🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Traditional Chinese medicine treatment for puerperal infection still follows the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment, combined with dietary therapy to promote early recovery. Oral decoctions:⑴ Type of pathogenic toxin invasion: Treat by clearing heat and toxins, resolving stasis. Use Wuwei Disinfecting Drink (from "Medical Canon of Gold Mirror") combined with Shenghua Decoction (from "Fu Qingzhu's Gynecology") with modifications. Prescription: Honeysuckle 15 grams, dandelion 15 grams, chrysanthemum 15 grams, ligusticum 9 grams, angelica 24 grams, peach kernel 9 grams, red peony root 9 grams, tangerine shell 9 grams, fried licorice 6 grams. If severe lower abdominal pain, add honeysuckle 15 grams, houttuynia 10 grams to enhance heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. If constipation, add raw rhubarb 6 grams to promote bowel movement.⑵ Type of blood stasis and heat intermingling: Treat by clearing heat, purging, and removing stasis. Use Da Huang Mu Dan Pi Tang (from "Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber") with additions. Prescription: Rhubarb 12 grams, moutan bark 10 grams, peach kernel 10 grams, winter melon seed 30 grams, mirabilite 10 grams, honeysuckle 15 grams, belamcanda 10 grams. If high fever persists, restlessness, thirst, and desire to drink, add raw gypsum 30 grams (pre-decocted), and anemarrhena 15 grams to clear heat and protect yin.⑶ Type of heat entering nutrient stage: Treat by clearing camp heat and cooling blood. Use Qing Ying Tang (from "Treatise on Warm Diseases"). Prescription: Rhino horn 9 grams, rehmannia 15 grams, scrophularia 9 grams, ophiopogon 9 grams, bamboo leaf heart 3 grams, salvia 6 grams, coptis 5 grams, honeysuckle 9 grams, honeysuckle 6 grams. If mental confusion or persistent high fever occurs, simultaneously administer An Gong Niu Huang Wan or Zi Xue Dan.
Dietary Therapy: Prescription ① Purslane and Brown Sugar Drink (from "Practical Manual of Clinical Male and Female Diseases"): Purslane 30 grams, brown sugar 30 grams. Wash purslane, boil with water, add brown sugar, simmer for 20 minutes, then drink. This formula has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, and stopping bleeding. Prescription ② Peach Kernel and Lotus Root Sugar Soup (from "Modern Integrated Chinese and Western Gynecology"): Peach kernel 10 grams, fresh lotus root 250 grams, brown sugar to taste. Remove skin and tip from peach kernel, wash and slice lotus root, place in pot with water, cook into soup, then add brown sugar. Eat lotus root and drink soup. This formula has the effect of activating blood circulation and resolving stasis.<TCM Treatment>