Many women have some uncomfortable symptoms in the first few days of menstrual cramps (premenstrual period), such as depression, anxiety, emotional tension, insomnia, irritability, irritability and fatigue. It is generally believed that this is related to the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body. At this time, women should choose foods and medicines that are not only beneficial to skin care, but also can invigorate qi, soothe the liver and regulate bad mood, such as cabbage, grapefruit, lean pork, celery, japonica rice, duck eggs, fried atractylodes, yam, coix seed, lily, honeydew melon, wax gourd, kelp, sea cucumber, carrot, white radish, walnut kernel, black fungus and mushroom.
During menstrual cramps, symptoms such as poor appetite, backache and fatigue may occur. At this time, it is advisable to choose foods and medicines that are beneficial to both skin beauty and "water travel". Suitable foods and medicines are; Mutton, chicken, red dates, bean curd skin, apples, coix seed, beef, milk, eggs, brown sugar, motherwort, angelica, prepared rehmannia root, peach blossom, etc.
Zhao Zhibi, an ancient man, said: "When traveling through water, heat is often used instead of cold, and cold stops its blood, which makes it endless and full of filth." Therefore, during menstruation, many foods that have a good skin-benefiting and beauty-caring effect should also be fasted, such as pears, bananas, water chestnuts, stone ears, stone flowers, water chestnuts, white gourd, kale, black fungus, rabbit meat, hemp seeds and so on.
As mentioned above, when menstruation comes, you will lose some blood. The main components of blood are plasma protein, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium and other inorganic salts. That is to say, every time you come to menstruation, you will lose some protein and inorganic salts. Therefore, in principle, protein, minerals and other nutrients should be supplemented and some blood tonic drugs should be used within 1-5 days after menstruation. During this period, you can choose foods and medicines that can not only benefit skin and beautify, but also enrich blood and promote blood circulation, such as milk, eggs, quail eggs, beef, mutton, pig pancreas, Euryale ferox, spinach, cherry, longan pulp, litchi pulp, carrot, apple, angelica, safflower, peach blossom, prepared rhizome of rehmannia, Polygonatum and so on.