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Background: Labor pain is a complex phenomenon in terms of psychological, emotional and physical, giving a detrimental effect on the mother and fetus. Acute labor pain worsens a womans mood. Primipara has a more severe level of pain that increases the incidence of caesria (SC) 22% compared to multiparas, resulting in uterine muscle not being well coordinated, triggering prolonged labor and serious side effects for the mother of intra-partum infection, uterine tears, pelvic floor muscle injury, pathological ring retraction while in the fetus results in sucedeneum headaches and fetal head molasses. Subjects and methods: This is a systematic review. The dependent variable was labor pain and the independent variable was moxibustion of LI4 SP6 and back massage (Slow Stroke Back Massage). Literary sources include Google Scholar, Proquest, and Direct Science. Key words for this research are Moxibustion, back massage and labor pain. Inclusion criteria were reviews, systematic reviews, clinical reviews and guidelines. After the review process, ten articles were included in this review. Results: moxibustion and back massage can be used as non-medical therapies to reduce labor pain in the first stage. It provides a relaxing and comforting effect. Conclusion: Interventions for moxibustion and back massage can be used as non-medical therapies to reduce labor pain in the first stage.