Can I take Chinese medicine for threatened abortion?

Nowadays, many young people do not know as much about Chinese medicine as the elderly. When threatened abortion occurs, the elderly at home ask them to see a Chinese doctor and take Chinese medicine, but young women usually believe in Western medicine, which leads to conflicts with the elderly. Today we will find out, can Chinese medicine be taken for threatened abortion?

In traditional Chinese medicine, threatened abortion is not as simple as a miscarriage. This symptom can be divided into several situations. Let's take a look at traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of threatened abortion and its classification:

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause of threatened abortion is weak constitution or trauma from falls. Traditional Chinese medicine has a good effect by differentiating and treating the disease based on different causes.

TCM classification and treatment of threatened abortion:

1. Threatened abortion due to kidney deficiency: The main symptoms are a small amount of vaginal bleeding during pregnancy, with light and dark color, back pain, lower abdominal pain, or accompanied by dizziness, tinnitus, frequent urination, nocturia, or a history of spontaneous abortion, pale tongue with white coating, deep and slippery pulse, and weak pulse on both feet.

The treatment should be to nourish the kidney and stabilize the fetus. Use Shoutai Pills with added ingredients: 15 grams each of Cuscuta australis, Lycium barbarum, Viscum album, Rubus idaeus, and Dipsacus asper, 20 grams of donkey-hide gelatin, 3 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, 10 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula and Atractylodes macrocephala. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into morning and evening.

2. Threatened abortion due to deficiency of Qi and blood: The main symptoms are a small amount of vaginal bleeding during pregnancy, which is light red and thin, or distension and pain in the waist and abdomen, accompanied by fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, palpitations and insomnia, pale tongue, thin white fur, and a thin and smooth pulse.

The treatment should be to replenish qi and nourish blood, strengthen the kidney and stabilize the fetus. The prescription of Taiyuan Drink is modified: 15 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula and Rehmannia glutinosa, 10 grams each of Atractylodes macrocephala, White Peony Root, Eucommia ulmoides and Longan Meat, 6 grams each of Tangerine Peel and Roasted Licorice, 20 grams each of Astragalus and Donkey-hide Gelatin. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, taken twice a day, morning and evening.

3. Blood-heat type threatened abortion: Experts say that the main symptoms of blood-heat type threatened abortion are vaginal bleeding during pregnancy, which is bright red and sticky, or distension and pain in the waist and abdomen, accompanied by irritability, hot hands and feet, dry mouth and throat, short and yellow urine, constipation, or fever in the afternoon, red tongue with yellow and dry coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment should be to nourish yin and clear away heat, nourish blood and stabilize the fetus. The prescription is Baoyin decoction with added ingredients: 20g of yam, 10g each of raw rehmannia, cooked rehmannia, white peony root, Dipsacus asper, Phellodendron chinense, Scutellaria baicalensis, ramie root, donkey-hide gelatin, 3g of raw licorice, 15g each of Ligustrum lucidum, Eclipta prostrata, Cuscuta australis, decocted in water, 1 dose per day, taken twice a day in the morning and evening.

Through the above introduction, I believe everyone has seen that traditional Chinese medicine is very experienced in treating threatened abortion. As long as you take the medicine under the guidance of a regular Chinese medicine practitioner, Chinese medicine treatment for threatened abortion is an excellent treatment method.