Women experience discomfort for a few days every month. During menstruation, women should not only avoid overexertion but also pay attention to their diet. So, how should women arrange their diet during their period? Women need blood-boosting desserts on special days. Here are 8 dessert recipes for special days, so that ladies can maintain a rosy complexion at all times!
1. Ginger Jujube Brown Sugar Water
Ingredients: 30g dried ginger, 30g jujubes, 30g brown sugar.
Method: Wash the first two ingredients, finely chop the dried ginger, remove the pits from the jujubes, boil them with brown sugar, drink the soup, and eat the jujubes.
Effect: It has the effect of warming the uterus and dispersing cold. It is suitable for cold and painful menstruation as well as melasma.
2. Hawthorn Cinnamon Brown Sugar Soup
Ingredients: 15g hawthorn flesh, 5g cinnamon, 30g brown sugar.
Method: Put hawthorn flesh and cinnamon into a clay pot, add 2 bowls of water, simmer on low heat until it reduces to 1 bowl, add brown sugar, mix well, and boil.
Effect: It has the effects of warming the uterus and promoting blood circulation, resolving stasis, and relieving pain. It is suitable for women with cold and painful menstruation and dull complexion.
3. Chive Juice Brown Sugar Drink
Ingredients: 300g fresh chives, 100g brown sugar.
Method: Wash the fresh chives, drain the water, chop them into pieces, and mash them to extract the juice. Put the brown sugar in an aluminum pot, add a small amount of water, boil it, and then mix it with the chive juice for drinking.
Effect: It has the effects of warming the uterus, replenishing qi, and nourishing the skin. It is suitable for women with deficiency of both qi and blood and can make the skin rosy and smooth.
4. Rose Tea
Method: Pick the semi-opened rose flowers with a purple-red color, no scattered petals, and a fragrant smell during summer or autumn. Brew them like tea.
Effect: It has the effects of promoting qi circulation, invigorating blood circulation, and moisturizing the skin. It is suitable for irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea.
5. Ginger Coix Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 10g dried ginger, 10g mugwort leaves, 30g coix seeds.
Method: Boil the first two ingredients to extract the juice. Cook the coix seeds until they are 80% cooked, and then cook them together with the ginger and mugwort juice until fully cooked.
Effect: It has the effects of warming the uterus, resolving stasis, dispelling cold, eliminating dampness, and moisturizing the skin. It is suitable for cold and dampness type of dysmenorrhea.
6. Black Plum Brown Sugar Drink
Ingredients: 15g black plums, 30g brown sugar.
Method: Put the black plums and brown sugar in a pot, add 1 and a half cups of water, simmer until it reduces to one cup, remove the residue, and drink it warm.
Effect: It has the effects of replenishing blood, stopping bleeding, and beautifying the skin. It is suitable for excessive menstruation in young girls or functional uterine bleeding.
7. Black Fungus and Red Date Drink
Ingredients: 30g black fungus, 20 red dates.
Method: Wash the black fungus and red dates. Remove the pits from the red dates. Boil the two ingredients with water. Remove the residue and drink.
Effect: It has the effects of tonifying the middle, nourishing qi and blood, beautifying the skin, and enhancing complexion. It is suitable for excessive menstruation, anemia, and weak constitution.
8. Lotus Root and Lotus Drink
Ingredients: 500g fresh lotus root, 500g fresh white radish, 500g fresh dry lotus herb.
Method: Wash and mash the above ingredients, extract the juice, and add an appropriate amount of rock sugar to drink.
Effect: It has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, and stabilizing menstruation.
