Archive | August 7, 2015

Traditional Chinese Medicine Can Prevent Miscarriag

The older generation thins that miscarriage prevention of Chinese medicine is the safest method of preventing miscarriage. However, people must choose formal division of doctor of traditional Chinese medicine to open a prescription and above will be detailed component specification, so that it can take with feeling at ease.

Miscarriage prevention of Chinese medicine is applicable to those pregnant women with advanced maternal age and habit abortion.  Doctors of traditional Chinese medicine will deploy appropriate drugs according to different individual constitution to get the best effect of tocolysis.

It is worth noting that, pregnant women want to take herbs to prevent miscarriage without taking Chinese medicine by themselves which is very dangerous. Therefore, pregnant women should choose public formal Chinese medicine hospital or affiliated hospital of traditional Chinese medicine. Thus, the doctors make a diagnosis to suit the remedy to the case. It will be more secure.

Chinese medicine of miscarriage prevention

Purple perilla

It is tepid in property with sweet and spicy taste.  It has effects on sweating, loosening the chest, nourishing phren and guiding qi downward and preventing miscarriage. It is applicable to threatened abortion, fullness in chest and hypochondrium and nausea and vomiting due to anemofrigid cold and stagnation of the circulation of vital energy in gestation period. It often gets    synergy with tangerine peel and amomum villosum.

Scutellaria baicalensis

It is cold in property. It has effects clearing heat with drying dampness, purging fire with preventing toxin, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, and preventing miscarriage. It is suitable for threatened abortion due to syndrome of accumulated heat due to fetal toxicity. It often gets synergy with bighead atractylodes rhizome and angelica. It can treat gestational dysentery, jaundice and cough with lung heat, ardent fever, skin and external diseases and bleeding due to reduchishen.

Amomum villosum

It is warm in property with spicy taste. It has effects on relieving dampness, promoting the circulation of qi, warming middle energizer to arrest vomiting, relieving diarrhea and prevent miscarriage. It is applicable for sense of suppression in the chest, vomiting and threatened abortion due to adverse rising of gastric qi in early gestation. It often fried and then grinds into powder or gets synergy with perilla leaf, ageratum, bighead atractylodes rhizomet, largehead atractylodes rhizome and angelica.

Folium artemisiae argyi

It is warm in property with bitter and pungent taste. It has effects on warming meridian to stop bleeding, expelling pathogentic cold, regulatimg the menstrual function and prevent miscarriage. It is suitable for fetal bleeding due to vacuity cold of the lower origin, threatened abortion, algomenorrhea and uterine cold infertility. It often gets synergy with rhizoma cyperi, angelica, fennel, dipsacus asperoides and parasitic loranthus.

Bighead atractylodes rhizome

It is warm in property with sweet taste. It has effects on nourishing qi and strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness, disinhibiting water and preventing miscarriage. It is applicable to threatened abortion due to deficiency of spleen and qi. It can get synergy with tangerine peel, poria, radix codonopsis, and ginger and so on.

It is also widely used in treating threatened abortion due to gravid heat (synergy with scutellaria baicalensis, cape jasmine, radix paeoniae alba, etc.), blood deficiency (synergy with angelica, radix paeoniae alba, radix rehmanniae recens and so on), kidney deficiency (synergy with mistletoe, himalayan teasel root, yam, cornus officinalis, etc.).

Eucommia bark

It is warm in property with sweet taste. It has effects on tonifying the liver and kidney, strengthening muscles and bones and preventing miscarriage. It is applicable for liver and kidney deficiency, threatened abortion due to vacuity cold of the lower origin, hematockezia, and habitual abortion. It gets synergy with teasel root (grind into powder) and jujube flesh for making pills, or teasel root, dodder and donkey-hide gelatin for decocting.

Donkey-hide gelatin

It is neutral in nature with sweet taste. It has effects on stopping bleeding, enriching the blood, nourishing yin, moistening dryness and preventing miscarriage. It is applicable for threatened abortion, uterine bleeding and hematockezia due to blood deficiency or weakness of thoroughfare and conception vessels. It gets synergy with radix rehmanniae recens and mugwort. It also can treat hypermenorrhea and postpartum astriction.

Bamboo shavings

It is slightly cold in property with sweet taste. It has effects on clearing heat, relieving phlegm, relieving restlessness, stop vomiting and preventing miscarriage. It is applicable for threatened abortion due to gravid heat. It can singly use and use with scutellaria baicalensis and radix boehmeriae.

Radix boehmeriae

It is cold in property with sweet taste. It has effects with clearing heat, cooling the blood, removing toxin and preventing miscarriage. It is applicable for threatened abortion due to exuberant heat toxin, threatened abortion and hematockezia. It can use with donkey-hide gelatin, scutellaria baicalensis and angelica.

 

Traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and resolving toxin

1 Radix scrophulariae

Radix scrophulariae contains scrophularin, cyclenes, ether, terpene and glycoside. It also contains volatile oils and alkaloids. Pharmacological tests prove that, water infusion, alcohol infusion and decoction from radix scrophulariae have a function of lowering blood pressure. Radix Scrophulariae also has function of dilation of blood vessels and the strong heart. A variety of penetration agents of scrophulariaceae plants have effects on preventing convulsion and resolving superficies.

Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in property with sweet and bitter taste. It has function of nourishing yin, reducing pathogenic fire, cooling blood and relieving toxin. It is used for polydipsia due to a fever, macular eruption, sleepless, spontaneous perspiration, night sweat, consumption of body-fluid, constipation and sore throat.

Dosage: 6–12 grams; people with loose stool, phlegmatic hygrosis, and phlegmatic abundance are forbidden for taking.

2 cassia seed

Cassia seed contains anthracene ester and anthraquinone glycoside, cassia element and vitamin A.  Pharmacological experiments prove that cassia seed has effects on lowering blood pressure, reducing serum cholesterol, preventing pathogenic bacteria and soft stool with diarrhea.

Chinese medicine believes that it is slightly cold in property with sweet and bitter taste. It has function of clearing liver, improving vision, disinhibiting water and relaxing the bowels.  It is suitable for bloodshot eyes with astringent pain and photophobia with delacrimation due to hepatic heat and wind-heat of liver channel. In addition, it is also suitable for the treatment of hypertension, hepatitis, cirrhosis of liver ascites and habitual constipation.

Dosage: 3–9 grams, decoction with mashing.

3 cortex moutan

Cortex moutan contains paeonol, paeonolide, volatile oil and phytocholesterol.

Pharmacological experiments prove that the cortex moutan has effect on reducing blood pressure easing pain, tranquilizing and allaying excitement, preventing inflammation and clearing heat. For a variety of pathogenic bacteria, it has strong inhibitory effect.

Chinese medicine believes that it is cool in property with bitter and pungent taste. It has function of clearing heat, cooling blood, and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for macular eruption, pain, hematemesis, large carbuncle and traumatic injury.

Dosage: 5—9 grams, people with the spleen deficiency with diarrhea are forbidden to take.

4 Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle contains chlorogenic acid, inositol and flavonoid.  Pharmacological experiments prove that honeysuckle has anti-inflammatory and antipyretic effects. For influenza virus and a variety of pathogenic bacteria and skin pathogenic fungi, it has inhibitory effect, which reflects the functions (clearing heat and resolving toxin) of honeysuckle.

Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in property with sweet taste. It has function of clearing heat and resolving toxin. It is applicable to fever with warm disease, toxic heat with bloody flux, skin ulcer, carbuncle, and furuncle.

Dosage: generally 6-12 grams; people with diarrhea with deficiency-cold, skin ulcer with purulence and no toxic heat are forbidden to take.

5 selfheal

Selfheal contains triterpenoid saponins, aglucon, tartaric acid, essential oil, vitamin, potassium chloride and so on.  Pharmacological experiments prove that whole selfheal has effects on lowering blood pressure. Its decoction has different degrees of inhibitive effects on some common skin fungus, and a variety of pathogenic bacteria.

Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in property with bitter and pungent taste. It has functions of clearing the liver-fire, dissipate binding depression and lowering blood pressure. It is suitable for bloodshot, photophobia with tears, headache and dizziness. It is used for scrofula and tumour due to pyrophlegm and stagnation

Dosage: generally 9 grams or so.

6 fructus gardeniae

Fructus gardeniae contains a variety of bitter glucoside, also mannitol and malol. It has functions of benefiting gallbladderor, increasing biliation, lowering the temperature, tranquilizing and allaying excitement, easing pain and preventing convulsion. For a variety of pathogenic bacteria and a variety of skin pathogenic fungi, it has inhibitory effect.

Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in property with bitter taste. It has function of purging intense heat, relieving restlessness, clearing heat and removing dampness, cooling blood and resolving toxin. It is suitable for calenture, dysphoria, egersis, aurigo, bloodshot eyes, epistaxis, toxic heat and toxin sores and other disorders.

Dosage: 9 – 3 grams