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Postpartum diarrhea

产后泄泻 〔產後泄瀉〕 chǎn hòu xiè xiè

Diarrhea occurring after delivery owing to nonmovement of the lochia affecting spleen function. Postpartum diarrhea takes the form of incontinent throughflux diarrhea with green-blue, black, and white stool.

Medicinal therapy: Use Truly Wondrous Powder (的奇散 dì qí sǎn), comprising four or five awns of schizonepeta (Schizonepetae Herba, 荆芥 jīng jiè), burned to cinders in an oil lamp mixed with a pinch of musk (Moschus, 麝香 shè xiāng) taken with hot water.

See diarrhea.

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