I > Dietary therapy for dysmenorrhea: Dietary therapy refers to what patients with dysmenorrhea should eat and what they should not eat. In daily life, especially before and after menstrual period, food bias is used to improve their physique. Avoid eating cold food and hot food during dysmenorrhea. Otherwise, it will cause the phenomenon of poor blood flow and aggravate the pain. You can eat more warm food.
1. Qi and blood deficiency type: mutton stewed with 50 grams of angelica, astragalus and angelica, 500 grams of mutton and 30 grams of astragalus, stewed with soup, and eaten with meat.
Usually, you can eat more foods with qi and blood production, such as sea cucumber, chicken, jujube, black beans, mushrooms, medlar, longan, milk, eggs, grapes, octopus, loach, yellow croaker and so on.
2. Liver and kidney deficiency type: 6 grams of Chuanxiong, 6 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, 0/2 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza, and 2 eggs. Boil Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, and egg with water. When the egg is cooked, remove the shell and cook for a while, then eat the egg and drink the soup.
Usually, you can eat more foods that can nourish liver and kidney, such as medlar, tremella, fungus, coconut, walnut, beef tendon, scallop, abalone and duck eggs.
Third, qi stagnation and blood stasis type: motherwort boiled eggs motherwort 30 grams, 2 eggs. Boil motherwort and eggs with water, shell the eggs when they are cooked, cook for a while, remove the dregs and eat egg soup, once a day, for 3 to 5 days.
Usually, you can eat more foods that can promote qi and blood circulation, such as radish, litchi, orange, hawthorn, loofah, peach kernel, celery, rape, cuttlefish and peanuts.
Four, cold blood stasis type: ginger brown sugar tea ginger brown sugar tea: ginger 15 grams, brown sugar right amount. Boiled water instead of tea.
Usually, you can eat more foods with the functions of removing cold and dampness, warming meridians and dredging veins, such as ginger, scallion, star anise, pepper, lentils, leeks, mustard greens, peppers, lychees, peaches, chestnuts, mutton, chicken, dog meat, carp, crucian carp and pepper.
Five, damp and heat accumulation type: Luffa brown sugar soup old Luffa 250 grams, brown sugar right amount. Wash and chop the loofah, decoct with water and add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and drink the soup while it is hot.
At ordinary times, you can eat more damp-heat foods with the function of clearing away heat, such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, eggplant, cucumber, wax gourd, rape, spinach, mung bean, apple, pear, coix seed, tea, laver, red bean, day lily, clam and so on.
Six, yang deficiency and internal cold type: you can eat more foods that have the functions of warming spleen and kidney and dispelling cold in Yiyang, such as soybean oil, pepper, star anise, leek, mutton, beef, grass carp and shrimp.
When menstruation comes, you should avoid all cold, indigestible and irritating foods, such as peppers, raw onions, raw garlic, peppers and spirits. During this period, patients can eat some sour foods, such as sauerkraut and vinegar, which can relieve pain. In addition, patients with dysmenorrhea should keep BB unobstructed every day, whether before or after menstruation. Eat as much honey, bananas, celery and sweet potatoes as possible. Because secret B can induce dysmenorrhea and increase pain. Drinking some wine in moderation can dredge channels and collaterals, dilate blood vessels, relax smooth muscles, and play a role in the prevention and treatment of dysmenorrhea. If the menstrual blood volume is not much, you can drink some wine in moderation, which can alleviate the symptoms and play a therapeutic role to some extent. Wine has an exciting effect on human body because it contains ethanol. People with dysmenorrhea caused by emotional depression can drink some wine at the right time, which can relax their emotions, soothe the liver and relieve boredom, and make qi flow and benefit. In addition, wine tastes sweet and warm, and Xin neng San can do it. For dysmenorrhea caused by cold and dampness stagnation, it can dispel cold and dampness, promote blood circulation and dredge menstruation; Sweet and warm can tonify and slow down, and it can warm yang, replenish blood and relieve pain for dysmenorrhea caused by deficiency of qi and blood. Patients with dysmenorrhea should have diversified diets, not partial eclipse, and should often eat some vegetables and fruits with the functions of regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, such as shepherd's purse, cymbidium root, coriander, carrot, orange, bergamot and ginger. People who are weak and lack of qi and blood should often eat foods that tonify qi, blood and liver and kidney, such as chicken, duck, fish, eggs, milk, animal liver and kidney, fish and beans.
In addition, patients with dysmenorrhea should pay attention to their daily diet and avoid cold and hot and sour food.
1, composition: black-bone chicken 1 piece, angelica100g, astragalus root 30g, and ginger 5 pieces.
Usage: Cut black-bone chicken into pieces, and stew with angelica, astragalus and ginger. Add salt and seasoning, eat meat and drink soup.
Efficacy: Yiqi Yangxue. It is suitable for blood deficiency dysmenorrhea with weak constitution, less menstrual flow, light color and dull pain at the end of menstruation.
2. Composition: 200 grams of white radish, 50 grams of immature bitter orange and 30 grams of Cyperus rotundus.
Usage: Dice radish and stew soup with medicine, add salt and seasoning, eat radish and drink soup. Daily 1 dose, taken twice.
Efficacy: promoting qi and blood circulation. It is suitable for qi-stagnation dysmenorrhea with more menstrual blood clots or breast pain, and the abdominal pain mainly begins about one day after menstruation.
Note: If any of the following situations occurs, it can't be solved by several foods. You should see a doctor at once:
Those who are over 25 years old or married, especially those who have given birth, have severe dysmenorrhea and can't stand it without treatment.
Dysmenorrhea has gradually eased, but recently it has intensified, and there is a possibility of suffering from uterine flexion or other diseases.
The possibility of suffering from endometritis should be considered if the body temperature rises during menstruation or even has a high fever.
If the menstrual period is too long or too short, it is usually 3-7 days, or if the amount of bleeding is too much, generally 6-8 sanitary napkins are needed every day.
If there is a liver-like mass in menstrual blood, which is larger than the little finger, it should be suspected that there are serious diseases such as uterine fibroids.
The closer you get to the menstrual period, the more obvious the lower abdominal pain is, and those who disappear on the first day of menstrual period are the manifestations of premenstrual tension.
Normal menstrual blood is dark red, with old blood, mucus and exfoliated endometrium in pieces. If the color of menstrual blood is light brown, or the smell changes, it should be diagnosed as soon as possible.
[2] Chinese herbal remedies for dysmenorrhea:
1, 50g of Fagopyrum cymosum root (70g fresh, better effect). Decoct it 3-5 days before menstrual cramps, with each dose of about 500ml, daily 1 dose, and take it twice, with two doses in succession. Two menstrual cycles are a course of treatment. Suitable for primary dysmenorrhea.
2. Radix Aconiti Lateralis and Radix Angelicae Sinensis each15g, Rhizoma Corydalis10g, and Cortex Cinnamomi 6g. Decoct before menstruation, daily 1 dose, twice. You can also grind honey into pills, each pill 1 0g, take1-2 pills each time,1day for three times, and take it for several days. Avoid eating cold during menstruation and avoid mental stimulation.
3, milk+honey can relieve dysmenorrhea.
Recently, foreign experts in obstetrics and gynecology believe that 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. The reason is that milk contains more potassium, while honey is rich in magnesium. Studies have shown that potassium plays an important role in the transmission of nerve impulses and blood coagulation, which can ease emotions, inhibit pain, prevent infection and reduce menstrual blood loss. Magnesium has a sedative effect on the central nervous system of the brain, which can regulate psychology, eliminate tension and relieve stress.
[3] Massage therapy for dysmenorrhea
First massage the back and waist, then massage the abdomen, and then massage the lower limbs. Apply blood-activating liquid medicine (such as medicated oil and medicated wine) first, and then massage: 1, press the1section of the thoracic vertebra of the back and waist to the second section of the lumbar vertebra with your fingers or palm roots, and press the muscles on both sides and the related spine, pivot, Mingmen, Jiaji, Pishu, Weishu and Sanjiaoshu. 2. Gently rub the tenderness of the waist with your fist; 3. Press the muscles with abdominal pain and points such as Shenque, Qihai, Guanyuan, Tian Shu, Wailing and Daju with your fingers; 4. Pinch and press the acupoints such as Yinbao, Xuehai, Sanyinjiao and Taichong of the lower limbs with your fingers.
Efficacy: Generally, it takes 5 minutes to massage the back and waist to relieve abdominal pain. Continue to massage the back, waist and abdomen for 20 minutes, and the abdominal pain can disappear. Massage 1 time every day for 3-5 days. Those who have a history of dysmenorrhea in the past can start massage 2 days before menstruation. If you want to consolidate the curative effect, you can massage/kloc-0 every 2-3 days, and you need to persevere to achieve the ideal effect.