Postpartum Repair Series Ancient Concepts of Postpartum Disease Ancient women also had to give birth to children, so what troubles would they encounter after giving birth? BaoMa happened to read the famous classical medical book “The Essentials of the Golden Chamber? The “pulse evidence and treatment of postpartum diseases of women”, which summarizes the postpartum disease: new women have three diseases, one is sick spasm, the second is sick Yuzhao, the third is difficult to stool. What does it mean? (a) Spasm: Spasm means cramps. Maternity itself blood deficiency and liver is easy to cramp, coupled with the wind to take advantage of the weakness, external wind and internal wind mixed together, the mother is more likely to have cramps, convulsions and other symptoms. Therefore, it is important to avoid external winds during menstruation. (ii) Yulong: “shower cap”? Not also! Postpartum can not be cold, this time if the cold, or contact with cold things more, easy to dizziness and swelling, and even vertigo shock, and easy to leave long-term dizziness and headache, Yang Qi is inhibited, Yu in the body and can not be born, this “YuYao” also. (iii) Difficulty in bowel movement: The whole production process consumes a lot of blood and sweat, which is called “dead blood and dead yin” in Chinese medicine, and sweat and blood have the same origin, so the whole blood and fluid is less, so the bowel movement is easy to be dry and knotty. At this time, you can’t use laxative and diarrhea medicine. However, the mother thinks, compared with the ancient women, in the material conditions of modern women to be much happier, needless to say dietary regimen, in the past, the poor family women give birth to no quilt cover, are made of straw bedding, in the sunny days when the straw to sunbathe, the maternal general straw cover a little thicker, so it is called the grass mat period, the puerperal period. The post-partum body is very poor, coupled with poor conditions, the wind-cold evil can easily take advantage of the situation. Modern maternal conditions are good, the chances of wind-cold greatly reduced.