What is the best thing to eat during menstruation?
During menstruation, you should also add some foods that are beneficial to the "water journey", such as mutton, chicken, red dates, bean curd skin, apples, coix seed, milk, brown sugar, longan and so on.
When there are symptoms such as poor appetite and low back pain, you should choose nutritious, spleen-invigorating, appetizing and digestible foods, such as jujube, noodles and barley porridge. In order to keep the nutritional balance, we should eat fresh vegetables and fruits at the same time. Food is mainly fresh, which is not only delicious and easy to absorb, but also has less nutritional damage.
1, avoid cold food and eat warm food.
Chinese medicine believes that hot blood will do, and cold blood will stagnate. Eating cold food during menstrual period is not conducive to digestion, and it is easy to hurt human yang, leading to internal cold and cold stagnation, which can make menstrual blood run poorly, leading to too little menstrual blood and even dysmenorrhea. Even in hot summer, it is not advisable to eat cold drinks during menstruation.
Menstrual diet should be warm, choose kelp, jujube, sorghum rice, coix seed, mutton, apple and other foods, and eat less cold and diarrhea foods such as pear, water chestnut, wax gourd, kale and hemp seed.
2, do not eat hot and sour food.
During menstruation, women feel particularly tired, their digestive function is weakened and their appetite is poor. Therefore, the food should be light and easy to digest and absorb, and avoid eating foods that are too sour and irritating, such as hawthorn, sauerkraut, vinegar, pepper, mustard and pepper.
3, prevent iron deficiency, vegetarian collocation.
Iron is an essential trace element for human body. Iron not only participates in the synthesis of hemoglobin and many important enzymes, but also plays an important role in immunity, intelligence, aging and energy metabolism. Because of the loss of iron during menstruation, it is very important to supplement iron-rich foods. Fish, lean meat, animal liver, animal blood and so on. It is rich in iron, has high biological activity and is easy to be absorbed and utilized by human body; The iron absorption rate of plants rich in soybeans and spinach is low. Therefore, during menstruation, we should pay attention to the collocation of meat and vegetables and eat more animal foods appropriately to meet the special needs of iron during menstruation.
Dysmenorrhea is called dysmenorrhea when you feel abdominal pain or leg pain before or after menstruation. Causes of dysmenorrhea. Either because you have a cold drink, or because of the cold wave outside, or because of the imbalance of qi and blood, poor qi movement and blocked blood circulation. Damp-heat accumulation and stagnation of liver qi are often accompanied by loss of appetite, restlessness, fatigue and pallor. When epileptic seizures occur, the standard of 1 should be adopted for antiepileptic treatment, with prevention as the main factor, so as to achieve better therapeutic and cosmetic effects until the pain is relieved.
◆ Ginger, jujube and brown sugar water
Ingredients: 30g of dried ginger, 30g of jujube and 30g of brown sugar.
Practice: Wash the first two flavors, chop the dried ginger, remove the core from the jujube, add brown sugar to fry until cooked, and eat the jujube in soup.
Efficacy: It has the effect of warming meridians and dispelling cold. Suitable for cold dysmenorrhea and chloasma.