Patients with weak qi and blood after childbirth can take medicines such as Angelica sinensis, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng and Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata under the guidance of a physician’s diagnosis.
Angelica sinensis is sweet, pungent, warm in nature and belongs to the liver, heart and spleen meridians. It can tonify blood and activate blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain (regulating menstruation and relieving menstrual pain), moisten the intestines and pass stools, and it can be used to treat women’s postpartum intestinal dryness and constipation resulting from blood and fluid deficiency. Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not clear.
Codonopsis pilosula is sweet in taste, flat in nature and belongs to the spleen and lung meridians, it can tonify the spleen and lungs (replenish the spleen and lungs), nourish blood and promote the production of fluids, and is effective in treating conditions such as yellowish color, weakness of the limbs, lethargy, dizziness and palpitation (accelerated heartbeat often accompanied by panic attacks) due to deficiency of qi and blood. This drug should not be used together with Veratrum, and should not be used by those with solid or hot symptoms. Its adverse effects are not clear.
Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata is sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature and belongs to the liver and kidney meridians, it can nourish blood, nourish yin, benefit essence and fill in the marrow, and can be used together with Radix Angelicae Sinensis to treat blood deficiency. Its adverse effects and contraindications are not clear.
Not all postpartum patients are suitable for taking the above drugs, the combination and use of traditional Chinese medicine is recommended under the guidance of a physician to identify the evidence, and should not be used on their own to prevent adverse effects.