Abdominal pain, postpartum

Indications Indigestion and retention of food, abdominal distention, anorexia, abdominal pain and diarrhea postpartum abdominal pain and lochiorrhea due to blood retention hypertension hyperlipemia angina pectoris of coronary heart disease. 

Obstetric infections include infections which occur during pregnancy, delivery and in the postpartum period, and which affect the uterus or its content. Clinical entities are amnionitis, and post partum or post-caesarean endometritis and infected abortion. Symptoms are lower abdominal pain, fever and eventually foetid amniotic fluid or lochia. 

Indications 1) External invasion, wind cold in cases of exterior vacuity of the taiyang, 2) internal diseases with loss of harmony between the constructive and defensive, such as after prolonged disease or postpartum. Common cold, neuralgia, headache, abdominal pain due to chills, bodily weakness and vacuity, eclampsia, and neurasthenia. 

Indications Blood stasis, stoppage, and stagnation. Retention of lochia, dysmenorrhea, angina pectoris, amenorrhea, irregular menstruation, postpartum abdominal pain, and endometriosis... 

For postpartum chest and/or abdominal pain, add Fructus Crataegi (Shan Zha). 

Significant side effects are those associated with its abortifacient properties and other smooth muscle contraction effects, e.g., diarrhea and abdominal pain. Misoprostol also is an effective cervical ripening agent (by vaginal application) for the induction of labor. Other unlabeled uses include the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage and, with mifepristone, termination of pregnancy. 

The dried fruits of Tetradium (Euodia) rutaecarpa have long been used in Chinese medicine for the treatment of headaches, abdominal pain, dysentery, postpartum hemorrhage, and amenorrhea (Bergman, 1983). The alkaloids from these fruits have marked uterotonic effects (King et al., 1980). 

Main signs symptoms Dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, loss of sleep, blurred vision, lusterless facial complexion and nails, generalized muscular tension, irregular menstruation with scant flow or blood lumps and clots, possible amenorrhea, occasional aching and pain, restless fetus during pregnancy, downward precipitation of blood which will not stop, postpartum lochia which will not stop, abdominal masses, lower abdominal... 

Main signs symptoms Lancinating pain in the heart or abdomen, possible postpartum non-movement of the lochia, possible menstrual irregularity, lower abdominal tension and pain, a dark red tongue with possible static patches or spots, a choppy, wiry, or knotted (i.e., bound) pulse... 

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