Durian odor is strong, it is no exaggeration to say that it "stinks". But in Thailand, because of its high nutritional value, durian is often used as a patient, postpartum women's body tonic.
Durian is hot in nature and can invigorate blood circulation, dissipate cold and relieve menstrual cramps, which is especially suitable for women suffering from menstrual cramps: it also improves the symptoms of abdominal cold and can promote the rise of body temperature, which makes it an ideal tonic for people with cold bodies: in addition, using the shells of the durian and pig bones to cook together in soups is also a traditional folk therapeutic recipe.
Dietary advice:
Durian although the benefits of many, but can not eat too much, otherwise it is easy to lead to the body hot, but also due to the stomach and intestines can not be fully absorbed and caused by the "fire". Eat durian at the same time, may wish to drink some saline water, or eat some water more fruits to balance, such as pears, watermelon, etc., can be very good to eliminate heat.
The best partner of durian is mangosteen, known as the "queen of fruits", which can subdue the fire of the "king of fruits" and protect the body from damage.
2, apples contain a variety of vitamins and acids
1 apple contains flavonoids about 30 mg or more, containing 15% of carbohydrates and pectin, vitamins A, C, E and potassium and antioxidants and other content is also very rich. Some research suggests: bioflavonoids, can regulate blood lipids, reduce blood viscosity, improve serum lipids; dilate blood vessels, relieve spasms; apples contain sugar and lithium, bromine zinc, magnesium and other elements, is effective in calming sleeping pills.
Apple stewed in red wine activates blood circulation, and is also effective in treating women's stomach pain during physiological period.
Dietary advice: red wine apple
Practice: apple (400 grams) peeled, cut into crescent shape with a knife. Put the apples into the milk pot, pour red wine not over the apples, simmer for 15 minutes on medium heat and turn off the heat, the apples can be eaten after soaking in red wine for two hours. If you have a sweet tooth, you can add some rock sugar or honey.
Effects: Activate blood circulation, also has a healing effect on women's physiological period of stomach pain. In addition red wine is also a good beauty product.
3, drink some wine in moderation
The wine can be used to activate the meridian, dilate blood vessels, so that the smooth muscle relaxation, the prevention and treatment of dysmenorrhea has a certain role. If the amount of menstrual blood is not much, you can drink some wine in moderation, can relieve the symptoms, to a certain extent, can also play a therapeutic role. Wine has an excitatory effect on the human body due to the presence of ethanol.
Additionally, wine is pungent, sweet and warm, and pungent can disperse cold and dampness and promote blood circulation and menstruation for cold and damp dysmenorrhea; sweet and warm can supplement and slow down the dysmenorrhea caused by the weakness of qi and blood, and can play the effect of warming the sun and replenishing the blood to slow down and stop the pain.
4, supplement potassium and magnesium
Why are two such common foods so powerful? It is because of two minerals, potassium and magnesium. Milk contains a lot of potassium, and honey is a "rich mine" of magnesium. Studies have shown that potassium is essential for nerve impulse transmission, blood clotting and all cellular functions in the human body, and that it eases moods, suppresses pain, prevents infections and reduces blood loss during menstruation; magnesium helps to maintain normal levels of nerve impulse transmission and neurohormonal active substances in the brain.
In the late menstrual period, magnesium can also play a role in psychological regulation, helping the body to relax, eliminate tension and reduce stress. Foods rich in potassium and magnesium include bananas, grapes, zucchini, soybeans, potatoes and mushrooms.
5, vitamin E food
No matter what the cause of menstrual cramps, experts have reminded that in ordinary life should be moderate to eat more food rich in vitamin E, in order to play a role in relieving menstrual cramps. Vitamin E is also known as tocopherol, moderate supplementation can help women effectively maintain the normal function of the reproductive organs, in addition to maintaining the body's muscle metabolism, and supplementation during menstruation can play a relaxation of the muscle effect, so as to better achieve the prevention of menstrual cramps as well as the role of relief.
Recommended diet: grain germ, wheat germ, egg yolk, beans, nuts, leafy vegetables, in addition to life is also very common in the fragrant oil, often eat these foods can help women with dysmenorrhea to reduce the degree of dysmenorrhea, but also can play a role in regulating menstruation.
6, brown sugar
The Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar has the benefit of gas and blood, spleen and stomach warming, to drive away the cold, the effect of blood, on the female menstruation smooth help, can make the body warm, increase energy, vitality, accelerate blood circulation, the menstruation will also be more smooth.
If you feel poorly after your period, you can drink a glass of brown sugar water with a concentration of about 20% before your daily meal. If the discomfort is more severe, you can drink another cup before dinner and continue for a week to effectively improve.
So I recommend the usual irregular menstruation, menstrual pain can usually drink more brown sugar water, can slow down the menstrual pain.
Dietary advice: hawthorn brown sugar drink
Ingredients: raw hawthorn meat 50 grams, 40 grams of brown sugar.
Practice: Hawthorn water decoction to remove the dregs, punch into the brown sugar, hot drink. Non-pregnant people take a few more times, menstrual blood can also come down by itself.
Function: promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, treating women with menstrual disorders.
7, saffron
Often we can see in the drama about the harem saffron is used to abortion, in fact, not. It can relieve women's menstrual cramps!
Saffron can regulate menstruation, saffron's regulating effect and role is mainly manifested in the activation of blood dysmenorrhea, dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain. It is used for menstrual cramps, dysmenorrhea, and bruises.
Saffron can promote blood circulation and menstruation; dispel blood stasis and relieve pain. Saffron is pungent and warm in nature, and it belongs to the heart and liver meridians. It has the effect of activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is also used for treating dysmenorrhea, menstrual closure and postpartum hemorrhagic dizziness.
Saffron can be decocted, the dosage of 3 ~ 9 g. Pregnant women should not be used, bleeding tendency of people with caution!
8, peach kernel
Peach kernel activates blood circulation to remove blood stasis, laxative. Used for menstrual closure, relieve dysmenorrhea, artwork obstruction, bruises and injuries, intestinal constipation. Peach kernel is sweet, flat and bitter in nature, entering the lung, liver and large intestine meridians; it has the efficacy of breaking blood stasis, moistening dryness and lubricating the intestines; it is used for treating menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, obstruction in the abdomen and lumps, bruxism, intestinal dryness and constipation.
Peach kernel contains bitter almond, 24-methylenecycloartanol, wild cherry, β-sitosterol and canola oil sterols and their glucose, and also contains chlorogenic acid.
The decoction has anti-inflammatory effect, the fat oil contained has laxative and slowing down effect, the extract has vasodilatory effect. Alcoholic extracts have inhibited blood coagulation. Peach kernel can also be anti-allergic, antitussive, analgesic, promote uterine contraction in primiparous women, hemostasis and so on.
9, jujube
Jujube is warm and sweet, has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, harmonizing the medicinal properties, nourishing blood and tranquilizing the mind. Red dates are useful for women with menstrual cramps because they can improve the fear of cold, pallor and cold hands and feet.