Can Chinese medicine cure postpartum disease?

As the saying goes, postpartum diseases need to be cured during the confinement period. Many women will have some postpartum diseases during the confinement period. These postpartum diseases will frequently occur after the women have finished the confinement period, which will make women feel very uncomfortable. However, the methods of curing postpartum diseases in life do not have particularly good effects. The root of the disease left by the confinement period can only be completely cured during the next confinement period. So can Chinese medicine cure postpartum diseases?

Clear the meridians and regulate the body's balance with fire moxibustion

Traditional Chinese medicine has three magic weapons for treating diseases: acupuncture, moxibustion and medication. Acupuncture is acupuncture, which dredges the meridians; moxibustion is moxibustion, which emphasizes external treatment; medicine is decoction, which emphasizes internal conditioning. Among the moxibustion therapies, you may be relatively familiar with moxibustion, but what is fire moxibustion therapy (fire therapy)?

Fire moxibustion therapy evolved from moxibustion. It uses the principle of thermal effect of meridians of moxibustion therapy to rapidly raise the local temperature through fire, allowing the Chinese medicine ingredients to penetrate into the body, thereby improving local blood circulation, dredging meridians, regulating the balance of yin and yang, strengthening the body and eliminating evil, and activating the immune function of various tissue cells in the human body, so as to achieve the purpose of preventing and curing diseases and strengthening the body.

Fire moxibustion has many benefits, such as dispelling cold and relieving fatigue. It is very effective in relieving symptoms such as low back pain, periarthritis of the shoulder, cervical spondylosis, osteoarthritis, kidney deficiency, stomach cold, rheumatic pain, dysmenorrhea, and uterine cold. Fire therapy is more effective during the dog days of summer.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pregnant women will be deficient in qi and blood after giving birth. If they are not properly cared for, they may be exposed to wind and cold, which may invade the muscles and joints, causing a disease with the main symptoms being limb muscle and joint pain, aversion to wind, fear of cold, or mild functional limitation. Postpartum rheumatism is what we commonly call "postpartum wind" or "confinement disease".

By performing fire moxibustion on the Du meridian of patients with postpartum disease, warming and nourishing the Du meridian can improve the overall physical condition of patients with postpartum disease.

During treatment, Chinese medicine gauze is spread on the Du meridian. Through the warming effect of moxibustion, the Chinese medicine will gradually penetrate into the body, which can warm the Yang Qi, remove dampness and cold, balance the internal organs, and allow Qi and blood to flow throughout the body, so that the joints and muscles of the whole body will naturally stop hurting. This therapy can cure both the symptoms and the root cause of patients with "postpartum disease", and strengthen the body and eliminate evil.

"Fire moxibustion can be used for all yang deficiency, cold syndrome, rheumatic diseases, arthritis, and painful diseases caused by cold. It can also be used for blood stasis diseases such as dysmenorrhea. Fire moxibustion therapy uses heat to warm yang, replenish deficiency, dispel cold, and dredge menstruation to achieve the purpose of treatment.

"However, fire moxibustion is not suitable for people with heat syndrome or yin deficiency. Because of the excessive fire in the body, fire moxibustion may aggravate the internal heat and cause internal heat. Generally speaking, people who often have hot hands and feet and are afraid of heat have yin deficiency and are definitely not suitable for fire therapy. In addition, people with sensitive skin, boils, damaged skin, and bleeding diseases (such as hemophilia, thrombocytopenia, purpura, etc.) are also not suitable for fire moxibustion. Pregnant women, tumors, severe heart disease, diabetes, and patients with very high blood pressure are also not suitable for fire moxibustion."

Patients cannot do fire moxibustion on an empty stomach before doing it. They should drink plenty of warm water before and after fire moxibustion, but they must not drink cold water, eat cold food or drink cold drinks. Fire therapy is required to be done one hour after a meal. After completing the fire moxibustion, you cannot take a shower for 6 hours and cannot directly face the air conditioner or blow the fan.