Today is Mother's Day, first of all, wishing mothers all over the world
Health, longevity
On the occasion of this festival, Dr. Shang Qian, Department of Gynecology, Zhuhai Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, shared with you the health care knowledge related to menopause.
When it comes to "menopause", many people will associate it with emotional instability, insomnia, poor temper, sweating, menstrual disorders, etc., which are all symptoms of menopause. So, what are the ways that Chinese medicine can help mothers get through menopause safely, let's take a look.
What is Menopause?
Menopause is the physiological stage before and after natural menopause, the transition stage from reproductive to old age, a normal part of the aging process, and not a sign of disease. Most of them are between 40 and 60 years old, and can be divided into menopausal transition, perimenopause and postmenopause.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, menopause is mostly caused by the weakness of kidney qi, lack of essence and blood, coupled with dietary fatigue and damage to the seven emotions, resulting in the loss of kidney yin and the loss of yang in the latent yang, or the deficiency of kidney yang and the loss of veins in warmth. The disease is mainly characterized by kidney deficiency, and the viscera involves the heart, liver, and kidneys, resulting in symptoms such as heart and kidney incompatibility, liver and kidney yin deficiency, and spleen and kidney yang deficiency. In terms of treatment, it is mainly to nourish the kidney yin, nourish the yin and latent yang, and relieve the liver and depression.
The Department of Gynecology of the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is good at using syndrome differentiation and treatment plus or minus prescriptions to treat menopausal symptoms of different syndromes, and also helps menopausal women to go through menopause smoothly through traditional Chinese medicine combined with hormone replacement therapy.
What are the symptoms of menopause?
The symptoms of menopause are mostly menstrual irregularities, vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes, sweating and night sweats, etc.), genitourinary system dysfunction (urinary frequency, urgency, nocturia, etc.), reproductive system dysfunction (vaginal dryness, sexual intercourse dysfunction, etc.), and secondary symptoms such as poor spirit, anxiety, sleep disorders, cognitive decline and low back, joint pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, etc.
What happens and you must seek medical attention
Menopause generally refers to perimenopausal syndrome, and if the symptoms of perimenopausal syndrome are mild, there may be no obvious discomfort.
If the disease progresses severely, symptoms such as osteoporosis, decreased sexual function, and decreased ovarian function may occur, or anxiety, sleep disorders, etc., which seriously affect daily life, it is necessary to seek medical attention in time for systematic treatment.
What are some ways I can manage menopausal discomfort?
Psychological adjustment
Menopausal patients are prone to symptoms such as anger, anxiety, and depression, and patients should maintain a happy and optimistic mood. You can choose to talk to a friend or consult a psychologist to relieve symptoms.
Dietary regulation
You can eat more foods that are high in protein and soybeans, such as soybeans and eggs. Limit high-fat foods and sugary foods appropriately, eat less salt, and try not to smoke or drink.
Sleep regulation
It is recommended that women in the menopausal stage go to bed early and get up early, maintain sufficient sleep time every day, and avoid other harms caused by staying up late for a long time.
Movement regulation
You can participate in more outdoor sports to improve your physical and mental state, and you can also cultivate your sentiment.
Acupuncture point health care home health
If you have menopausal discomfort, you can do acupressure health care at home.
Three yin sex
Location: 3 inches on the inner calf and medial malleolus.
Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, calm the nerves and regulate menstruation.
Taixi Cave
Location: The inner side of the foot, the depression between the heel fascia behind the inner malleolus of the foot, is the kidney meridian acupoint and the original acupoint.
Efficacy: Relieves insomnia and dreams.
Shenmen Cave
Location: volar carpal striated ulnar end, radial depression of flexor carpi ulnaris tendon.
Efficacy: Calms the nerves, discharges the heart and spleen and stomach.
Dietary Therapy Regulates menopause with delicious taste
01
Walnut rice wine
material
20g walnut kernels, 50g sugar, 100ml rice wine.
method
1. Mash the walnuts and put them in a pot with the sugar.
2. Add rice wine, bring to a boil over low heat, and boil for 10 minutes.
Dosage
Take it once before bedtime, and you can eat it regularly (fasting for diabetic patients).
efficacy
Treatment of menopausal insomnia.
02
Raw yellow jujube kernel porridge
material
30g of rehmannia and sour jujube kernels, and 100g of rice.
Method:
1. Mash the sour jujube kernels and wash the rice.
2. Rehmannia and jujube kernels are decocted together, and the slag is removed and the water is taken.
3. Put the rice into the pot, add 1000ml of water, and cook it into porridge with the medicinal juice.
Dosage
1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.
efficacy
Nourish yin and nourish the heart, clear away heat and trouble.
If the symptoms of menopause are severe, it is recommended to visit the hospital as soon as possible, and after the doctor's evaluation, carry out standardized hormone replacement therapy to help you go through menopause smoothly.
This recipe is for new mothers
01
Lin's Tong Milk Formula
material
1/4 washed pig front hoof, 50g peanuts, 15g of Wang Buliu Xingzi, 20g of raw malt, 20g of red adzuki beans, and an appropriate amount of ginger.
method
Take 1.5 liters of water, take all the flavors, simmer for 30 minutes, and serve.
efficacy
Strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, and clear the lower breasts. Indications: Postpartum milk deficiency and milk deficiency.
Experts explain
This recipe was created by Professor Lin Yi, a master of traditional Chinese medicine and a breast expert.
Wang Buliu Xingzi is from the "Shennong Materia Medica", which is the seed of the caryophyllaceae plant wheat indigo. Bitter taste, flat in nature, return to the liver and stomach meridians; Conduct blood and menstruation, give birth to milk, reduce swelling and sores. Treating women with abdominal pain, amenorrhea, milk blockage, cradle carbuncle, carbuncle swelling. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" said that "the king does not stay and can walk the blood, which is the medicine of Yang Ming Chongren, and there is a common saying that 'pangolin, the king does not stay, and the woman takes the milk for a long time', which shows that his sex is not stopped. ”
Peanut is flat, has the functions of stomach, spleen, raw milk, and smooth intestines, and can be used for malnutrition, postpartum milk deficiency and other symptoms;
Pig's trotters have a long history of being used for lactation, and the medicine king Sun Simiao mentioned in the "Qianjin Fang" that "there is no juice for milk: a sow trotters, roughly cut, cooked in two buckets of water, and five or six liters of juice are drunk." Wang Mengying's "Diet Recipe for Living with Rest" said: "Pig's trotters, sweet and salty." Fill the kidneys and strengthen the waist and feet, nourish the stomach juice to smooth the skin. Long muscles, can heal leaky ulcers, help blood vessels, and can fill milk. It is more nutritious than meat, and it is easy to coagulate when cooked. "Pig's trotters are flesh and blood products, which can greatly replenish yin and blood; Rich in high-quality protein and lipids, it helps mothers to supplement nutrition and produce milk, which is particularly suitable for the physical characteristics of new mothers who are deficient and stasis, so until now the traditional habit of eating pig's feet ginger is still retained in Guangfu area.
People often use fried malt to return milk to reduce swelling, but they don't know that a small dose of raw malt has the function of clearing milk with the stomach. The diet of new mothers is greasy and hinders the spleen, and the addition of raw malt can strengthen the spleen and help transport, eliminate stagnation and lactation.
With Ganping's red adzuki beans, the function is to strengthen the spleen and water, pass through the milk and eliminate carbuncles, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "goes down, passes through the small intestine, can enter the yin, and treat tangible diseases...... drain pus and disperse blood and pass milk", so he is good at treating the evidence of milk stagnation.
Do-no
Because the king does not leave a line and has the function of promoting birth through the meridians, it is forbidden for pregnant women; People with allergies should use with caution; For those who have phlegm and dampness, or have lived in wetlands for a long time, and have spleen deficiency and dampness, it is recommended to use them with spleen-strengthening and food-dissipating products such as Huaishan, lotus seeds, tangerine peel, red yeast rice, etc.
Newborn mothers, especially caesarean sections, can be due to lack of body weakness and blood resulting in postpartum milk deficiency, at this time can also be combined with Tongluo lactation food therapy: a crucian carp, fried with ginger (3 pieces), 50g of astragalus, 10g of angelica, plus soup with ingredients.
These foods are good for women and are given to all mothers
Jujube
Red jujube is sweet and warm, returns to the spleen and stomach meridians, and has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and easing medicinal properties. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweet food enters the spleen and can strengthen the spleen, benefit the stomach and generate blood. The "Preparation of Materia Medica" records that jujube "nourishes the middle and nourishes the qi, nourishes the spleen and soil, moistens the heart and lungs, regulates the camp and health, slows down the yin and blood, produces jin liquid, and pleases the color".
longan
Fresh longan is dried and shelled, and dried until dry and non-sticky after the core is a commonly used tonic Chinese medicinal material, that is, longan meat, which Cantonese people love to call dried longan, and the dried longan meat is stronger than the fresh pulp. Longan is warm and sweet, enters the three meridians of the spleen, heart and liver, and has the effect of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Ancient books say that long-term clothing is lightweight, strong physique, and longevity, and is recommended as an important medicine for the treatment of heart and spleen deficiency. Longan is nourishing but not greasy, and sweet and warm, suitable as a long-term tonic, and can also be used as a snack chew or soup every day.
Hsiang-hsien
Goji berries are sweet in taste, flat in nature, return to the liver and kidney meridians, can nourish the liver and kidneys, and benefit the eyes. "Shennong's Materia Medica" records: "The wolfberry taste is bitter and cold, and the evil qi in the five main five is thirsty in the heat and paralysis in the week." Long-term service, strong muscles and bones, can be light and ageless. "Compendium of Materia Medica" is also cloudy: "Nourish the kidneys, moisten the lungs, and brighten the eyes." ”
walnut
Walnut kernel is warm, sweet in taste, enters the lungs, kidneys, and large intestine meridians, can tonify the kidneys, warm the lungs, and moisten the intestines, and has high medicinal value.
Meng Xu, a health practitioner in the Tang Dynasty, believed in "Nourishing Formula" that walnuts have the effect of "eating them to make people edible, moistening the blood, and delicate flesh and bones". "Kaibao Materia Medica" records that walnut kernels "eat to make people fat and healthy, moisten the muscles, black hair, eat more small water, and remove five hemorrhoids". And Li Shizhen's understanding of the effect of walnuts is: "nourishing qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and dissolving phlegm, benefiting life, benefiting Sanjiao, warming the lungs and moistening the intestines, curing deficiency, cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in the waist and feet, abdominal hernia, bloody dysentery, intestinal wind, swelling and poison, acne sores, and copper poison." ”
Black sesame seeds
Medicinal sesame seeds are generally black sesame seeds. Black sesame seeds are sweet and flat, and belong to the liver, kidney, and large intestine meridians. According to the "Shennong Materia Medica", sesame seeds have the effect of "deficiency in the main injury, replenishing the five insides, benefiting qi, growing muscles, and filling the brain and marrow".
millet
Many women in the north of the mainland have the tradition of using millet and brown sugar to nourish their bodies after giving birth. Millet porridge is rich in nutrients and has the reputation of "substitute ginseng soup".
Millet is sweet and salty, slightly cold, and has the effect of strengthening the spleen and removing heat, benefiting the kidney and qi and replenishing deficiency. A layer of "rice oil" on millet porridge can nourish yin and is used to treat kidney yin loss. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that rice oil power can be solid hair, the fattest person, nourishing yin and growing strength, replenishing fluid and filling essence, and the power of nourishing yin is better than that of cooked land, and it is a good tonic for people with insufficient kidney yin. Eating more millet can also enhance physical fitness, increase resistance, and make people more energetic.
lotus seed
Lotus seeds are flat in nature, sweet and astringent, return to the spleen, kidney, and heart meridians, and have the effects of tonifying the spleen and stopping diarrhea, stopping the band, benefiting the kidneys and astringent essence, and nourishing the heart and soothing the nerves. "Wang's Medical Case": Lotus seeds, the most nourishing stomach qi and suppressing deficiency and reversal, if the regurgitation is due to stomach deficiency, and the anger is not acceptable, but the day to dry lotus seeds chewed and swallowed, better than other medicines.
As the old saying goes: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the child wants to raise but does not wait." "Parents are here, and there is still a way to go in life; When your parents go, there is only one way back in life. Time is passing, they are getting older and older, if there is time, you must accompany them well and be filial. In this way, there will be no regrets and regrets in life. ■
[Source: Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Zhuhai Hospital, Huang Suiping said spleen and stomach, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other WeChat]