Menstruation is a "difficult period" that every woman goes through, and many women often experience dysmenorrhea during menstruation, mainly due to lack of attention to their health. Here are some recommended medicinal food recipes to regulate menstrual health.
Medicinal Food Recipe 1: Donkey-hide gelatin and lean pork soup
Ingredients: 10g donkey-hide gelatin, 10g Codonopsis pilosula, 3 spring onions, 10g Chinese wolfberries, 50g lean pork.
Method: Crush the donkey-hide gelatin, wash and cut the lean pork into small pieces. Put them together with the spring onions, Codonopsis pilosula, and Chinese wolfberries into a clay pot and cook the soup.
Usage: Add salt for seasoning when eating. Take 2-3 times a week during the week before menstruation, especially suitable for women with heavy menstrual flow.
Efficacy: Donkey-hide gelatin is a good medicine for nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, and nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness. It is clinically used for blood deficiency and yellowing, dizziness, palpitations, muscle weakness, restlessness and insomnia, internal wind movement, dry cough, coughing up blood, vomiting blood, and bleeding. Donkey-hide gelatin has a blood-nourishing effect and can be used for blood loss anemia, iron deficiency anemia, aplastic anemia, as well as nourishing the weak bodies of the elderly, children, and women. Long-term consumption of donkey-hide gelatin can also nourish the skin, making it smooth, elastic, and radiant.
Medicinal Food Recipe 2: Stir-fried Motherwort
Ingredients: 3g fresh motherwort, 30g fresh shepherd's purse, suitable amount of cooking oil.
Method: Wash and cut the fresh motherwort and fresh shepherd's purse. Put the iron pot on high heat, pour in the cooking oil and heat it up, then stir-fry the fresh motherwort and fresh shepherd's purse until cooked and ready to eat.
Usage: Take twice a day until the bleeding stops.
Efficacy: Motherwort can promote blood circulation, break up blood clots, and regulate menstruation. Shepherd's purse contains shepherd's purse acid, which can shorten bleeding and coagulation time, thereby achieving the purpose of stopping bleeding. It is particularly effective for excessive menstrual flow with blood stasis.
Medicinal Food Recipe 3: Sand ginger and lotus leaf cake
Ingredients: 20g sand ginger, 3000g fermented flour, 1100g white sugar, 1000g lard, 20g baking soda.
Method: Remove the ash and shell from the sand ginger, wash and dry it, grind it into powder. Mix it with white sugar and baking soda, knead it repeatedly with fermented flour for a few minutes, then roll it into long round strips, cut into 80 pieces. Arrange them on a chopping board in the shape of a lotus leaf, brush with lard, and steam in a steamer on high heat for 10 minutes.
Usage: Take 2 pieces each time, twice a day.
Efficacy: It invigorates the spleen, opens the appetite, and eliminates dampness and phlegm. It is suitable for women with light menstruation due to phlegm-dampness, pale red menstrual color, sticky and greasy texture, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, and obese physique. It is also suitable for women who have a few months of continuous menstruation after a period of absence, and have a fatigued body.
Medicinal Food Recipe 4: Donkey-hide gelatin and beef soup
Ingredients: 15g donkey-hide gelatin, 100g beef, 20ml rice wine, 10g ginger, salt to taste.
Method: Remove the tendons from the beef and slice it. Put the sliced beef, ginger, and rice wine into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes. Finally, add the donkey-hide gelatin and seasonings, dissolve and mix well before eating.
Usage: Take 1 dose daily, eat the meat and drink the soup.
Efficacy: Donkey-hide gelatin can regulate menstruation and protect the fetus, nourish blood and stop bleeding. Especially in the cold winter, donkey-hide gelatin is a good supplement. Donkey-hide gelatin and beef soup can nourish yin, nourish blood, warm the middle, and invigorate the spleen. It is suitable for women with irregular menstruation, delayed menstrual period, dizziness, and restlessness during menstruation. Donkey-hide gelatin has a sticky texture, so it is not suitable for people with weak digestion. People with heavy internal heat, dry mouth, and hot flashes should also avoid consuming this medicinal food recipe.
