Women sweat more than just during the puerperium, called “postpartum sweating”, and sweating after sleep, and then stop when they wake up, called “postpartum night sweating”. Postpartum spontaneous sweating and night sweating are both common diseases after childbirth, and have been called one of the “two dangers” of the postpartum period by doctors for generations. Generally maternal sweating more than usual, especially after eating, activity or sleep is obvious, in a few days after their own relief, not as a disease theory.
If a week after delivery, without overwork, too thick clothing or fever, but still sweating, or a little activity will sweat more, then it is pathological spontaneous sweating.
According to the theory of Chinese medicine, the spontaneous sweating of pregnant women after childbirth is mostly due to Qi deficiency, often accompanied by fatigue, laziness, lazy speech, the face is not flushed, weak pulse and other manifestations. The treatment should be beneficial to Qi and blood _, solid table to stop sweating, available astragalus, wheat 30 grams each, white peony, angelica 20 grams each, atractylodes 15 grams, wind, roasted licorice 10 grams each, dates (cracked open) 10. Decoction of water 2 times to uniform, morning and evening divided into doses, 1 dose daily. Generally, it can be cured by taking 4-6 doses in a row.
Postpartum night sweat is a pathological phenomenon in which a woman sweats immediately after sleeping and stops sweating after waking up. It is often accompanied by symptoms such as irritability of the five hearts, dryness of the mouth and throat, hot flashes of bone steam, dry stools and yellow urine. Night sweats are caused by Yin deficiency and internal heat. The treatment should be to benefit the qi and nourish the yin, to produce fluid and astringent sweat. Decocted twice with water and taken in the morning and evening, 1 dose daily. Generally, it can be cured with 3 -5 doses.
Ear point pressure pill method
Apply a magnetic therapy patch to the corresponding acupuncture point of the patient’s ear, pressing it for 2-3 minutes each time, 4-5 times/day, changing the patch daily, alternating between the two ears. For qi deficiency, take the points of adrenal gland, lung and endocrine, and for yin deficiency, use the points of Shen Men, San Jiao and Jiaoshen.
Navel patching method
The appropriate drugs are powdered and mixed with honey and egg white to make a cake, which is placed on the umbilicus of the patient and fixed with medical tape for about 4-6 hours, once a day for 10-14 days. In case of Qi deficiency, choose Astragalus, Wu Bei Zi, Fang Feng, Atractylodes, etc., and in case of Yin deficiency, choose Calcined Oyster, Calcined Dragon Bone, White Alum, etc.
Moxibustion method
Moxa stick moxibustion for 5 minutes, once a day for 10-14 days. For Qi deficiency, take the Dazhi/Guanyuan points and use the tonic method; for Yin deficiency, take the Yin and IS points.
Tui Na method
Take their Dazhi, Shen Men, Guan Yuan and Hou Xi points once a day for 30 minutes for 10-14 days.
Medicinal food therapy
Qi deficiency maternal food therapy regimen:
(1) Astragalus and mutton soup: 15 grams of astragalus, 90 grams of mutton, 10 grams of cinnamon meat, 15 grams of Chinese yam. Boil the lamb with boiling water for a few moments, fish out that is soaked in cold water to remove the trespass taste with a casserole to boil the water, put the lamb and three flavors of medicine with the soup, eat seasoned taste, you can drink soup and eat meat.
(2) party ginseng five flavors stew pork heart: party ginseng 12 grams, astragalus 12 grams, five flavors 9 grams, pork heart 1. Ingredients put ur, into a bowl with the right amount of water, stewed in water for 1 hour, eat meat and drink soup, every other day to eat 1 time.
(3) glutinous rice root loach soup: loach 90 grams, glutinous rice root 30 grams. Loach slaughtered and washed, fried in cooking oil until golden brown. First, two bowls of water and glutinous rice roots boiled together, to be boiled to 1 bowl of soup, put the loach into the soup, eat seasoned taste, even soup with fish with. Eat once every other day, 7 times for a course of treatment.
Yin deficiency maternal food therapy regimen:
(1) pork belly porridge: 1 pork belly, astragalus 15 grams, ginseng 3 grams, 50-100 grams of round-grained rice, 30 grams of lotus seeds, wheat, green onion appropriate amount. Pork belly scrubbed with salt, cooked with wheat until half cooked, take out the pork belly and cut fine. Chop all the medicines and put them in a gauze bag. Tie the mouth, and pork belly with water boiled until cooked and rotten, go to the medicine bag and pork belly, and then cook rice porridge, almost cooked, put green onions, seasoning at will, drink porridge and eat pork belly.
(2) silver fungus red dates soup: take 30 grams of silver fungus, 20 grams of red dates, the right amount of rock sugar. First, the silver fungus with warm water, remove the tip, wash and tear into small pieces, red dates wash and tear, into the pot with the right amount of water, with a small fire slowly burst until the silver fungus, red dates material cooked, into the ice sugar Jinghua blend, can be eaten out of the pot, each dose in 2 times to finish.
Although postpartum sweating is a common symptom after childbirth, but if sweating too much or stop for a long time, must prevent the gas with Jin off, become other diseases, so we must pay great attention and timely diagnosis and treatment. Postpartum sweating evidence can not be treated with the same disease, according to the different clinical manifestations of different typology to give the corresponding treatment. It is possible to take a single treatment method or in the case of very little effect, take two or more treatment methods to supplement the deficiency and converge the sweat, and then with medicinal food, must have a good prognosis.