What are the contraindications of Chinese medicine during pregnancy

Pregnancy is a special physiological period for women. If any disease occurs during this period, special caution must be exercised when using medications. Try not to use any medication for treatment. Otherwise it will have a bad effect on the fetus. In addition, it also has adverse effects on women themselves. So what are the contraindications of Chinese medicine during pregnancy? Let us talk about it in detail below.

Contraindications to medication during pregnancy: Certain drugs that can damage the fetus and cause miscarriage should be avoided during pregnancy, which is called contraindications to medication during pregnancy. Depending on the degree of damage the drug causes to the fetus and pregnant women, it can usually be divided into two categories: prohibited use and cautious use.

1. Prohibited categories: Most of them are highly toxic, or have strong laxative, blood-dissolving, and other medicinal properties, such as blister beetle, croton, morning glory, euphorbia, pokeweed, gelsemium elegans, genkwa, leech, horsefly, dry lacquer, trillium, curcuma, musk, etc.

2. Use with caution: Most of them are medicines that can remove blood stasis and promote menstruation, break up qi and relieve stagnation, and have pungent, hot, and lubricating properties to move the fetus, such as peach kernel, safflower, Achyranthes bidentata, Pollen Typha, rhubarb, Glauber's salt, Aconitum, dried ginger, cinnamon, Citrus aurantium, Fructus Dendranthemae, and Dianthus superbus. Regardless of whether the drug is prohibited or used with caution, its use should be avoided as much as possible unless there is a special need. However, if a pregnant woman suffers from a serious illness and the disease cannot be cured without the use of the above-mentioned medicines, we should grasp the main contradiction and use them as appropriate to eliminate the pathogenic factors quickly and carefully, which will be more beneficial to the health of mother and child. This is the reason why there is a cause and no death.

Pregnancy Taboo Songs

1. Leeches and horseflies, Aconitum, Aconite and Tianxiong.

2. Wild kudzu, mercury and croton, Achyranthes bidentata, Coix lachryma-jobi and centipede, Tripterygium wilfordii, musk deer, male and female euphorbia, cicada molting yellow, saltpeter, peony and cinnamon, Sophora japonica, morning glory, saponin, Pinellia ternata, Arisaema confusa and tongcao, Dianthus superbus, dried ginger, peach kernel.

3. Borax, dried lacquer, crab claws, and ground clove and Imperata root are all ineffective.

Only by using the medicine correctly can the human body receive better therapeutic effects and alleviate symptoms. If the treatment method or medication is improperly used, not only will it not have a good therapeutic effect, it may also delay treatment and cause more serious physical illness. Especially when the human body is in a special period, such as pregnancy.