Tell you why China people "confinement" from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine?

Shanxi folk tradition

In confinement, the traditional practice of Shanxi folk is: you are not allowed to get out of bed for three days, you are not allowed to leave the house for one month, you are not allowed to go to the streets, and you are only allowed to eat and live indoors. The main thing is to take care of the health of the mother and the baby, and be afraid of making a moon disease. Maternal women should wear more clothes than usual, and their foreheads should be covered with handkerchiefs for fear of catching the wind. During confinement, you should eat moderately, especially don't eat too much. If you are full, it will hurt your spleen and stomach, causing symptoms that can never be cured. In rural Shanxi, most pregnant women are given millet porridge, eggs, dried noodles and noodles, and rice and other foods are rarely eaten. During confinement, pregnant women are forbidden to talk more for fear of causing tongue disease; It is forbidden for pregnant women to go to work for fear of overwork; Maternal women are forbidden to wash their hands with cold water for fear of damaging joints; At the same time, strangers are forbidden to enter the maternal and child room. Strangers enter the room for fear of "stepping on life" and making the baby sick. In the delivery room, even your own family members are generally not allowed in. Only mothers, mothers-in-law, husbands and other caregivers are allowed to enter, and even mothers' fathers and fathers-in-law can't meet until the mother is full-term.

Meizhou Hakka tradition

After giving birth, Hakka women should stay in their rooms and take care of themselves until after the full moon (usually 30 days). During the confinement period, the parturient enjoys the most generous treatment, comprehensive service, good diet and adequate rest, and becomes the central figure of the whole family.

During confinement, there are usually three meals and three snacks every day. The food is more exquisite. First, there must be nutrition, which is conducive to replenishing the body and increasing milk. Second, we should choose "warm, hot and flat" food, and avoid eating raw and cold food. Generally don't eat green vegetables, eat dried vegetables.

The most common and distinctive food eaten by lying-in women is chicken wine (including ginger, chicken and wine). Ginger needs old ginger, which is mostly used to cook chicken and eggs. Meizhou people cook chicken by frying ginger in an oil pan, adding glutinous rice wine and simmering. Eat chicken wine on the day after delivery, preferably a big cock (called "cock") that can dispel wind and cold, remove blood stasis and promote blood circulation. After that, you usually eat capons, especially chickens that have not laid eggs. Hakka women usually eat 10 to 30 chickens, 10 kg ginger and 30 kg glutinous rice wine during confinement.

During confinement, the mother does not do other housework except take care of the baby. Take a bath with some leaves (such as longan leaves, maple leaves, uprooted leaves, etc.). ) or the water that survived from the roots, which is disinfected and dispelled the wind.

How to treat confinement in TCM

Dr. Tang Qiaoling, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine: confinement is to replenish deficiency and remove blood stasis for about 42 days.

After giving birth to a child, a woman's qi and blood are damaged, and qi deficiency leads to blood stasis, blood stasis, lack of vital qi, and the outer membrane is not dense, but she is prone to cold, and her internal organs are weak. If she is not careful, she will be riddled with diseases. Therefore, it is very necessary to pay attention to postpartum conditioning. At this time, it is necessary to "sit on the moon".

During confinement, the general principle of nursed back to health is that the diet after delivery is mainly warm, light and low in salt, and spicy, greasy and indigestible foods are avoided; If you need to tonify drugs, the principle is to tonify qi and blood, remove blood stasis and dredge collaterals, and regulate the spleen and stomach.

In addition, if you don't pay attention to cold and warmth, "virtual evil thief wind" will take advantage of it and trigger a series of so-called "moon disease".

Traditional Chinese medicine postpartum famous prescription "Shenghua Decoction", nourishing blood and removing blood stasis, warming channels and relieving pain, is a common prescription for postpartum conditioning, which can be tried under the guidance of doctors.

In western medicine, confinement is called puerperium, which refers to the period when pregnant women gradually return to normal after 280 days of pregnancy (about 6-8 weeks). During the puerperium, the anatomy and physiology of the mother's whole body tissues and organs change greatly, coupled with the bleeding and physical exertion during childbirth and nursing of the baby, which leads to the decline of the body's immunity and the weakening of disease resistance, thus easily inducing diseases.

Zhu Xiaobao: From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the habit of confinement left by our ancestors is reasonable.

The period from delivery to physical recovery is called "puerperium", which is usually 6 weeks, almost 42 days, which is also commonly known as "confinement".

Many habits of Confucius have been passed down to this day, which are reasonable from the perspective of Chinese medicine, such as wearing a headscarf, not taking a shower, closing the window to keep out the wind, drinking soup, eating eggs and drinking brown sugar water.

Chinese medicine says that "the new parturient has three diseases: one is convulsion, the other is depression, and the third is difficulty in defecation ..."

"Newborns died of blood deficiency, sweating, and like stroke, so they cramped."

"Dead blood is sweating again, and it is cold, which makes you feel depressed."

"Dead body fluid, dry stomach, so it is difficult to defecate."

The reason why the new parturient has three diseases is because the fetus is prone to childbirth-related diseases, which are clinically called "postpartum diseases". How to prevent these "postpartum diseases" must start from the habit of the second month.

Don't take a bath, and don't open the window to keep out the cold.

The parturient loses too much blood after delivery, the gas is discharged with the blood, the sweat is not dense, and the cold evil takes advantage of it, so the deficiency can't drive away the evil, so she is afraid of catching cold, which leads to spasm, that is, muscle twitching, so wear a headscarf, close the window, and don't take a shower to prevent colds.

Egg brown sugar is blood tonic.

When the positive energy is insufficient, the exogenous evil can't come out, but it goes against the trend, leading to dizziness, ambiguity and depression. Therefore, to prevent such diseases, it is necessary to replenish blood and nutrition. This is the case with eggs and brown sugar.

In addition, soup is essential for pregnant women. No matter chicken soup, fish soup or other soups, one is to supplement nutrition, and the other is to make up soup to prevent defecation difficulties, just like an animal licking the mucus on its cub after giving birth, it is all for nourishing body fluid and protecting healthy qi.