What is anemia? Early treatment when symptoms are detected

Anemia can cause malnutrition, poor digestion, dizziness, pale complexion, and women may also experience symptoms of irregular menstruation. It should be treated in a timely manner. Traditional Chinese medicine is very effective in treating anemia, and through dialectical treatment, the body can be restored to a healthy state.

1. Symptoms and Signs

1. Those with picky eating habits, anorexia, maldigestion, malnutrition, various bleeding conditions, hookworm disease, or a history of contact with harmful physical and chemical factors, drugs, etc.; or those who are pregnant, postpartum women, infants, etc.

2. Symptoms include dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, fatigue, loss of appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea, and menstrual disorders.

3. Pale or sallow complexion, pale lips and eyelids, pale and fat tongue or shiny tongue without coating, dry and wrinkled skin, dry and easy-to-fall hair, pale, flat or inverted nails; or jaundice, etc.

4. Blood examination shows that the red blood cell and hemoglobin levels are more than 10% lower than the normal level (the general red blood cell count of adults is <4.0×1012/L for males and <3.5×1012/L for females; hemoglobin is <120G/L for males and <105G/L for females), but the white blood cells and platelets are normal. The bone marrow showed changes of proliferative anemia.

2. Pathological Causes

Hemolysis may occur due to chronic blood loss or stimulation from evil toxins; weak spleen and stomach in the middle jiao, or improper diet, which damages the spleen and stomach. The stomach is weak and cannot receive water and grain normally, while the spleen is weak and cannot transport and transform the essence of water and grain, resulting in insufficient nutrient qi and lack of blood production; infestation of ascaris or hookworms, or serious and long-term illness, lack of conditioning, and day-by-day depletion of qi and blood; inadequate congenital endowment, or excessive worry and thought, which leads to loss of essence and blood, and secret depletion of yin blood, all of which can cause blood labor.

3. Medication

1. Spleen deficiency and blood deficiency syndrome

Symptoms: fatigue, sallow complexion, poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools, dizziness, scanty menstruation in women, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish the spleen and blood.

Main prescription: Guishao Liujunzi Decoction (Angelica, White Peony Root, Ginseng, Atractylodes, Poria, Licorice, Tangerine Peel, and Processed Pinellia).

Additions and subtractions: Astragalus, placenta, and donkey-hide gelatin can be added; for abdominal distension and loose stools, add Magnolia officinalis, Chinese yam, and Coix seed.

2. Qi and blood deficiency syndrome

Symptoms: dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, fatigue, shortness of breath, laziness to speak, numbness of limbs or twitching pupils, pale or sallow complexion, pale lips and nails, pale tongue, scanty coating, and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish Qi and blood.

Main recipe: Bazhen Decoction (ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, licorice, Angelica sinensis, white peony root, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Ligusticum chuanxiong).

Add or subtract: Astragalus, placenta, and donkey-hide gelatin can be added; if there is bleeding, add palm charcoal.