Can taking blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine cause miscarriage?

There are many drugs that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and can treat blood stasis and relieve and cure various symptoms of the human body. However, not everyone is suitable for taking blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs, such as pregnant women. Because this can cause miscarriage in pregnant women, it is very dangerous for the safety of pregnant women and fetuses. Next, I will introduce you to the relevant knowledge of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs.

1. Symptoms of blood stasis

Generally speaking, blood stasis is more common in elderly people with coronary heart disease. The typical symptoms of this group of people are often accompanied by shortness of breath, heartache and other discomforts; there are often needle-like pains somewhere in the body, which are more severe at night; the complexion is dull and lifeless, and they are prone to dark circles under the eyes. Professor Yang Li from Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences said that there are three causes of blood stasis:

1. Trauma without wound only causes local bruises, swelling and pain.

2. Poor or weak blood circulation.

3. Affected by cold or heat, blood stagnation occurs.

2. Blood-activating and stasis-removing drugs

Any medicine that has the function of clearing blood vessels, promoting blood flow, and dissipating blood stasis is called blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine, also known as blood-activating medicine. The method of using blood-activating drugs to treat blood circulation disorders and internal blood stasis is called blood-activating method. Blood-activating drugs are mostly pungent, bitter, and salty in flavor, and cold, warm, and neutral in nature. They mainly belong to the liver and heart meridians and are used to treat chest and flank pain, rheumatic pain, scars and lumps, swelling and pain from sores, bruises and pain, as well as irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and postpartum abdominal pain due to blood stasis.

According to the different characteristics of the drug effects, they can be divided into blood nourishing and blood activating drugs, such as Salvia miltiorrhiza, Angelica sinensis, Paeonia lactiflora, etc.; blood activating and blood stasis removing drugs, such as Chuanxiong, Carthamus tinctorius, Pollen Typhae, etc.; blood stasis removing and analgesic drugs, such as frankincense, myrrh, Corydalis yanhusuo, etc.; blood-breaking and knot-dispersing drugs, such as Trillium, Curcuma zedoaria, Persica kernel, etc.

Blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs can not only remove blood stasis and promote new blood, dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation, and increase blood flow to treat diseases of poor blood circulation, such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, gynecological diseases, and traumatic diseases, but also regulate the functions of internal organs by activating blood circulation, promote metabolism, increase one's own disease resistance, and delay aging.

3. Precautions for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis

1. Blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs are suitable for various blood stasis diseases, but each has its own advantages and disadvantages and needs to be selected appropriately according to the specific condition.

2. Blood stasis often leads to poor Qi circulation. To enhance the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, it is often used together with Qi-regulating drugs. If there are blood stasis and ulcers, it can be used together with heat-clearing drugs.

3. Blood-activating and stasis-removing drugs often have the risk of damaging blood, so you must pay attention to the dosage when using them, and it is advisable to use them with blood-nourishing drugs as appropriate.

4. For those with blood stasis and qi deficiency, it can be used together with qi-tonifying medicine.

5. Women with heavy menstruation and pregnant women should avoid or use blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs with caution.