What is the cause of blood deficiency and scanty menstruation?

In traditional Chinese health care, we often see the words blood deficiency and qi deficiency, as well as some prescriptions for treating blood deficiency and qi deficiency. So what exactly is blood deficiency? In short, it is a sub-healthy state of lack of energy, with many manifestations. Today, the editor invited a health expert to talk to you about the problem of blood deficiency. I hope that friends will pay enough attention to it and pay attention to health and wellness.

The manifestation and conditioning of blood deficiency constitution cannot be the same for everyone. It is recommended to adopt different methods according to different situations:

1. Spleen deficiency and blood deficiency

Symptoms: fatigue, sallow complexion, poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools, dizziness, scanty menstruation in women, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish the spleen and blood.

Main prescription: Guishao Liujunzi Decoction (Angelica, White Peony Root, Ginseng, Atractylodes, Poria, Licorice, Tangerine Peel, and Processed Pinellia).

Additions and subtractions: Astragalus, placenta, and donkey-hide gelatin can be added; for abdominal distension and loose stools, add Magnolia officinalis, Chinese yam, and Coix seed.

2. Qi and blood deficiency

Symptoms: dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, fatigue, shortness of breath, laziness to speak, numbness of limbs or twitching pupils, pale or sallow complexion, pale lips and nails, pale tongue, little coating, and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish Qi and blood.

Main recipe: Bazhen Decoction (ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, licorice, Angelica sinensis, white peony root, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Ligusticum chuanxiong).

Add or subtract: Astragalus, placenta, and donkey-hide gelatin can be added; if there is bleeding, add palm charcoal.

3. Heart and liver blood deficiency

Symptoms: palpitations, dizziness, dull complexion, numbness of limbs, or frequent dreams and forgetfulness, scanty and light-colored menstruation in women, or even amenorrhea, pale tongue, and weak pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish the heart, liver, qi and blood.

Main prescription: Siwu Decoction (Danggui, Rehmannia glutinosa, white peony root, Chuanxiong), or Guipi Decoction (Dangshen, Astragalus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Danggui, Poria, Longan pulp, Ziziphus jujuba seeds, Aucklandia lappa, roasted licorice, Polygala tenuifolia, ginger, jujube)

Additions and subtractions: Papaya, mulberry, and donkey-hide gelatin can be added.

4. Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

Symptoms: dizziness, tinnitus, forgetfulness, dry mouth and throat, numbness or paralysis of limbs, fever in the five parts of the body, red tongue with little coating, weak and rapid pulse.

Treatment method: Nourish the liver and kidneys.

Main recipe: Yi Guan Jian (Adenophora, Ophiopogon, Angelica, Rehmannia, Lycium barbarum, and Toosendan fruit).

Add or subtract: For fatigue and shortness of breath, add Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus; for dizziness and limb numbness, add Placenta and donkey-hide gelatin; for fever in the five parts of the body, add Cortex Moutan, Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Carapax tricolor.

After reading the characteristics of blood deficiency explained by the above experts, the editor believes that most of the friends who are in sub-healthy status have the characteristics of blood deficiency. So, please ask these friends to pay attention to the problem of blood deficiency, follow the experts' advice, eat more blood-enriching health foods, especially seize the favorable opportunity of health preservation in winter, eat more tonic foods, which is good for health.