Treatment of postpartum rheumatism

  Postpartum rheumatism, also known as “menstrual disease”, is caused by postpartum maternal Qi and blood deficiency, unable to resist external evil, wind, cold, damp and other pathogenic evil attacking the meridians, paralyzing the flow of Qi and blood, which is clinically seen in many muscles and joints throughout the body, such as cold, wind, pain, soreness, heaviness, numbness and other symptoms. Since postpartum rheumatism has no specific physical and chemical examination, its clinical manifestations are more subjective to the patient’s own feelings, so there is no effective treatment method for this disease in Western medicine, while Chinese medicine has recorded this disease as early as the Tang Dynasty and has rich experience in treatment. Generally speaking, postpartum rheumatism is treated by a combination of internal and external treatment.  For patients with milder postpartum rheumatism, such as only part of the body’s joints and muscles are afraid of cold and wind, and pain is not obvious, because their internal qi and blood is still sufficient, the external treatment method can be used alone to promote the evil out. For example, Chinese herbs that can warm the meridians and disperse cold, dispel wind and dampness, and relieve pain can be selected, such as mugwort, translucent herb, wei ling xian, dry ginger, fenugreek, chicken blood vine, safflower, etc., to carry out Chinese herbal infusion, Chinese herbal hot compress, Chinese herbal fumigation and other treatments, or external treatments such as acupuncture and moxibustion can be used to stimulate yang energy in the body and disperse wind, cold and dampness and other evil qi in the body. For patients with heavy postpartum rheumatism, the efficacy of external treatment alone is limited. It is necessary to take oral medication under the guidance of a doctor to support the body’s qi and blood to fundamentally increase the body’s ability to resist evil, and then cooperate with external treatment methods to promote evil out, so as to treat both the symptoms and the root cause.  For patients with a long history of postpartum rheumatism, in addition to insisting on a combination of internal and external treatment, you can also perform acupressure treatment in the three volt days every year, that is, “winter and summer treatment”. Because the three volt days is the highest temperature of the year, Yang is very strong, when the Yang in the body is also in the most abundant state, this time for acupuncture point compress treatment is the easiest to stimulate acupuncture points, stimulate the meridian gas, is the best period of warming Yang, dispel the cold evil. Therefore, postpartum rheumatism patients in the three volt days for acupressure treatment, can prevent the disease in the winter attack or aggravation, every year adhere to the treatment, can get rid of the body of sinking cold chronic disease, help control the further development of the disease. In addition, for patients with a long history of postpartum rheumatism, you can also use medicinal food treatment. Because of the homology of medicine and food, many foods are also medicines, such as millet, barley, yam, Chinese wolfberry, red dates, pig liver, black chicken, cinnamon, etc., which can be boiled in porridge, soup, making medicinal wine, etc., in the daily diet for treatment.  In the treatment of postpartum rheumatism, patients also need to pay attention to the persistence of the treatment. The treatment of postpartum rheumatism is a long process, its treatment period is long, the effect is slow, it needs to fundamentally adjust the patient’s constitution and enhance the ability to resist external evil, so whether the treatment can be adhered to determines the prognosis of the disease.