As long as women are more prone to iron deficiency anemia, this is because women will lose blood regularly every month during the physiological period. So on average, about 20% of women and 50% of pregnant women will have anemia.

If anemia is not very serious, you can change the symptoms of anemia without taking various supplements, as long as you adjust your diet.

For example, first of all, we should pay attention to the diet and take a balanced intake of iron-rich foods such as liver, egg yolk and cereals. If the intake of iron in the diet is insufficient or iron deficiency is serious, iron should be supplemented immediately. Vitamin C can help iron absorption and heme production, so the intake of vitamin C should be sufficient. Secondly, eat more fresh vegetables. Many vegetables are rich in iron. Such as auricularia auricula, laver, Nostoc flagelliforme, shepherd's purse, black sesame, lotus root starch, etc.

Recommend several homemade blood-enriching foods:

Black beans: In ancient China, eating beans was always considered beneficial. Most books will introduce that black beans can make people's hair black. In fact, black beans can also produce blood. How to eat black beans depends on everyone's preference. If it is postpartum, it is recommended to cook black-bone chicken with black beans.

Nostoc flagelliforme: Nostoc flagelliforme is dark and unsightly, but it contains high iron. Cooking soup with Nostoc flagelliforme can replenish blood.

Carrots: Carrots contain high levels of vitamins B and C, and at the same time contain a special nutrient-carotene, which is extremely beneficial to blood. Cooking soup with carrots is a good soup for enriching blood. But many people don't like carrots. My personal practice is to juice carrots and add honey as a drink.

Gluten: This is a folk food. There are vegetarian restaurants and pot-stewed stalls in general, and the iron content of gluten is also quite rich. And blood must be supplemented with iron first.

Spinach: This is the most common vegetable. It is also a famous blood-enriching food. Spinach is rich in iron carotene, so spinach can be regarded as an important food in blood-enriching vegetables. If you don't like carrots, eat more vegetables.

Day lily: Day lily has the largest iron content, which is 20 times higher than the familiar spinach. It is rich in iron, vitamins A, B 1, C, protein, fat, colchicine and other nutrients.

Longan meat: Longan meat is longan meat, which is sold in any supermarket. Longan meat is rich in iron and also contains vitamins A and B, glucose and sucrose. Tonifying blood can also treat amnesia, palpitation, neurasthenia and insomnia. Longan soup, longan gum and longan wine are also good blood-enriching foods.

Dried radish: Dried radish is a kind of beneficial vegetable, which is extremely rich in vitamin B and high in iron. Therefore, it is the most humble, cheapest and best health food, and its iron content exceeds all foods except day lily.

It should be noted that people with anemia had better not drink tea, and drinking more tea will only aggravate the symptoms of anemia. Because the iron in food enters the digestive tract in the form of trivalent colloidal iron hydroxide. Under the action of gastric juice, high-priced iron can be absorbed only after it is converted into low-priced iron. However, tea contains tannic acid, which easily forms insoluble iron tannic acid after drinking, thus hindering the absorption of iron. Secondly, milk and some drugs that neutralize stomach acid will hinder the absorption of iron, so try not to eat with iron-containing foods.

Classic prescription for enriching blood and nourishing blood

Siwu decoction is a classic prescription for enriching blood and nourishing blood, and it is also the most commonly used medicine in gynecology. People in the field of traditional Chinese medicine can completely describe this with familiarity and ears. What is even more amazing is that these four herbs have evolved into a series of "sub-prescriptions" and "sun prescriptions" after addition and subtraction. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 800 series of Siwutang, which is really "full of descendants" and a veritable prescription "granddaddy".

Siwutang was first seen in the Secret Recipe of Shangshen Dipsacus written by Lin Daoren in the late Tang Dynasty, and was improved by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and became the famous Jiaoai Siwutang in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber-later it was regarded as the main prescription for nourishing blood and regulating menstruation, specializing in treating gynecological diseases, and was called "the first prescription of gynecology" by later physicians.

There are only four drugs.

What exactly is siwutang? Professor Chen from the Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of Xiangya Hospital has been engaged in clinical gynecology research of traditional Chinese medicine for nearly 40 years. She said that Siwutang consists of four kinds of Chinese medicines: Angelica sinensis, Ligusticum Chuanxiong, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, among which Angelica sinensis and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata are the main medicines. Radix Rehmanniae Preparata contains mannitol, vitamin A, etc. Compatibility with Angelica sinensis can increase the content of ferulic acid, the main component of Angelica sinensis, and enhance the curative effect of nourishing blood and promoting blood circulation. It can be used to treat female pallor, dizziness, irregular menstruation, anorexia or amenorrhea.

How does Siwu decoction become a classic prescription for enriching blood and regulating menstruation in gynecology? Professor Chen explained that Chinese medicine believes that Siwutang mainly regulates liver blood, and women with blood deficiency should pay attention to regulating liver blood because liver blood is closely related: the liver has the function of storing blood and regulating blood volume, just like the "blood bank" of the human body. When the human body needs to increase blood volume due to diseases or physiological activities, at this time,

The liver discharges stored blood to meet the needs of physical activity. If the liver is sick and the blood storage function is abnormal, it means that the "blood bank" is exhausted and cannot satisfy all the functions of the human body at all. For example, if you can't look good, your eyes will be dim, dry and night blind; If you can't fill the sea of blood, women will have less menstruation and even amenorrhea; If the liver is not excreted smoothly, just like the leakage of "blood bank", the stored blood is not solid, which is easy to cause hemorrhagic diseases, such as epistaxis, menorrhagia or metrorrhagia in women.

Professor Chen said that a major feature of Siwutang is the different proportions of the four herbs, and Siwutang can play a variety of roles. If Rehmannia glutinosa and Angelica sinensis are reused and Chuanxiong is lightly used, it is a good recipe for enriching blood; Angelica sinensis and Ligusticum chuanxiong can help pregnant women protect their babies with or without light use. Heavy use of Angelica sinensis and Ligusticum chuanxiong, light use of Paeonia lactiflora can treat menorrhagia, blood stasis amenorrhea and so on.

In addition, many "sub-prescriptions" and "sun-prescriptions" derived from Siwu Decoction are also helpful to treat gynecological diseases. The famous Taohong Siwu Decoction is made of Siwu Decoction with peach kernel and safflower. It is specially used for treating menorrhagia caused by blood deficiency and blood stasis, as well as threatened abortion and habitual abortion. Siwutang, named Aisiwutang after adding Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Colla Corii Asini and Glycyrrhrizae Radix, is used to treat menorrhagia and is the main prescription for preventing miscarriage, nourishing blood and stopping leakage. After Siwu Decoction and Sijunzi Decoction, it was named "Bazhen Decoction", which can not only replenish qi and blood; On the basis of Bazhen Decoction, adding Radix Astragali and Cortex Cinnamomi, it has become a perfect nourishing soup that people are very familiar with.

Professor Chen particularly emphasized that although Siwutang is the basic prescription for enriching blood and regulating menstruation, it is best to ask Chinese medicine practitioners to grasp the dosage and proportion.

Other women's blood tonic dishes

Braised medlar with assorted vegetables.

Ingredients: black-bone chicken, turtle, pork belly, straw mushroom and Hericium erinaceus.

Medicinal materials: American ginseng, Lycium barbarum

Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence.

Exercise:

1. Slaughter and cut live turtles. Wash black-bone chicken and cut into pieces. Wash pork belly and cut into strips. Wash straw mushroom, Hericium erinaceus, American ginseng and Lycium barbarum for later use.

2. Stir-fry soft-shelled turtle, black-bone chicken and belly strips with boiling water.

3. Put all the raw materials and medicinal materials into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, salt, monosodium glutamate and chicken essence, and simmer for 1-2 hours.

Intimate reminder: Ginseng has been used in China for more than 5,000 years. Until now, people still regard it as a good medicine to eliminate all diseases. In fact, ginseng does have high medicinal value, especially for increasing calories and treating anemia, hypertension, insomnia and other diseases. Lycium barbarum is also a very effective nourishing medicinal material, which can tonify liver and kidney, treat blood deficiency and strain, nourish liver and improve eyesight. It is definitely a good health care product!

Stewed turtle with Cordyceps sinensis

Raw materials: wild turtle

Medicinal materials: superior Cordyceps sinensis.

Seasoning: salt, monosodium glutamate

Exercise:

1. After the turtle is slaughtered and washed, blanch it with boiling water.

2. Put a proper amount of water into the casserole, add soft-shelled turtle and Cordyceps sinensis, and simmer for about 2 hours. Finally season with salt and monosodium glutamate.

Intimate reminder: Cordyceps sinensis is a very old tonic, which has been used to eliminate fatigue and enhance vitality. Although it looks a little scary, the wild Cordyceps sinensis is a rare treasure! According to medical records, Cordyceps sinensis can treat fatigue, night sweats, hot flashes and other symptoms caused by yin deficiency of lung and kidney, and can also stop bleeding and relieve cough. In addition, Cordyceps sinensis also has remarkable sedative, hypnotic, antiasthmatic and antihypertensive effects. As for soft-shelled turtle, its nourishing function is well known. Not only that, soft-shelled turtle can also inhibit the growth of tumor cells and improve human immune function!