1, the efficacy of Siwu decoction
(1) Tonifying blood and nourishing blood
The four ingredients in Siwutang can promote blood circulation and nourish blood, effectively dissipate blood clots, and make congestion metabolized more smoothly. Siwu decoction is especially suitable for women with dysmenorrhea, which can fully relieve various uncomfortable symptoms of dysmenorrhea. For people with anemia, it is even more necessary to drink Siwu decoction, which has sufficient effect of invigorating qi and enriching blood.
(2) Beauty skin
Siwu decoction is an excellent medicinal material for warming and nourishing. Siwu decoction warms the palace along with qi, which improves the problem of cold hands and feet of women. Whether women's skin is shiny or not has a great relationship with the inside. The health of the internal physiological environment can make women's skin more shiny and beautiful. Women who love beauty and tonics should never miss this siwu soup.
(3) strengthen the body
Siwutang can be cooked with suitable ingredients in four seasons according to the change of seasons. Siwutang can strengthen the body and improve fatigue for office workers.
(4) regulating menstruation and relieving pain
Many women can't work normally because of menstrual cramps. Siwu Decoction can help promote blood circulation and remove blood clots, and relieve abdominal distension and abdominal pain, so that menstrual blood can be discharged smoothly. In addition, Siwutang can supplement iron to reduce anemia, dizziness and menstrual bleeding during menstrual cramps.
2. When do you drink Siwutang?
Siwutang can replenish blood but not stagnate blood, promote blood but not break blood, tonify and disperse, disperse and collect, and can be used all year round. Siwutang is best to be drunk after menstruation, in the morning, at noon and before dinner 1 hour, for a week, which can achieve the effect of enriching blood and invigorating qi.
If you take it every day, it will cause excessive menstrual blood, shortness of breath and even pallor. Therefore, it is generally not recommended to take Siwu Decoction, Siwu Drink or Zhongtang as daily supplements. If you take it for a long time, it may cause hormonal imbalance in the body and even induce uterine lesions. Be sure to ask a Chinese medicine practitioner before using it. In addition, you can't drink Siwu Tang when you have a cold, so as not to get angry and aggravate your condition.
3. Who should not drink Siwutang?
(1) abnormal period
Early physiological period and bright red color of menstrual blood are all signs of blood heat in traditional Chinese medicine, and it is generally not suitable for drinking Siwu decoction. If there is pain or blood clots during menstruation, endometriosis or other gynecological diseases may be considered, and the problem should be found first.
(2) Thermal constitution
People who are prone to dry mouth, broken mouth, dreamy sleep and poor sleep, itchy skin, irritability and sore throat, belong to a hot constitution, and are not suitable for drinking warming Siwu decoction.
(3) ongoing inflammation
For example, bloodshot eyes or cold, etc., are not suitable for drinking Siwu Decoction. Because Siwu decoction will accelerate blood circulation, but it will make inflammation and swelling more intense.
(4) Poor gastrointestinal function.
People who usually have a bad appetite and are prone to diarrhea and stomach swelling, the prepared rehmannia root in Siwu decoction is sticky and not easy to absorb, the acid and cold of white peony root hurts the stomach, and angelica sinensis is easy to cause diarrhea, so it should be adjusted.
4. How to avoid side effects
(1) Reduce the dosage of Ligusticum chuanxiong for blood fever;
(2) Rehmannia glutinosa should be used for deficiency-cold constitution, and rehmannia glutinosa should be used for heat constitution;
(3) When it is necessary to supplement and clear away heat, the raw land and the prepared land are equally divided;
(4) Radix Scrophulariae should be added to dry mouth.
5. What's the best way to drink Siwutang?
1. People with cold constitution can choose the basic four ingredients plus Poria cocos, red dates and white lentils to cook soup. Red dates are warm and suitable for conditioning cold constitution.
2. People with heat constitution should change the rehmannia glutinosa into a holy land when drinking Siwu decoction, and add asparagus to cook the soup together. The rehmannia glutinosa is cool and has the effect of annealing and enriching blood.
3. People with blood deficiency can add Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos and Polygonatum sibiricum when cooking Siwu decoction, which can replenish qi and blood at the same time.
4. People with qi deficiency constitution should take Codonopsis pilosula and Poria together in Siwu Decoction. Codonopsis pilosula can tonify spleen and lung, promote erythropoiesis, and Poria has the effect of invigorating spleen and qi.