Treatment of edema in pregnant women with traditional Chinese medicine

Symptoms of spleen edema: After a few months of pregnancy, the pregnant woman's face and limbs are swollen, even the whole body is swollen, the skin is yellow or pale, the skin is thin and bright, it is difficult to get up, mental fatigue, abdominal distension, loose stool, and less urine.

Recommended diet therapy:

Chixiaodou yam porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of adzuki bean, 50 grams of fresh yam, a little sugar.

Production: Cook adzuki beans first, add fresh yam when they are 80% ripe, and add a little sugar after cooking.

Function: It has the functions of invigorating spleen, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Conducive to pregnancy edema, loose stool and oliguria caused by spleen deficiency and dampness resistance.

Huangqi Baizhu Sanpi Drink

Ingredients: Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Fructus Benincasae peel, Poria each 30g, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens peel10g, and 5 Chinese dates.

Production: Boil the six flavors with 500 ml of water to 300 ml, and add appropriate amount of white sugar, which can be taken twice or in installments.

Function: It has the effects of invigorating qi and spleen, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness. It is suitable for pregnant women with qi deficiency and edema, edema of limbs and thin and shiny skin.

Symptoms of kidney deficiency and edema: in the second and third trimester of pregnancy, the patient's face is swollen, even the lower abdomen, especially the lower limbs. The swollen skin is thin, white and bright, and it is difficult to get up immediately according to the depression. Gloomy complexion, dizziness, tinnitus, palpitation, shortness of breath, soreness of waist and knees, chills of limbs, and short urination.

Recommended diet therapy:

Black fish and winter melon soup

Ingredients: Big snakehead 1 treaty 500g, white gourd 500g, and appropriate seasoning.

Production: first, wash the snakehead, cut the wax gourd into pieces, put it in a casserole and cook it until it is rotten, then add a little onion and garlic without salt. After cooking, eat fish and drink soup.

Function: It has the function of warming kidney, promoting diuresis and preventing miscarriage, and is suitable for pregnancy edema with kidney-yang deficiency.

Chuanduan mutton yaozhou

Ingredients: Dipsacus 15g, 2 pairs of sheep kidneys, 250g mutton, appropriate amount of onion, five spices, 50g japonica rice and 20g coix seed. Production: First, mix Radix Dipsaci, sheep kidney and mutton with seasoning, soup rice and Coicis Semen to make porridge, and take it for breakfast in the morning.

Function: It has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, tonifying kidney and preventing miscarriage. This porridge is suitable for pregnancy edema due to kidney-yang deficiency.

Symptoms of qi stagnation and dampness resistance: generally, after four or five months of pregnancy, the patient's feet swell first, and then slowly spread to the legs. The skin color remains the same, and you can't press the nest. If you press it, you will feel heavy and swollen, inconvenient to move, dizziness and abdominal distension, chest tightness and hypochondriasis, loss of appetite and less urine.

Recommended diet therapy:

Melon skin soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of honey, 0/5 grams of wax gourd peel/kloc-,6 grams of Rhizoma Cyperi.

Preparation: the peel of winter melon and Cyperus rotundus are decocted in water, then honey is added and decocted. 1 ~ twice a day for several days.

Function: It has the function of regulating qi and benefiting water.

Carp tripe soup

Materials: Carp 1 (about 500g), Atractylodes macrocephala15g, Pericarpium Arecae and Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae10g, and ginger bark 3g.

Production: Slaughter the carp, wrap the medicine in cloth, put it in a pot, add water 1000 ml, cook with slow fire until cooked, remove the residue, and season with onion, garlic and salt-free soy sauce. Eat fish and drink soup. Take it twice in the morning and evening, and take 3 ~ 4 doses continuously.