What Chinese medicine should I take for postpartum night sweats?
Spontaneous sweating and night sweats are regarded by Chinese medicine as sweating leakage caused by imbalance of yin and yang and unstable acupoints. Those who are not affected by external environmental factors and sweat for no reason during the day and sweat more during exercise are called spontaneous sweating; People consciously sweat after sleeping at night, and those who don't sweat after waking up are called night sweats. So, what food do you eat for night sweats?
1, Qige Huangqi porridge
Ingredients: 200g of rice, pigeon meat100g, 30g of Lycium barbarum, 30g of Astragalus membranaceus, and proper amount of refined salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil. Practice: aluminum pot gets angry, add appropriate amount of water, add astragalus decoction to take juice, and take it twice repeatedly; Wash pigeon meat and chop it into paste; Wash rice and medlar for later use. Heat the pot again, add a proper amount of water, add rice, Astragalus juice, pigeon paste and Lycium barbarum, cook on low heat until the rice is thick, then add refined salt and monosodium glutamate, and pour in sesame oil and mix well. Efficacy: This prescription is suitable for night sweats and unstable lung and health.
2. Dangshen Yuzhu Oyster Soup
Ingredients: fresh oyster meat100g, codonopsis pilosula and Polygonatum sibiricum 30g each. Practice: Wash fresh oysters, codonopsis pilosula and Polygonatum odoratum, drain the water for later use, put the pot on strong fire, add appropriate amount of water, add fresh oysters, codonopsis pilosula and Polygonatum odoratum, simmer for 1 hour, and then add refined salt to taste. Efficacy: This prescription is suitable for night sweats due to yin deficiency and excessive fire.
3, Ziziphus jujuba seed glutinous rice porridge
Ingredients: Semen Ziziphi Spinosae 20g, glutinous rice 50g, and a little brown sugar. Practice: break the Ziziphus jujuba seeds, put them into gauze bags, and wash the glutinous rice for later use. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, boil it, put it in a gauze bag of glutinous rice and Ziziphus jujuba seeds, and cook porridge in the usual way. When the porridge is cooked, add brown sugar. Efficacy: This prescription is suitable for night sweats caused by disharmony between camp and health.
4, Trichosanthes kirilowii almond porridge 5 materials: Trichosanthes kirilowii15g, almonds10g, japonica rice100g, 4 red dates, 25g rock sugar. Practice: Wash Trichosanthes kirilowii, peel and sharpen almonds, put Trichosanthes kirilowii and almonds in 100g water and cook for 25 minutes, remove residues and leave juice for later use. Wash the japonica rice, remove the core from the red dates, put them into the pot together, add 800g of clear water, bring them to a boil with strong fire, add the prepared juice and rock sugar, and the rice will be cooked thoroughly. Efficacy: This prescription is suitable for night sweats due to yin deficiency and excessive fire.
5. Schizonepeta porridge
Ingredients: Herba Schizonepetae, Herba Menthae and Douchi each 30g, japonica rice100g, refined salt and monosodium glutamate. Practice: Wash the Schizonepeta Spike and Mint, put them in aluminum pot together with the fermented beans, add appropriate amount of water, boil them on high fire, then cook them on low fire for 15 minutes, and remove the residue and leave the juice for later use. Put the cleaned japonica rice into aluminum pot, add the prepared juice, bring it to a boil with strong fire, add a little refined salt, and cook it with low fire. Add monosodium glutamate to taste. Efficacy: This prescription is suitable for night sweats caused by damp-heat stagnation and steaming.
What should children eat for night sweats?
1. Physiological night sweats: For physiological night sweats, medication is generally not recommended, but corresponding measures are taken to eliminate the factors that cause high fever in life. For example, children have too many activities before going to bed, or the whole meal of high-calorie food leads to sweating at night, so it is necessary to control children's activities before going to bed and food intake, which is also conducive to sleep, control children's obesity, and benefit children's physical and mental health. Some children sweat at night because the room temperature is too high or the quilt is too thick. The bedroom temperature is 24℃ ~ 28℃ in winter; The thickness of the quilt should increase or decrease with the change of temperature.
Generally speaking, if parents pay attention to the above causes that easily lead to aggravation of fever and give treatment, the chance of night sweats will naturally decrease. Even if the child occasionally has one or two night sweats, don't worry too much. Night sweats mainly lose water and salt, which can be supplemented by a reasonable daily diet.
2. Pathological night sweats can be treated by dietotherapy.
Method 1:
20g of astragalus root, 50g of japonica rice, and proper amount of sugar. Fry astragalus juice, cook rice and porridge with the juice, add sugar to taste, and take it warm.
Efficacy Tip: Astragalus is sweet and slightly warm. Has the effects of invigorating qi, invigorating yang, strengthening exterior surface and stopping sweating.
Method 2:
Rehmannia glutinosa 1 50g, black broilers1only, maltose100g. Chopping Radix Rehmanniae, mixing with maltose, and steaming in chicken abdomen.
Efficacy: the raw land is sweet, the nature is cold, nourishing yin and cooling blood. Black-bone chicken is sweet in taste and flat in nature, which can tonify deficiency and cure thirst, nausea and abdominal pain. This recipe has the function of nourishing yin and stopping night sweats.
Second, the nursing methods
Whether it is physiological night sweats or pathological night sweats, nursing is very important.
1. After the child has night sweats, dry the skin with a dry towel in time, change clothes in time, and move briskly to avoid the child catching cold.
2, pay attention to timely supplement water and salt. Oral rehydration salts (ORS) can be supplemented, or salt and sugar can be added to boiled water to promote the absorption of water and salt.
3, bedding should also be dried frequently, the role of sunlight is not only heating and drying, but also disinfection and sterilization.
In addition, children who are prone to night sweats should take physical exercise in a planned way, such as sunbathing and cold water bath, so as to enhance their physical fitness and improve their adaptability. Physical fitness is enhanced, night sweats will stop, and it will be better than any panacea.