusive, our physicians guide you on simple techniques to continue at home, enhancing parent–child bonding.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. When should I start TCM confinement herbs?
Usually from Day 4 after childbirth, once you can tolerate warm liquids upon hospital discharge. For C-section mothers, it is the same.
2. Is EMW’s confinement package safe for breastfeeding?
Yes. All formulas are physician-approved and free from strong or milk-suppressing herbs.
3. What if I planned a C-section?
Your formula will be adjusted to include herbs that reduce swelling, support scar healing, and replenish Qi without overstimulation.
4. How do I prepare the herbs?
Our herbs come in ready-to-brew sachets, instructions here.
5. Can I still eat confinement food from my caterer?
Yes. Our herbs are complementary and tailored not to clash with common confinement recipes.
6. Is the package suitable for vegetarians?
Yes they are.
7. How is this different from pre-packed herbs?
Unlike generic boxes, our herbs are prescribed after a medical assessment, ensuring precise balance of warmth, nourishment, and safety.
8. Can I purchase without seeing a physician?
A brief consultation is required to ensure safety and best results.
TCM Confinement 101
TCM Lactation
We do pre-delivery lactation consultation at week 37-39 which includes a detailed breast examination, 1-to-1 personalised guidance on latching, positioning techniques and discussion of common concerns, and a post-delivery lactation consultation to addresses major lactation concerns like low milk supply, engorgement, poor letdown, nipple pain/bruising with the help of TCM acupressure together with other treatments.
TCM Confinement Herbs
EMW Personalised Confinement Herbal Package It is designed to be brewed into a decoction and to be drank separately outside of meals. Therefore, while confinement herbal soups are catered more towards general body constitution while our Herbal Package herbs are more catered to individual body types hence being more potent as a result.
TCM Postartum Acupressure
A 2018 study published in The Journal of Maternal Health found that postpartum massage enhances oxytocin release, which helps with uterine contractions, reduces swelling, and supports emotional well-being. Our specialized EMW TCM postnatal massage Singapore program integrates these evidence-based benefits to ensure a smoother recovery journey for new mothers.
How TCM Supports Postpartum Recovery
At EMW TCM Singapore, we see postpartum care not only as physical healing but also as emotional restoration. Our physicians integrate TCM acupressure, moxibustion acupuncture, and herbal medicine in TCM Confinement Singapore care to help mothers regain balance, replenish energy, and prevent long-term health issues.
EMW TCM Clinics
Scotts Medical Centre Branch
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Singapore 228210
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Singapore 238869
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Our Physicians
Principal TCM Physician
- M.Med(TCM Gynaecology)
- B.Sc(Hons) Biomedical Sciences
- Dip. Naturopath
- Ayurvedic Therapist(500hrs)
- Registered TCM Physician (Singapore MOH)
Senior TCM Physician
- M.Med(TCM Acupuncture & Moxibustion)
- B.Sc(Hons) Biomedical Sciences
- Certified Aromatherapist
- Registered TCM Physician (Singapore MOH)
TCM Physician
- M.Med(TCM Gynaecology)
- B.Sc(Hons) Biomedical Sciences
- Registered TCM Physician (Singapore MOH)
TCM Physician
- B.Med(TCM)
- B.Sc(Hons) Biomedical Sciences
- International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
- Registered TCM Physician (Singapore MOH)