”Postpartum rheumatism” refers to a condition in which women experience pain, soreness, numbness, fear of cold and wind in their limbs and trunk (or head) within 100 days after giving birth due to external evil. In the rheumatology clinic, I often encounter such a category of female patients seeking medical treatment, with complaints of joint and muscle pain, fear of cold, fear of wind, etc., but no positive signs on physical examination and no abnormalities in laboratory tests, so it is difficult to make a clear diagnosis, and the application of painkillers is not effective. When you go to see a Western doctor, the doctor is confused and thinks you are not sick. Often, the patient is in pain and the doctor is helpless. Some people are diagnosed with “fibromyalgia syndrome”, but there is no effective treatment. Some patients are misdiagnosed with other rheumatic immune diseases and are treated with slow-acting drugs (immunosuppressants), which are not only ineffective but also cause more discomfort due to the adverse effects of the drugs. Since these patients cannot be diagnosed and treated according to modern medical theory, they are often recommended to our hospital for Chinese medicine treatment. Summing up years of clinical experience, the treatment of postpartum rheumatism by Chinese medicine is very effective and can be completely cured. The clinical performance characteristics of postpartum rheumatism: 1, can have the whole body muscle and joint pain, pain location is variable, pain walking string; there are mainly joint muscle pain, the site is relatively fixed, visible in the shoulder, waist, back or one limb or several joint pain as the main performance; there are limbs or one limb or a limb heavy, sore, swollen, fear of cold as the main performance. There can also be pain, soreness and sinking, and site walking at the same time. More often, the fear of wind and cold is the main manifestation, only mild pain. 2, patients often want to add more clothes to prevent wind and cold, and even wear sweaters and autumn clothes in summer, and even some patients wear winter clothes in summer; some people are sensitive to wind to a degree that is incomprehensible to the general public, and are misunderstood as a mental symptom. These people are often accompanied by excessive sweating, and the more they sweat, the more they are afraid of the wind, and the more they add clothes and blankets, the more they sweat, forming a vicious circle. There are also people who are afraid of wind and cold, but no obvious sweating, only self-consciousness of the external wind or fear of wind in the joints, the effect of adding more clothes and blankets is not obvious. There are people who are only afraid of cold and not afraid of wind, and there are also people who are only afraid of wind and not obviously afraid of cold. 3, no joint swelling and joint dysfunction. Postpartum rheumatism patients with pain even if very heavy, very painful, but no joint function is limited, just pain, no joint swelling, such as joint swelling can not be diagnosed as postpartum rheumatic pain, should be further examined for reasons. 4.The pain can be in any part, such as headache, lumbago, shoulder pain, heel pain, pain in one side or one limb, face, teeth, skin, muscles, joints. 5.Often accompanied by some other symptoms such as spontaneous sweating, night sweats, weakness, shortness of breath, palpitations, insomnia, easy to repeatedly catch a cold, abdominal distension, numbness of the limbs, dizziness and tinnitus, etc. 6.Symptoms are relieved by heat, and aggravated by cold and wind or exertion (sitting for a long time to breastfeed, holding babies, and doing housework). 7, to the hospital to draw blood test examination is not abnormal. The onset of postpartum rheumatism can generally find the cause, there are several common: 1, there are obvious causes: air conditioning, electric fans, blowing, washing, exertion (breastfeeding, baby care), abortion after induction of labor is not well rested. Careless living, washing is too cold, the thickness of clothes and blankets is not appropriate, sleeping and blowing wind, living in a humid place; or summer indoor air conditioning, cold air, electric fan improper use, by the wind, cold, damp evil invasion, evil paralysis of the meridians and the onset of disease. 2, after the abortion do not pay attention to rest, some of the influence of Westerners, do not pay attention to the postpartum, post-abortion recuperation. Some young people in order to maintain physical shape after delivery premature inappropriate exercise, in pursuit of beauty, after delivery do not pay attention to warmth, wearing too little; someone after delivery prematurely in a lower temperature environment to work, and so on. The older women, over 35 years old, or over 40 years old to give birth to two children, because the age has been over 35 years old, the kidney gas began to deficiency, postpartum injury to the blood, the relationship between the physique, the ability to resist external evil decreased significantly, such people as the first child is excessive care of the baby and ignore their own maintenance, such as the second child, and often to twenty years old when the production of the first child experience does not care, forget the difference between the two production age physique, ignore the postpartum The disease is caused by recuperation and warmth. 3, accompanied by postpartum depression and anxiety: modern young people, emotional vulnerability, poor heart tolerance, the life environment changes can not adapt in time, once the physical discomfort, excessive mental tension, excessive thinking caused by depression / anxiety, the disease is getting heavier, and finally even affect normal life and work.