Can pregnant women take Xiao Chaihu Granules?

Pregnant women must be careful about the use of medication when they have a cold, because improper use of medication may have adverse effects on the fetus, especially in the early stages of pregnancy when the fetus is still unstable. Improper use of medication may even induce miscarriage or fetal malformations. As for Xiao Chaihu Granules, pregnant women are generally not allowed to take it. Let’s take a look at this aspect.

Can pregnant women take Xiao Chaihu Granules?

Can pregnant women take Xiao Chaihu Granules? Xiao Chaihu Granules can be used for exogenous diseases, when the evil invades Shaoyang syndrome, with symptoms of alternating chills and fever, bitter fullness in the chest and flanks, loss of appetite, irritability, nausea, bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat; and Xiao Chaihu Granules has good antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and liver-protecting effects. So can pregnant women take Xiao Chaihu granules?

Xiao Chaihu Granules are a clinical medicine for home medicine cabinets, mainly composed of bupleurum, pinellia, scutellaria, codonopsis, licorice, ginger, and jujube. A traditional Chinese medicine preparation whose auxiliary materials are dextrin, mannitol and other active ingredients. Moreover, Chaihu can rob the liver of yin, so it must be used with white peony root, pollen, etc. in patients with yin deficiency (red tongue with little coating, thirst, etc.). Otherwise, the patient will feel as if there is gas rushing upwards, and experience dizziness, headache, etc. This is what Chinese medicine calls excessive liver qi rising. Pregnant women are one of the special groups who receive clinical medications, and we must pay attention not only to their conditions but also to the effects of the drugs on the fetus. Although Xiao Chaihu Granules are granules made from traditional Chinese medicine and have good clinical effects, it is best not to use them if pregnant women do not have special circumstances. If you want to use it, please consult a doctor or pharmacist to ensure scientific and rational use of the medicine.

What to eat when pregnant women have a cold

1. When your throat is itchy and sore at the early stage of a cold, immediately gargle and rinse your throat with concentrated salt water every 10 minutes. It will be effective after more than 10 times.

2. Drinking chicken soup can relieve symptoms such as nasal congestion and runny nose during a cold, and it is also effective in clearing respiratory viruses.

Drinking chicken soup regularly can enhance the body's resistance and prevent colds. You can use a tender chicken, wash and clean it, add water to boil, add seasonings (pepper, ginger, chopped green onion) to the chicken soup when eating, or use the chicken soup to cook noodles.

3. Cook 100 grams of rice into porridge, then add two spoons of rice vinegar, appropriate amounts of scallion and ginger, and eat while hot. (This recipe has the effect of inducing sweat and relieving exterior symptoms)

4. Add 10 slices of ginger with skin, 10 onions with roots, an appropriate amount of brown sugar, and glutinous rice to cook porridge. Take one bowl of it hot, once a day, for several days.

5. Wash and slice 3 cabbage roots, add 7 onion roots, boil them into a bowl of soup, add appropriate amount of sugar, drink it while hot, cover yourself with a blanket and sweat, and you will recover.

6. Add 25 grams of shredded ginger and 50 grams of shredded radish to appropriate amount of water and simmer for 15 minutes. Add appropriate amount of brown sugar and boil. Drink it while it is hot. Cover yourself with a blanket and sweat and you will recover.

7. According to TCM syndrome differentiation, during pregnancy, if there is fever, slight aversion to cold, no sweat or little sweat, headache, cough, thirst or fetal movement disorder, red tip of tongue, and thin white tongue coating, it is advisable to use the method of spicy and cool diaphoresis: 10g wild chrysanthemum, brew with 3000ml boiling water and drink, several times a day.