Teach you how to regulate your diet before and after menstruation

What to eat in the first 3 days of menstruation

During menstruation and a few days before and after, if you use medicinal food to properly nourish the body, nourish the liver and kidneys, it will be particularly helpful in nourishing new blood.

Menstruation is a normal phenomenon in which the organs, qi, blood, and meridians act on the uterus. Therefore, whether menstruation is normal is closely related to physical constitution, and has the greatest impact on liver and kidney function.

From 3 days before the scheduled menstrual date until the end of menstruation, you cannot eat cold, stimulating and hot tonic foods, such as Korean ginseng. These foods will cause the blood that is about to be excreted from your body to coagulate and make it difficult to excrete it, causing you to have abdominal pain and unable to expel clean menstrual blood.

In addition, don’t eat fruits, because most fruits are also cooling!

What should I eat if my period is long?

When menstruation is normal, in order to make menstruation smoother, you can start drinking Shenghua Decoction from the first day of menstruation, one cup a day for three days in a row. Its ingredients are Angelica sinensis, Ligusticum chuanxiong, dried ginger, peach kernels, and licorice, which can be purchased in traditional Chinese medicine stores.

"Shenghua Decoction" was originally given to mothers during confinement to help discharge lochia. Therefore, when you drink it during menstruation, you need to remind your Chinese medicine practitioner to reduce the amount of Angelica sinensis.

What to eat within 3 days after menstruation ends

After menstruation, you should focus on replenishing blood and nourishing qi to improve paleness due to blood loss, fatigue and soreness.

From the day when menstruation ends, you can eat one piece of four things every day for 3 days, which can replenish the blood and treat blood deficiency and turbidity.

Siwu is made of Angelica sinensis, Ligusticum chuanxiong, white peony root and rehmannia glutinosa. It is easily available in traditional Chinese medicine stores and can be fried into soup or made into "Siwu chicken".

Method: Quickly wash 3 qian of angelica root, 2 qian of rehmannia glutinosa, 1 qian of white peony root, and 1 qian of chuanxiong rhizome with water and drain. Put the medicinal materials and chicken into the electric pot, add water to cover the chicken, wait for the switch to pop up and simmer for 30 minutes.