"Women are like flowers, and flowers can nourish women." Many flowers have good effects on women's health, especially roses. Roses not only have a long flowering period, various colors, and a fragrant aroma, they are also known as the "queen of flowers". Roses are also a good medicine for gynecological health. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that roses have a sweet taste and warm nature, and they enter the liver meridian. They have the functions of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, reducing swelling, and detoxification. Because roses have obvious effects in promoting blood circulation, promoting qi flow, and relieving pain, they are often used to treat symptoms such as irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea.
I. Rose Tea
Ingredients: 6g roses.
Instructions:
1. Peel the roses into petals and rinse them in salt water repeatedly and drain the water.
2. Use boiling water to warm the tea cup and drain the water to increase the temperature of the tea set and stabilize the temperature after brewing.
3. Put the prepared roses into the cup, pour in boiling water, cover the cup, and let it soak for about 3 minutes before removing the cover and drinking.
Benefits:
1. Promote Qi Flow and Relieve Pain
Rose tea has the effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain, and promoting qi flow. It is often used to treat symptoms such as irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea.
2. Activate Blood and Reduce Swelling
Rose tea is often used to treat injuries, blood stasis, swelling, and abscesses.
3. Clear Heat and Detoxify
Rose tea can be consumed by people with excessive lung fire to clear heat and reduce fire in the intestines and stomach.
4. Relieve Dry Skin
Rose tea can promote blood circulation and regulate the skin color problems caused by poor blood circulation.
II. Rose and Almond Porridge
Ingredients: Appropriate amount of roses, 30g rice, 3g almonds, sugar.
Instructions:
1. Wash the rice and almonds separately; boil water in a pot, add rice and almonds, stir well; pour some of the roses into the pot, cover and simmer over low heat for 40 minutes.
2. Pour sugar into the pot, stir gently, and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Sprinkle the remaining roses into the pot, and then serve the cooked sweet porridge.
Benefits:
1. Roses: They have the function of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, reducing swelling, and relieving pain.
2. Almonds: They have the effects of relieving cough, moisturizing the intestines, killing parasites, detoxifying, and moisturizing the skin. They can treat lung diseases, coughs, and other ailments.
3. Rice: It has the effects of tonifying the middle, benefiting qi, harmonizing the five viscera, opening the four meridians, relieving irritability, thirst, and diarrhea.
4. Rose and Almond Porridge: This porridge has the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, relieving cough, regulating qi, opening the chest, reducing swelling, relieving pain, and promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation.
Ladies, drinking rose tea during menstruation not only has good effects on promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, but also helps with beauty and skincare. Give it a try!
