Ways to relieve dysmenorrhea 1, balanced diet Although a healthy diet cannot eliminate menstrual pain, it has a magical effect on improving general health. Avoid junk food that is too sweet or salty, which will make you flatulent and slow down. Eat more vegetables, fruits, chicken and fish, and eat as little as possible. 2. Supplementing minerals such as calcium, potassium and magnesium also helps to relieve menstrual pain. Experts have found that women who take calcium have less dysmenorrhea than women who don't take calcium. Magnesium is also important because it helps the body absorb calcium effectively. May wish to increase the intake of calcium and magnesium on the eve and during menstruation. 3. Avoid caffeine contained in coffee, tea, cola and chocolate, which will make you nervous and may cause discomfort during menstruation. Therefore, caffeine should be avoided. In addition, the oil contained in coffee may also stimulate the small intestine. 4, prohibition of alcohol If you are prone to edema during menstruation, alcohol will aggravate this problem. Don't drink. If you have to drink, limit it to 1-2 glasses of wine. 5, do not use diuretics Many women think that diuretics can reduce menstrual swelling and discomfort, but Dr. Lacker opposes this method. Diuretics excrete important minerals together with water. Dr. Lacker suggested reducing the intake of substances that can keep water in the body, such as salt and alcohol. 6. Keeping warm will speed up blood circulation and relax muscles, especially the cramped and congested pelvis. Drink more hot herbal tea or hot lemon juice. You can also put a hot compress pad or thermos bottle on your abdomen for a few minutes. 7. Take a mineral spring bath and add 1 cup of sea salt and 1 cup of sodium bicarbonate to the warm water tank. Soak for 20 minutes, which helps to relax muscles and relieve menstrual pain. 8. Exercise, especially on the eve of menstruation, walking or engaging in other moderate exercise will make you more comfortable during menstruation. 9. Practice yoga, and doing yoga also has a relaxing effect. Examples are as follows. Bend your knees and sit on your heels. Keep your forehead on the ground and keep your arms straight against your sides. Keep this position until you feel uncomfortable. 10, taking painkillers aspirin and acetaminophen can relieve menstrual pain. But the more effective Chinese medicines are Advil, Haltran, Medipren, Nuprin and so on. These drugs contain ibuprofen, which can inhibit the action of prostaglandin. When dysmenorrhea begins, take some milk or food (1 tablet) to avoid hurting the stomach, and continue taking it until dysmenorrhea disappears. 1 1, other solutions The acupressure method contains some acupressure points, which are considered to be connected with the airway of the pelvis. There are acupressure points in the depressions on both sides of the ankle. Gently pinch it with your thumb and other fingertips, and then follow the achilles tendon up to the calf muscle. When the right foot is finished, change the left foot and press each finger for a few minutes. 12, family self-treatment 1. Massage: First press navel, Qihai, Guanyuan, Zhongji, Huigui and Sanyinjiao with your thumb for half a minute. Then lie on your back, press and knead the lower abdomen (below the navel) with your right palm for about 3 minutes, and then press and knead the pubic symphysis (the high bone in front of the vulva) for 30 minutes from the navel. Self-massage is required before menstruation 1 week, once a day 1 time, and ends 3 days after menstruation is clean. 2. Moxibustion: (1) Take Guanyuan, Qihai, Qugu, Mourning and Sanyinjiao points. According to the gentle moxibustion method of moxa stick, three acupoints are selected at a time, and each acupoint is moxibustion for about 20 minutes, and the course of treatment is 4 days. Those with severe low back pain should be moxibustion at Shenshu point. Four times for 1 course of treatment, with an interval of 4 days, which is suitable for dysmenorrhea. Generally, moxibustion is applied 2 days before menstrual cramps. (2) Take Shenque and uterine points. Moxibustion is performed according to the conventional moxibustion method. Take Radix Cyathulae, Olibanum, Myrrha, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, Carthami Flos, Radix Paeoniae Rubra and Radix Aucklandiae, apply the medicine, grind into fine powder, add Borneolum Syntheticum, mix well and bottle for later use. When moxibustion is applied, take 30g of medicine each time, mix it into paste with proper amount of ginger juice (or yellow wine), apply it to Shenque point and uterine point respectively, cover it with gauze (or oil paper), and fix the plaster. Change dressing every 2 days 1 time, and moxibustion 3 days before menstruation (or menstrual period). 3. Scraping: mainly scraping Dazhui, Jianjing point, big raft and plaster blindness, and scraping Guanyuan to Zhongji and Diji to Sanyinjiao for 5 times. Liver depression plus scraping Taichong point, deficiency of qi and blood plus scraping Zusanli and Mingmen point. Gently scrape Zusanli and Mingmen points for 3 minutes; Scrape other acupoints for 3 ~ 5 minutes. 4. Cupping: Take Shenshu point, chest and waist (back) point, two sides of sacrum point and Xiawan point, select glass cupping with appropriate size, and use flash fire method to adsorb cupping on the selected parts. Only 2-3 cupping cups can be pulled at a time, lasting for 25-30 minutes, 1 time every day, and 7 7- 10/time is a course of treatment. 5. Usage: (1) Take 50g each of Angelica sinensis, Evodia rutaecarpa, Olibanum, Myrrha, Cinnamomum cassia and Asarum, and 3g of camphor. Firstly, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Fructus Evodiae, Olibanum, Myrrha, Cortex Cinnamomi and Asari are decocted in water twice, and the decoction is concentrated into paste, mixed with appropriate amount of Olibanum and Myrrha (dissolved in 95% ethanol), dried, ground into fine powder, and camphor is added for later use. Take 5g of powder three days before menstruation, make it into paste with yellow wine, apply umbilical cord externally, and fix it with adhesive tape. When the medicine is dry, change it to 1 time. (2) Cinnamomum cassia 10g, Evodia rutaecarpa 20g and fennel 20g are ground into powder, and the umbilical cord is evenly mixed with Chinese liquor, and the umbilical cord is hot-compressed 1 time every day for three days before menstruation, which is suitable for dysmenorrhea caused by cold coagulation and blood stasis. 13, diet: honey milk method Drinking a cup of hot milk with a spoonful of honey before going to bed every night can alleviate or even eliminate the pain of dysmenorrhea. Why do two such ordinary foods have such great power? It turns out that milk is rich in potassium thanks to two minerals, potassium and magnesium, and honey is a "rich mine" of magnesium. Studies have shown that potassium is very important for the conduction of nerve impulses, the coagulation process of blood and the function of all cells in human body. It can relieve mood, inhibit pain, prevent infection and reduce menstrual blood loss. Magnesium can help maintain the normal levels of nerve impulse conduction and neurohormonal active substances in the brain. In the late period of menstruation, magnesium can also play a psychological adjustment role, help the body relax, eliminate tension and reduce stress. It is particularly worth mentioning that taking vitamins is a B vitamin with remarkable effect on premenstrual tension, and B6 is the most important B vitamin. This vitamin can stabilize mood, help sleep, make people energetic and relieve abdominal pain. Bananas contain more, so women with dysmenorrhea may wish to eat more. Dietary conditioning principles for dysmenorrhea 1. Reasonable nutrition and vitamin E supplementation. The requirement of reasonable nutrition mainly means that food should contain all the nutrients needed by human body, including protein, fat, sugar, vitamins, inorganic salts, water and cellulose. Vitamin E can maintain the normal function of reproductive organs and muscle metabolism. Foods with high vitamin E content include cereal germ, wheat germ, egg yolk, beans, hard fruits, leafy vegetables, peanut oil and sesame oil. Patients with dysmenorrhea should eat more of these foods. Secondly, according to the dialectical needs of different manifestations of dysmenorrhea, we should give foods that warm and dredge qi stagnation, remove blood stasis and tonify deficiency respectively. Those who are cold, qi stagnation and afraid of cold should eat some foods that warm the meridians and dispel the cold, such as mutton, dog meat, sparrow meat, sparrow eggs, hippocampus, chestnuts, lychee, brown sugar, ginger, fennel and pepper. People with qi stagnation and blood stasis should eat more foods that promote blood circulation and ventilation, such as celery, shepherd's purse, spinach, leek, coriander, spinach, ginger, carrot, immature bitter orange, dried tangerine peel, bergamot, banana and apple. People with weak constitution and insufficient qi and blood should eat more products that can invigorate qi, enrich blood and tonify kidney, such as chicken, black-bone chicken, chicken blood, lean pork, pig liver, pig blood, beef liver, mutton, deer blood, eggs, milk, fish, eel, turtle meat, sea cucumber, shark, walnut kernel, litchi, longan, jujube and mulberry. Third, you can drink alcohol properly. Alcohol can warm yang, activate qi and dispel cold. Drinking some rice wine, koji wine or fermented wine properly can remove blood stasis and relieve pain, which is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of dysmenorrhea. Nursing methods for dysmenorrhea 1. Pay attention to menstrual hygiene, and eat less irritating foods such as cold and spicy before and during menstruation. 2, usually to strengthen physical exercise, especially those who are physically weak. We should also pay attention to improving nutritional status and actively treating chronic diseases. 3, eliminate the tension and fear of menstruation, relieve ideological concerns, and feel happy. You can take part in labor and sports properly, but you should pay attention to rest. 4, pain can be symptomatic treatment, you can take atropine tablets and diazepam tablets, which can relieve pain. If it cannot be relieved for a long time, it can be treated according to TCM syndrome differentiation. In addition, drinking some Jiang Shui hot brown sugar will also get good results.