Blood is the lifeblood

Chapter 25 Finding the key to health——Women should replenish Qi and blood (2)
This became a mystery. Later, a respected old expert told her that it was because she changed her job and lifestyle that infertility disappeared automatically.

The expert's explanation is as follows: because office women spend most of their working hours in a sitting state, and at the same time lack of exercise, they cause qi and blood circulation disorders and severe dysmenorrhea; Sedentary and physical relationship, the formation of endometriosis, these are the reasons for infertility.

The record of the disease name of female infertility in traditional Chinese medicine was first seen in "Su Wen·Gu Kong Lun": "The governor vessel is a disease...women are infertile." It is divided into "no birth" and "no child" (referring to primary Infertility) and "broken threads" (referring to secondary infertility).

Pregnancy is a complex physiological process. It is pointed out in "Su Wen·Ancient Innocence Theory" that when a woman reaches the age of 14, her kidney qi gradually becomes stronger. Under the stimulation of the kidney, Tiangui, a yin essence substance that promotes human growth and development, is produced, and Gradually mature and become the basic substance of conception.When Chong and Ren meridians are full of qi and blood and communicate with each other, menstruation will occur, and menstruation will occur on time, and the fertility will be obtained.When a man and a woman "strive together and form together", a new life begins.If any of the above links is abnormal, it can lead to pregnancy disorders.

Dysfunction of viscera, qi and blood, and meridians can cause impediment to conception.Among the viscera, the liver, spleen, and kidney are most closely related, and the kidney is the root.Among the meridians, the three extraordinary meridians of Chong, Ren, and Du are the most important.Since the kidney stores essence and governs reproduction, the production of Tiangui depends on the kidney; the kidney, together with the Chong and Ren channels, is responsible for the regulation of menstruation; therefore, the kidney-Tiangui-Chongren-uterine axis is formed to regulate the reproductive process.Therefore, the etiology and pathogenesis of infertility is based on kidney deficiency.The causes of kidney deficiency are ferritic kidney deficiency and insufficient endowment; or careless intercourse, which damages the kidney essence; or prolonged illness and prolific birth damages the kidney, etc.The spleen is the foundation of the acquired constitution, the source of essence and blood biochemistry, and deficiency of the spleen leads to infertility due to passive biochemistry.Women take the liver as the innate foundation, the liver stores blood, and it also plays a major role in regulation and catharsis. Abnormal liver function can also lead to infertility.Therefore, the loss of coordination of the functions of the liver, spleen and kidney has become the basic cause of infertility.

The treatment of infertility is based on menstruation regulation, which is known as "the seeds of menstruation regulation" in traditional Chinese medicine.Specifically, there are treatment methods such as tonifying the kidney, strengthening the spleen, soothing the liver, removing blood stasis, removing dampness, and dredging collaterals. Clinically, the above methods should be used cautiously and appropriately according to symptoms and syndrome differentiation.The common syndrome types and treatment methods are summarized as follows.

1. Liver and kidney yin deficiency type

Reason: Liver stores blood, kidney stores essence, deficiency of liver and kidney yin leads to insufficient essence and blood, emptiness of blood sea, resulting in infertility.

Symptoms: infertility, premenstrual period, heavy color and dark color, dizziness, tinnitus, backache and fatigue.Red and dry tongue, thready pulse.

Therapeutic principle: It is suitable to nourish the liver and kidney, tonify Chong Ren.

2. Spleen and kidney yang deficiency type

Reasons: Congenital deficiency of kidney qi, acquired weakness of temper, deficiency of both essence and blood, deficiency of Chong and Ren, inability to gather essence and become pregnant.

Symptoms: infertility, late menstruation, less quantity, pale color, apathy, backache and fatigue, less appetite and loose stool, clear and long urine.Pale tongue, deep and thready pulse.

Therapeutic principles: It is appropriate to invigorate the spleen and invigorate qi, warm the kidney and support yang.

3. Weak blood type

Cause: Deficiency of blood in fertile body or blood loss due to illness, resulting in deficiency of Qi and blood, failure of Chong Ren blood and inability to conceive.

Symptoms: infertility, menorrhagia, pale red, pale complexion, dizziness, chest tightness and palpitation, anorexia and fatigue.Pale tongue, thin and weak pulse.

Therapeutic principles: It is suitable to invigorate qi and generate blood, and regulate menstruation seeds.

4. Liver Depression and Kidney Deficiency

Reason: The liver governs catharsis and can regulate blood volume throughout the body, the kidney governs reproduction, and liver depression and kidney deficiency lead to infertility.

Symptoms: infertility, menstrual disorders, depression and irritability, chest tightness and hypotension, waist soreness and knee weakness.Thin fur, stringy and thready pulse.

Therapeutic principle: Shugan tonifies kidney.

5. Blood stasis type

Reasons: usually stagnation of qi, qi stagnation and blood stagnation, blood stasis obstructing collaterals, chongren and obstruction, hindering the meeting of sperm and eggs.

Symptoms: Infertility, abdominal pain during menstruation, poor menstruation, dark purple color, blood clots, purple tongue, thready pulse.

Therapeutic principle: promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals, supplemented by nourishing kidney.

6. Phlegm-damp type

Causes: Obese body with phlegm and dampness, ointment obstructing collaterals, poor movement of Qi, obstruction of Chong and Ren and infertility.

Symptoms: infertility, oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea, sticky vaginal discharge, sticky phlegm in the throat, chest tightness and general nausea, poor appetite, obesity, and laziness in movement.The tongue is fat and the coating is greasy, and the pulse is wet and slippery.

Treatment principles: invigorate the spleen and dry dampness, resolve phlegm and regulate menstruation.

7. Damp heat betting type

Cause: Damp-heat pathogens invade the lower burner.Lead to blood stagnation, cell network obstruction and infertility.

Symptoms: Infertility, fever, lower abdominal pain, aggravated menstruation, dark red color with multi-colored yellow.Yellow greasy fur, red tongue, stringy pulse.

Therapeutic principles: clearing heat, promoting dampness and dredging collaterals.

The above symptoms only illustrate the principle of treatment. As for the treatment method, it varies from person to person, and it is better to leave it to the doctor to prescribe the right medicine.

The basic skills of Qi and blood conditioning for pre-pregnancy mothers

[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] Seeds nourish the body first, and the body must first regulate Qi and blood.Whether a woman's qi and blood state is good or not before conception determines the baby's innate physique and is the guarantee for the baby's strength.

In order to give birth to a healthy baby, many women of childbearing age choose to do conditioning before they are ready to conceive.For women who are preparing for pregnancy, it is a good choice to listen to the advice of Chinese medicine during the pregnancy preparation stage. If you choose Chinese medicine for pre-pregnancy conditioning, it is a good choice.Because compared with Western medicine, Chinese medicine pays more attention to the conditioning of the whole body.

Xiao Huang is planning to have a baby, but the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has become a little tense recently because of the problem of dressing.Xiao Huang is a beauty-loving woman. Although she is married, she still wears a halter dress and a skirt in winter like a girl.Normally, the mother-in-law is very open-minded and will not interfere in the "internal affairs" of the daughter-in-law, but when she is about to have a baby, the mother-in-law starts to interfere, because the mother-in-law is a retired doctor. If you catch cold, you should especially pay attention to keeping your lower body warm, such as your feet and abdomen.Only when the body is warm can the qi and blood flow smoothly and the pregnancy can be carried out smoothly.

Why does the mother-in-law care so much about Xiao Huang's "warmth" before pregnancy?Because there is a saying in Chinese medicine that the palace is cold and infertile.The uterus is like a greenhouse for the fetus. If the uterus is cold, the fetus will not be able to grow.In order to prevent palace cold, women should pay special attention to keeping the lower abdomen warm.Especially women who work in an air-conditioned environment, and those who often sit still, should pay more attention to keeping the abdomen and lower body warm.

In fact, the essence of traditional Chinese medicine’s emphasis on warming the palace is to warm the qi and blood, because Chinese medicine believes that the mechanism of conception depends on vigorous kidney qi, sufficient true yin, harmonious qi and blood, and smooth veins.Because the five internal organs of the human body affect each other pathologically, they belong to the relationship of mutual generation and mutual restraint. For example, stagnation of liver and qi will lead to spleen deficiency, and problems in one organ will cause problems in other organs.Therefore, in the pre-pregnancy preparations, Chinese medicine pays great attention to the conditioning of the whole body, rather than targeting a certain organ.However, because the functions of the kidney, liver, and spleen have the greatest impact on women's qi and blood, more attention should be paid to pre-pregnancy conditioning.

1. Kidney conditioning
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the kidney governs reproduction. If the function of the kidney is damaged, it will affect conception, and even lead to infertility or miscarriage.

Therapeutic Recipe: Fried Chicken with Chives
Raw materials: 500 grams of leek, 100 grams of chicken, 15 grams of dried shrimp

Method: Wash the leeks, cut them into small pieces, heat the pot, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil, fry the leeks, chicken and dried shrimps together, add a little salt.

Efficacy: Warm the kidney and nourish the liver.

2. Spleen conditioning
The spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, and the lack of blood in the day after tomorrow cannot support the fetus.Therefore, spleen deficiency can cause infertility or miscarriage after pregnancy.

Therapeutic prescription: lentil porridge
Raw materials: 150 grams of rice, 100 grams of lentils

Method: Wash the rice and lentils, bring the water to a boil over high heat, add the lentils and rice, boil, and cook with low heat until the lentils are cooked.

Efficacy: invigorating the spleen and removing dampness.

3. Liver conditioning
The liver and the kidney are of the same origin, insufficient liver blood, or poor circulation of Qi and blood will also affect pregnancy.

Therapeutic prescription: Pork liver and mung bean porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of fresh pork liver, 60 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of rice

Method: Wash the mung beans and rice and put them in the pot, add water to boil, then turn to low heat, cook slowly, when it is half mature, cut the pork liver into strips and put them in the pot, add a little salt after cooking Can.

Efficacy: Nourishing liver and nourishing blood.

Finally, the experts also told women of childbearing age not to be too impatient in dealing with anything, as the result of a big temper would be Qi stagnation.Allowing yourself to maintain a calm attitude at any time and place can help you have a smooth pregnancy.

Qi and Blood Nourishing Countermeasures During Pregnancy
[Qi and Blood Health Supplement] Imbalance of yin and yang in viscera, loss of qi and blood are common phenomena in pregnant women, and sufficient qi and blood are the basis for nourishing the fetus, so we must make preparations to fully nourish qi and blood.

Upset, abdominal pain, restless fetal movement and other symptoms often appear in pregnant women. Pregnancy diseases not only affect the health of pregnant women, but also hinder the development of the fetus, and even lead to miscarriage and miscarriage. This must arouse the full attention of pregnant women and their families.

Xiao Zhao was pregnant for just one month, but she has been sleeping very well, but she suffered from insomnia for several days in a row. At first, she blamed her house for being too close to Huancheng Road, thinking that poor sleep was caused by the noise of vehicles, so she moved I went back to my natal home in the suburbs to recuperate.But even in the quiet suburbs, she still couldn't rest well.In desperation, her husband had no choice but to take her to see a doctor. Since she was pregnant, of course it would be safer to see a doctor.The doctor told her that insomnia cannot be analyzed only from external causes, sometimes the problem lies in herself, for example, she suffers from insomnia during pregnancy.

Insomnia during pregnancy is relatively common clinically, mainly manifested as insufficient sleep time and depth after pregnancy.Because pregnancy is a special physiological process, the internal environment of pregnant women is undergoing special changes all the time. The imbalance of yin and yang in viscera and viscera, and the loss of Qi and blood are common phenomena. Specifically, it can be divided into three aspects: Yin deficiency, Qi stagnation and phlegm retention.These situations will eventually cause the uneasiness of pregnant women, thus causing the appearance of insomnia.

1. Yin loss
The energy and blood of the human body are limited. After pregnancy, the energy and blood are transferred to the fetus, which is bound to be insufficient to maintain the original physical condition. After a long time, it will cause insufficient heart energy and blood, and mental disorders, which will lead to insomnia.At the same time, insufficient effort will cause the mind to be disturbed by virtual fire, which is another reason for insomnia.

2. Qi stagnation
Pregnant women are prone to qi stagnation because of the appearance of the fetus in the womb, which adds an "obstacle" to the movement of the ascending and descending qi.

3. Phlegm
Both phlegm and drink are pathological products caused by body fluid metabolism disorders.Because of the appearance of the fetus in the abdomen, the mechanism of the viscera is ineffective, and the body fluid gathers into phlegm, which disturbs the mind and mind, leading to insomnia.At the same time, qi stagnation and phlegm retention will also interact and affect each other. Qi stagnation causes body fluid to gather into phlegm retention, and phlegm retention will aggravate qi stagnation, making the physical condition of pregnant women in a vicious cycle.

In short, the reason why pregnancy can lead to the appearance of insomnia is inseparable from the special physiological changes of women during this period.Moreover, the later in pregnancy, the larger the fetus, the greater the impact on Qi, blood and energy, and the greater the chance of insomnia symptoms.Therefore, we should pay close attention to it during pregnancy and take corresponding conditioning measures.

1. Patients with blood deficiency

Longan, jujube and other foods can be taken regularly.

Red dates and glutinous rice porridge: 10 red dates, 00 grams of glutinous rice.Regular consumption of porridge has the effect of nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen.

Antai carp porridge: 500 carp (about 30 grams), 50 grams of ramie root, 1500 grams of glutinous rice.Remove the scales and miscellaneous parts of the carp, chop finely, fry the ramie root with 000 ml of water, take [-] ml of juice, remove the residue, add rice and fish to cook porridge, add seasoning, and eat it on an empty stomach.Taking it regularly has the effect of nourishing blood, invigorating spleen and preventing miscarriage.

2. Deficiency and cold patients

You can eat more ginger, mutton, etc. to achieve the purpose of warming yang and relieving pain.

Avoid eating raw and cold melons and fruits, snails, mussels and other bitter and cold things.

Boil eggs with ginseng and mugwort leaves: 10 grams of ginseng, 2 grams of mugwort leaves, and 2 eggs.Use a crock pot, fry slowly over low heat, remove the shell and continue cooking for 30 minutes after the eggs are cooked, drink soup and eat eggs, take 0 dose a day, and take it for [-] days.It has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, warming the palace and preventing miscarriage.

Postpartum less milk needs to replenish blood and smooth Qi
[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] The formation and secretion of milk are affected by many factors, but "milk is formed by Qi and blood", when Qi and blood are strong, milk is naturally abundant.

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