Menstrual disorder refers to abnormal changes in menstrual cycle, volume, color, and quality. Regulating diet with medicinal food can restore normal menstruation by adjusting the functions of organs and blood. The following medicinal food recipes can nourish blood and regulate menstruation, and are most suitable for those with menstrual disorders to consume.
Medicinal Food Recipe 1: Motherwort Juice Congee
Effect: Nourishes Yin and blood, regulates menstruation, relieves thirst and irritability. Suitable for women with menstrual irregularities, functional uterine bleeding, postpartum fainting, incomplete lochia, and abdominal pain.
Ingredients: 10g fresh motherwort juice, 40g fresh Rehmannia juice, 40g fresh lotus root juice, appropriate amount of ginger juice and honey, 100g rice.
Preparation: Cook rice porridge, when the rice is cooked, add the above medicinal juices and honey. Cook until it becomes a thin porridge.
Usage: Take twice a day, warm. Stop taking when the condition improves and should not be taken for a long time.
Recommendation: Use a sand pot instead of an iron pot. Avoid use in cases of spleen deficiency with diarrhea. Avoid eating onions and leeks during the congee consumption.
Medicinal Food Recipe 2: Safflower Glutinous Rice Porridge
Effect: Nourishes blood, promotes blood circulation, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for those with irregular menstruation and blood deficiency or blood stasis.
Ingredients: 10g safflower, 10g Chinese angelica, 15g salvia miltiorrhiza, 100g glutinous rice.
Preparation: First decoct the herbs, remove the residue and extract the juice, then cook the rice into porridge.
Usage: Take twice a day on an empty stomach.
Medicinal Food Recipe 3: Chinese Angelica and Corydalis Decoction
Effect: Promotes blood circulation, dispels cold, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for late menstruation and also treats amenorrhea.
Ingredients: 9g Chinese angelica, 5g corydalis, 2 slices of ginger.
Preparation: Decoct the above three ingredients in water.
Usage: Take continuously for 3 doses, once a day.
Medicinal Food Recipe 4: Fermented Black Bean and Lamb Soup
Effect: Warms the channels and dispels cold. Suitable for those with cold-type menstruation in the late phase.
Ingredients: 15g ginger, 50g fermented black beans, 100g lamb, appropriate amount of salt.
Preparation: Put the above three ingredients into a sand pot and cook until the lamb is tender. Add salt to taste.
Usage: Eat the lamb and drink the soup. Take once a day for the 10 days before menstruation, continuously for 3-5 days.
