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Postpartum wind-stroke arises from the injury to Qi and Blood during childbirth, damaging the Zang-Fu organs. If the body has not yet recovered and one rises early to labor, Qi deficiency allows Wind pathogen to take advantage. Cold Qi lodges in the skin and meridians, causing pain, Bi syndrome (painful obstruction), emaciation, and fatigue, making one unable to bear even slight shortness of breath. When tendons and vessels are combined with Cold, spasms and contractures or facial paralysis occur; when combined with Warmth (Heat), they present as flaccidity, laxity, and weakness. If the pathogen enters the Zang-Fu organs, it causes mental confusion and palpitations, generating diseases according to the specific Zang-Fu organs and meridians injured. However, *Da Quan* states: Women rely primarily on Ying Blood. Due to excessive blood loss during childbirth, Qi loses its master anchor, leading to cyanotic lips, cold flesh, sweating, dizziness, coma, and life hanging by a thread. This is internal Wind generated by extreme deficiency. Treating this with Wind-dispelling herbs would be a mistake. Regardless of the symptoms, major warming and tonification should be administered. Use Shiquan Dabu Tang (Complete Ten Tonifying Decoction) added with Fuzi (Aconite Lateral Root). Have someone straighten the patient's body, another hold the face upright, open the mouth, and administer the decoction. If it cannot go down, tilt the head sideways to let it drain out, then continue administering. For heat patterns, administer while hot and cold alternately; after several times, it can be swallowed, and the patient will recover consciousness shortly. This is the method of Xue Lizhai.

Postpartum blood deficiency causing opisthotonos (rigid arching of the back like a bow) is named Jing disease (Spasm). "Jing" means stiffness and strength. Sudden deficiency of Yin Qi leads to Yin deficiency and internal Heat; extreme Heat generates Wind. Thus, external signs mimic Wind pathogen, but it is actually due to insufficient Yin Blood failing to nourish the tendons. This is a sign of extreme deficiency of the Jueyin channel. One should benefit Yin and tonify Blood; once Blood grows, the deficient Wind will naturally extinguish.

Postpartum wind-stroke with trismus (lockjaw) occurs because Qi and Blood are deficient, allowing Wind to enter the tendons of the mandible, cheeks, and mouth. The tendons of the Three Yang channels knot at the mandible. Prior to childbirth, damage to Zang-Fu organs injures the tendons and vessels. Wind takes advantage of this, causing the tendons and vessels of the Three Yang channels to become relatively weak. Upon encountering Wind-Cold, they contract, resulting in lockjaw. Furthermore, if Heart Qi is extremely deficient, speech is impossible, leading to lockjaw. In such cases, within vigorous tonification, one must simultaneously use herbs that unblock and regulate Heart Qi.

Postpartum opisthotonos results from the depletion of Qi and Blood, loose interstices (couli), excessive sweating, loss of mental mastery, and failure of bones and tendons to receive nourishment, presenting as this deficiency pattern. It indicates extreme deficiency of Qi and Blood. Large doses of Renshen (Ginseng Root), Guizhi (Cinnamon Twig), [missing character], Baizhu (Atractylodes Macrocephala Rhizome), Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root), and Dihuang (Rehmannia Root) should be used for warming and nourishing. If there is no response, add Fuzi (Aconite Lateral Root) and double the dose of Renshen, named Shenfu Tang (Ginseng and Aconite Decoction). If still no response, it is because the medicinal power has not yet taken effect; one should continue using it in larger amounts.