Pregnant women who have indications for rehmannia can use the drug as prescribed by their doctor.
Rehmannia glutinosa is sweet and cold in nature, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. It should be taken with caution by people with cold spleen and stomach, and the pharmacopoeia does not indicate that rehmannia is contraindicated in pregnant women.
Rehmannia glutinosa has the effect of generating fluids to quench thirst, clearing heat and fire, stopping vomiting, removing vexation, and diuretic. It can be used for coughing with lung heat, thirst and fever, vomiting and retching with stomach heat, vomiting pus with lung carbuncle, and astringent pain with feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort with traction in the abdomen). Therefore, pregnant women with the above indications can take this product.
Rehmannia glutinosa for vomiting can be combined with ginger, bamboo rhizome and other decoctions; for lung-heat cough, it can often be combined with zhebeimu, scutellaria baicalensis, gua vulgaris and so on; and for vexation (irritability and sultriness) and thirst, it can often be combined with maitreya, pollen of smallpox, and so on.
The adverse reactions and contraindications of the above drugs are not clear.
The use of rehmannia root in the treatment of the above diseases should be rationalized under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis.