In daily life, especially before and after the menstrual period, the use of food bias to improve physical fitness is helpful to treat dysmenorrhea. If you have dysmenorrhea, you should avoid eating cold and hot food. Otherwise, it will cause poor blood flow and aggravate the pain. You can eat more warm food.
(1) Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: You can eat more foods that can promote qi circulation and blood circulation, such as radish, litchi, orange, hawthorn, loofah, peach kernel, celery, rape, cuttlefish and peanuts.
(2) Cold-dampness stagnation type: You can eat more foods with the functions of eliminating 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.
(3) Yang deficiency and internal cold type: You can eat more foods that can warm spleen and kidney, warm yang and dispel cold, such as soybean oil, pepper, star anise, leek, mutton, beef, grass carp and shrimp.
(4) Damp-heat betting type: You can eat more damp-heat foods with the function of clearing away the heat and lowering the coke, such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, eggplant, cucumber, wax gourd, rape, spinach, mung bean, apple, pear, coix seed, tea, laver, adzuki bean, day lily, clam and so on.
(5) Deficiency of qi and blood: 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 and yellow croaker.
(6) Liver and kidney deficiency type: you can eat more foods that can tonify liver and kidney, such as medlar, tremella, auricularia, coconut, walnut, beef tendon, scallop, abalone and duck eggs.
What foods should dysmenorrhea patients avoid?
1, avoid eating cold food:
Women usually or during menstruation, such as eating cold and cold food, blood is cold and coagulated, so that blood circulation is blocked, and it hurts if it doesn't work, which can cause dysmenorrhea; Eating more of this kind of food is easy to hurt the spleen and yang, so that the cold and dampness will not melt, and it will hurt the lower jiao, and the guest will be in the cell, and the blood will be frozen and cause dysmenorrhea. Therefore, people with deficiency of body qi and yang, or women during or before menstruation, should avoid eating cold and cold foods. Such foods include: all kinds of cold drinks, all kinds of frozen drinks, chilled wines, raw and mixed cold dishes, crabs, snails, mussels, leeches, pears, persimmons, watermelons, cucumbers, water chestnuts, pomelo, oranges and so on.
2, avoid eating sour food:
Acidic food tastes sour and cold, has astringent and astringent effects, makes blood vessels contract and blood stagnate, which is not conducive to the smooth flow and discharge of menstrual blood, so people with dysmenorrhea should not eat this kind of food. Acidic foods include rice vinegar, pickles, pickles, pomegranates, mums, bayberries, strawberries, carambola, cherries, wild jujubes, mangoes, apricots, plums and lemons.
3, avoid irritating food:
Some patients with dysmenorrhea are caused by damp-heat accumulation in uterus. If such patients eat spicy and warm food again, it will aggravate pelvic congestion and inflammation, or cause excessive contraction of uterine muscles, which will aggravate dysmenorrhea. Spicy and warm products include peppers, peppers, garlic, onions, ginger, leeks, cigarettes, spirits and spicy condiments. Patients with dysmenorrhea should try to eat less or not.