Thai traditional knowledge has had an important and large role in health care from the ancient past and is now a
part of everyday life. Traditional knowledge comes from the local awareness of the surrounding environment,
trial and error and inheritance of knowledge from the past. The care of postpartum mothers is one further aspect
of health culture that has been developed from the wisdom of ancient Thailand and its neighboring countries.
The postpartum period is the period after labor for about six to eight weeks. This period is divided into the first
high-risk twenty-four hours after labor and the period from twenty-four hours to six to eight weeks after labor.
Local wisdom includes the belief that heat cures tiredness, improves body temperature and blood circulation.
There is also nutritional advice. The traditional knowledge aims to return the body to its original state, with the
exception of the breasts and mental attitude to motherhood. It is thus necessary for the mother to receive help
from the family so that she may smoothly pass through the initial six to eight weeks after labor (Puabradeut,
2009).