How to Use Cabbage Leaves on Breasts
Researchers have found the cabbage leaf has properties that can reduce pain and swelling.Here’s what you need to know about how it works and the steps to follow to use cabbage leaves on your breasts.
Step-by-Step Guide
Cold cabbage leaves are soothing. Here’s how to use cabbage leaves to relieve pain when your breasts are sore from engorgement.
Tips for Using Cabbage Leaves
If you are still breastfeeding or pumping for your child, and just want to use cabbage leaves to help decrease breast swelling and relieve breast engorgement, be careful not to overdo it. Once you notice your breasts are feeling better, and the swelling has gone down, stop using the cabbage on your breast.
Maintain Healthy Milk Supply
While the use of cold compresses or cold cabbage leaves does help to lessen breast swelling and engorgement, it can also lower your milk supply. If you continue to use cold cabbage leaves on your breasts after you relieve the swelling and engorgement, it’s possible to end up with a greater decrease in your breast milk supply than you were expecting.
Use Cabbage Leaves for Weaning
If you’re weaning your baby or you want to dry up your breast milk and suppress lactation altogether, you don’t have to worry about the cabbage leaves treatment causing a low breast milk supply. You can continue to use the cabbage leaves on your breasts for as long as they are helpful.
