Women often experience symptoms such as qi and blood deficiency, physical weakness, anemia, lochia and physical exhaustion after childbirth. At this time, if herbal medicine is used for conditioning, it can help the body recover as soon as possible. Let's learn more about it together.
1. Postpartum conditioning should be targeted - When using herbal medicine to condition the body after childbirth, new mothers must pay attention because different constitutions require different types of nourishment. Targeted conditioning can achieve better results.
1. Methods for nourishing new mothers with yang deficiency constitution
Characteristics: Cold hands and feet, pale complexion, frequent urination, loose stools, sleepiness, fatigue, lack of water intake.
Recommended foods: Lamb, soft-shelled turtle, eel, longan, cherry.
Recommended Chinese herbs: Deer antler, eucommia bark.
Recommended herbal recipes: Angelica lamb soup, sesame oil chicken.
2. Methods for nourishing new mothers with qi deficiency constitution
Characteristics: Weak tone of speech, weak limbs, sweating easily, pale complexion, loss of appetite, fatigue, sleepiness.
Recommended foods: Chicken, beef, glutinous rice, Chinese yam.
Recommended Chinese herbs: Astragalus, ginseng, codonopsis pilosula, American ginseng, licorice.
Recommended herbal recipes: Astragalus black chicken soup, ginseng lotus seed soup.
3. Methods for nourishing new mothers with blood deficiency constitution
Characteristics: Pale or yellowish complexion, numbness in hands and feet, dizziness, pale nails, palpitations, insomnia.
Recommended foods: Pig liver, chicken liver, grapes, cherries, apples.
Recommended Chinese herbs: Angelica, polygonum multiflorum, Chinese wolfberry, red dates, cooked rehmannia, white peony.
Recommended herbal recipes: Chinese wolfberry carp soup, angelica red date soup.
4. Methods for nourishing new mothers with blood stasis constitution
Characteristics: Cold and painful lower abdomen, back pain, excessive and dark lochia.
Recommended foods: Hawthorn, brown sugar, millet, eggs.
Recommended Chinese herbs: Motherwort, peach kernel, notoginseng, salvia miltiorrhiza.
Recommended herbal recipes: Notoginseng chicken stew, angelica motherwort pork bone soup.
2. Precautions for postpartum body conditioning
1. Dietary aspects: Meals should be diverse, with a combination of coarse and fine grains, and a mixture of meat and vegetables. They should be rich in protein, vitamins, and minerals (calcium, magnesium).
2. Bedroom ventilation: Keep the indoor air fresh, especially in summer, to prevent heatstroke.
3. Pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene: Wipe the body every two to three days in winter, take showers in summer, and avoid bathing in a tub. In addition to bathing, wash the external genitals regularly.
4. Avoid sexual intercourse when lochia is not yet clean: For women with wounds in the perineum and damage to the birth canal, it is even more necessary to postpone sexual intercourse. Get up and exercise early, and persist in postpartum exercises.
5. Seek medical attention for postpartum bleeding: If lochia remains bloody or the amount of bleeding is similar to menstrual flow after more than two weeks postpartum, seek medical attention without delay.
6. Pay attention to breast hygiene: Clean the nipples with water or 2% boric acid solution before each breastfeeding, breastfeed on a regular schedule, and use a breast pump or manually express excess milk.
New moms must pay attention to postpartum recovery because it affects a woman's entire life. We hope that new moms will take care of their own health while taking care of their babies.+
