<p class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT:21pt;mso-char-indent-count:2.0;mso-char-indent-size:10.5pt">During early pregnancy, women may experience mild dizziness, nausea, and food cravings. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, this results from cessation of menstruation, causing upward surging of Chong pulse energy (the sea of blood), disrupting the downward movement of stomach qi. This is generally considered a normal physiological response of pregnancy. "Pregnancy vomiting" refers to symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, chest tightness, aversion to food odors, or immediate vomiting after eating, occurring between the first and third months of pregnancy.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>These symptoms arise mainly due to pre-existing weak stomach qi or liver fire rising. After conception, Chong pulse energy surges upward, impairing stomach harmony and descending function, or triggering liver fire. Since pregnancy vomiting is primarily characterized by vomiting, dietary recommendations focus on light, soft, easily digestible foods. Avoid strong-smelling, fishy, rotten, or pungent foods. Limit or avoid greasy, rich foods.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>For weak stomach qi: milk, soy milk, egg custard, rice porridge, soft rice, soft noodles.
For liver fire rising: increase intake of vegetables and fruits.
Recommended eating method: small portions, multiple meals per day.
Pregnancy’s Six Unexpected Benefits
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>1. Weak Stomach Qi: During the second to third month of pregnancy, nausea and vomiting, epigastric distension, food intolerance, fatigue, dizziness, sleepiness, white tongue coating, pale tongue, and weak, slippery pulse. Choose foods that strengthen the stomach, harmonize the middle energizer, and descend counterflow to stop vomiting.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>1. Ginger Juice Rice Porridge: Mix 5–7 drops of ginger juice into rice porridge and sip frequently.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>2. Orange Decoction: One orange, washed, cut into 4 pieces (with peel), add a little honey, decoct into a tea, sip frequently.
<p class=MsoNormal>3. Sandalwood Seed Lotus Root Powder: Mix 1.5g sandalwood seed and 1g magnolia flower into powder, combine with lotus root powder and sugar, and stir into hot water.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>4. White Kidney Bean Juice: Boil 10g white kidney beans into juice, take with 1.5g sandalwood seed powder.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>2. Liver Fire Rising: TCM holds that pregnancy often involves heat. Thus, most cases of pregnancy vomiting involve liver and stomach heat. Typical symptoms include vomiting bitter or sour fluid, distension and fullness in chest and epigastrium, belching, sighing (long exhaling), headache and fullness, irritability, red tip and edges of the tongue, yellowish coating, and wiry, slippery pulse. Recommend foods that clear heat, harmonize the stomach, cool blood, and stabilize pregnancy.
<p class=MsoNormal>1. Watermelon Juice: Extract juice from watermelon and sip frequently.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>2. Mung Bean Drink: Boil 50g mung beans into tea and sip frequently.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>3. Loquat Drink: 10g fresh loquat leaf (brush off hairs), 10g fresh reed root, decoct and drink as tea.
<p class=MsoNormal>
<p class=MsoNormal>4. Snow Pear Puree: One large snow pear, slice thinly, boil briefly, cool down, and drink frequently at any time.