Can Traditional Chinese Medicine treat postpartum diseases? 6 ways to help you

1. Treatment of postpartum disease with Chinese herbal decoction

Astragalus and Cinnamon Twig Five Ingredients Decoction has the effects of nourishing blood and replenishing qi, warming the meridians and dredging the collaterals. Angelica sinensis, Chuanxiong and Millettia reticulata can be added to nourish blood and dredge the collaterals. Danggui Sini Decoction warms the meridians and dispels cold, nourishes blood and unclogs meridians. It is effective for blood deficiency, cold syncope, and cold hands and feet. In addition, you can also use medicinal herbs such as Eucommia ulmoides and Viscum album to make soup as a dietary therapy.

2. Foot bath to treat postpartum diseases

You can use Chinese medicine such as Astragalus, Angelica, Millettia reticulata, Duchu, Viscum album, Achyranthes bidentata, and Cibotium barometz for foot bathing to replenish qi and blood, warm the meridians, and achieve the therapeutic effect. Consult your doctor for specific formulations.

3. Moxibustion for postpartum disease

Cold limbs after childbirth indicate weak Qi and blood, and Qi and blood have two major characteristics: "flow when encountering warmth, and coagulate when encountering cold". Moxibustion therapy uses the warm stimulation of moxa fire to the meridian acupoints to make Qi and blood flow, attack evil with fire, warm the meridians and dispel cold evil. However, you need to master the method under the guidance of a doctor, find the acupoints correctly, and prevent burning of the skin.

4. Treating postpartum diseases with ear acupuncture

"The ears are where the main meridians gather," and the ears are connected to the meridians throughout the body. Auricular acupoint therapy uses round materials such as medicines and magnetic beads to be applied to the ear acupoints. By stimulating the ear acupoints, radioactive induction is produced, which radiates shallowly along the meridians, thereby unblocking the meridians and circulating qi and blood.

5. One of the folk remedies for treating postpartum diseases: soaking black ants in wine

Ingredients: 12 grams of non-toxic large black ants. 18 qian each of Ganoderma lucidum and wolfberry. The liquor is soaked in sealed jars and stored in cellars for more than 100 years until the liquor turns into an amber liquid. Take 5 cents each time.

Method: After soaking in wine for ten minutes, drink once on an empty stomach in the afternoon and evening.

Effect: It can significantly improve the symptoms of cold hands and feet, complexion, spirit, sleep, limb joint pain and numbness for some new mothers.

6. Recipe for postpartum disease: Fresh ginger and brown sugar soup

Ingredients: Take 10 grams of ginger and 15 grams of brown sugar.

Method: Mash the ginger into ginger paste and dissolve the brown sugar in water. Then mix the ginger paste evenly and simmer it into a soup over low heat. Take it continuously in the morning, noon and evening.

Function: Specially used to treat postpartum diseases such as postpartum dizziness and postpartum headache.