Women during their menstrual period often appear irritable and easily angered, so women need to learn to control their emotions during their period. They also need to pay attention to their diet. Let's take a look at what else women need to pay attention to during their period!
Foods to Avoid During Menstruation
1. Avoid sour, spicy, and stimulating foods
Women often feel particularly tired during their period, with weakened digestion and poor appetite. Therefore, their diet should be light and easily digestible and absorbable.
Avoid consuming excessively sour and highly stimulating foods, such as hawthorn, pickled vegetables, vinegar, chili, mustard, and pepper.
2. Avoid cold foods; eat warm foods
According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood flows better when it is warm and stagnates when it is cold.
Eating cold foods during menstruation can hinder digestion and harm the body's yang energy, leading to the production of internal coldness. This coldness can cause stagnation and poor circulation of menstrual blood, resulting in reduced menstrual flow and even menstrual pain.
Even in hot summer weather, it is not advisable to consume cold drinks during menstruation.
3. Prevent iron deficiency; balance meat and vegetable intake
Iron is an essential trace element for the human body.
Iron not only participates in the synthesis of hemoglobin and many important enzymes, but also plays important roles in immunity, intelligence, aging, and energy metabolism.
During menstruation, there is a significant loss of iron, so it is important to consume foods rich in iron.
Blood-Boosting Recipes for Women During Menstruation
[Rose Tea]
Ingredients and method: Pick semi-opened rose flowers with a purple-red color, intact petals, and a fragrant smell in summer or autumn. Brew them as tea.
Effect: It promotes qi circulation, blood circulation, and skin moisturization. It is suitable for irregular menstruation and menstrual pain.
[Ginger Jujube Brown Sugar Water]
Ingredients: 30g dried ginger, 30g jujube, 30g brown sugar.
Method: Wash the ginger and jujube, chop the ginger into small pieces, remove the jujube pits, and boil them with brown sugar. Drink the soup and eat the jujube.
Effect: It has the effect of warming the menstruation and dispersing coldness. It is suitable for cold menstrual pain and melasma.
