What are the effects of musk on pregnant women?

As we all know, musk is an important Chinese medicinal material. It has a strong effect in promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and treating rheumatism. However, for pregnant women, some medicinal materials and drugs will have adverse effects on their bodies and the growth of the fetus in the abdomen. Therefore, pregnant women should try to avoid using some drugs, and musk is one of them.

Musk is a kind of Chinese medicinal material. Its medicinal source is the dried secretions from the glandular sacs of mature male Musk deer, such as the forest musk deer, the red musk deer or the wild musk deer.

Musk mainly contains 22.56% water, 3.62% ash (including potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, chlorine, sulfate, phosphate ions, etc.), oxygen-containing compounds (including 1.15% ammonium carbonate, 1.89% ammonia in ammonium salts, 0.40% urea, 1.07% amino acid nitrogen, and 9.15% total nitrogen), 2.19% cholesterol, 0.59% crude fiber, 5.15% fatty acids, and 1.2% musk ketone. The main active ingredient of musk is musk ketone.

Musk is a central nervous system stimulant. In Western medicine, it is used as a cardiotonic stimulant and other emergency medicines. In traditional Chinese medicine, it has the functions of dispersing blood stasis, smoothing muscles, and inducing labor, thus inducing abortion. Pregnant women are prohibited from taking this drug. Studies have also shown that natural musk can stimulate the uterus and intensify uterine contractions, which has anti-implantation and anti-early pregnancy effects, that is, it has a contraceptive effect. However, this effect is not immediate. It will only play a contraceptive role if used for a long time.

Musk is mainly pungent and aromatic. It can promote blood circulation, relieve pain, open up the orifices and refresh the brain, remove dirt and filth, and has a good effect on rheumatism, arthralgia, coma or poisoning, etc. For pregnant women, the main problem is that it can easily cause uterine contractions, miscarriage in early pregnancy, and premature birth in late pregnancy. It's generally not a big problem to just smell it a little, but smelling it frequently may be harmful.

In addition, current musk creams are basically artificial musk, which cannot be compared with real musk in strength, so don't worry too much. It is recommended that you let him stop using similar ointments for the time being and switch to other odorless ones.

What are the effects of musk on pregnant women? From the description in the article, we can know that musk can easily cause symptoms of uterine contractions in pregnant women. The effects of musk on pregnant women are different at different stages of pregnancy. Miscarriage is a serious consequence of women's exposure to musk during pregnancy. Therefore, pregnant women must avoid using musk.