Insufficient Lactation

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

产后乳汁少甚或全无，乳汁稀薄，乳房柔软无胀感；面色少华，倦怠乏力；舌淡苔薄白，脉细弱

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Postpartum milk supply is very low or absent, with noticeably inadequate nursing volume.
  • The milk is thin and watery, with a clear consistency that lacks thickness.
  • The breasts feel soft to the touch, without a sense of fullness or distending pain.
  • The complexion is pale with little color, appearing dull and lusterless.
  • Easily feels fatigued and weak, with low overall energy and spirits.
  • The tongue is pale in color with a thin, white coating that is lightly covering.
  • The pulse is thin and weak, lacking strength upon pressure.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补气养血，佐以通乳

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help replenish the body’s Qi and Blood, relieving discomforts such as fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, or dizziness and palpitations.
  • Supports the smooth flow of milk secretion, alleviating symptoms such as insufficient milk supply or breast distension and discomfort.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

产后乳汁分泌少，甚或全无，乳房胀硬疼痛，乳汁稠；伴胸胁胀满，情志抑郁，食欲不振；舌质正常，苔薄黄，脉弦或弦滑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Postpartum milk supply is markedly low or absent, breasts are distended, hard and painful, and the milk is relatively thick.
  • The chest and hypochondriac areas feel distended, mood is low and depressed, and there is poor appetite.
  • The tongue appears generally normal, with a thin, slightly yellow coating.
  • The pulse feels taut when pressed, and may be wiry and slippery.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏肝解郁，通络下乳

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps soothe Liver Qi, alleviating discomforts such as chest and hypochondriac distension, emotional depression, or frequent sighing.
  • Promotes the smooth flow of meridians and downward movement of milk, reducing symptoms such as milk stasis or breast distension.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

乳汁少甚或无乳可下，乳房硕大或下垂不胀满，乳汁不稠；形体肥胖，胸闷痰多，纳少便溏，或食多乳少；舌淡胖，苔腻，脉沉细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Milk supply is very low or even absent.
  • Breasts are large or pendulous but not full.
  • Milk is not thick.
  • The body tends toward being overweight.
  • Chest tightness and excessive phlegm.
  • Poor appetite, loose stools, or eating a lot but still having low milk supply.
  • The tongue is pale and enlarged.
  • The tongue coating is greasy.
  • The pulse feels deep and thin.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

健脾化痰通乳

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps strengthen the Spleen and Stomach and resolve Phlegm Turbidity, alleviating discomforts such as poor appetite, abdominal bloating, loose stools, or sticky phlegm cough.
  • Promotes unobstructed milk secretion, reducing symptoms such as absent milk flow or breast distension, pain, and hardness.

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