1, brown sugar water helps to detoxify and discharge pollutants.
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, brown sugar has the functions of harmonizing spleen, soothing liver, enriching blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and expelling lochia. Drinking more brown sugar water during menstruation can help women detoxify and drain blood. Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm, enters the spleen, and drinks some brown sugar water during menstruation, which can warm the uterus, promote blood circulation, accelerate blood circulation, and help women detoxify and replenish blood.
Practice: Boil the water and add brown sugar when the temperature drops to about 90℃ to ensure that the nutrients in brown sugar are not destroyed.
Dosage: Brown sugar water has the effect of warming and promoting blood circulation, and should not be overdone. Generally speaking, it is enough to drink 300-500ml of 20% brown sugar water every day. Drinking before going to bed in winter can prevent the uterus from getting cold.
2, brown sugar and red bean porridge can detoxify
Ingredients: 200 grams of red beans, 60 grams of brown sugar, 5 red dates and 400 grams of rice.
Practice: soak the red beans in clear water for about 5 hours, first cook the red beans, then add rice and red dates to stew together (if it is stewed in a pressure cooker, wash all the ingredients and put them directly). After cooking, you can add sugar to the pot or put it in a bowl.
Efficacy: red dates can nourish blood and soothe the nerves, regulate menstruation and detoxify; Brown sugar can warm uterus and activate qi and blood; Red beans have the functions of nourishing and strengthening, invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, and expelling toxin. Therefore, eating brown sugar and red bean porridge during menstruation is conducive to detoxification and congestion.
3, brown sugar ginger jujube drink can detoxify
Ingredients: dried ginger10g, 30g jujube, brown sugar,
Practice: Wash and slice the dried ginger, remove the core of the jujube, fry it in water together, wait until the water boils for 5- 10 minutes, cool it to about 90 degrees Celsius, and add a proper amount of brown sugar to eat.
Efficacy: Ginger can warm stomach, dispel cold and relieve pain; Jujube can nourish blood and soothe the nerves, regulate menstruation and detoxify; Brown sugar can warm the uterus and activate qi and blood. Brown sugar, ginger and jujube drinks have a good effect on detoxification and blood supplement during menstruation.
4, honey lemonade can detoxify
Ingredients: two slices of lemon and some honey.
Practice: Cut two pieces of lemon into one cup, add boiling water, and add a proper amount of honey after the boiling water warms up, one cup in the morning and one cup in the evening, each cup is about 300-500ml.
Efficacy: honey is a natural nutrient, which can clear away heat and toxic materials and moisten dryness; Lemon contains more citric acid, which can promote the secretion of gastric juice, help digestion, prevent pigmentation and help detoxification. Honey lemonade is mainly to help women detoxify during menstruation.
5, black fungus jujube porridge detoxification
Materials: Auricularia auricula (dry) 20g, red dates 10, and appropriate amount of stem rice.
Practice: soak the dried fungus in cold water, and add water to the red dates and stalks to make porridge. One bowl in the morning and one bowl in the evening.
Efficacy: Jujube has the functions of nourishing blood, calming nerves, regulating menstruation and expelling toxins. Auricularia auricula is sweet and delicious, and has the functions of detoxification, clearing stomach and intestines, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Auricularia auricula has a strong adsorption capacity, which can adsorb and excrete toxins from human digestive system. Black fungus and red jujube porridge is helpful for women to detoxify and drain blood during menstruation.
6, hawthorn cassia twig brown sugar water detoxification
Materials: hawthorn 15g, cassia twig 10g, and brown sugar 30-50g.
Practice: add water to hawthorn and cassia twig, cook for about 5- 10 minutes, add brown sugar and mix well before eating, one cup in the morning and one cup in the evening.
Efficacy: Hawthorn is warm and sweet, enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridian, and has the effect of promoting qi circulation and removing blood stasis; Ramulus Cinnamomi is warm in nature, and has the functions of tonifying Yuanyang, warming meridians and dredging veins; Brown sugar can warm the uterus and activate qi and blood. Hawthorn cassia twig brown sugar water has a good effect on detoxification and blood discharge during menstruation.
7, angelica ginger jujube tea detoxification
Ingredients: ginger, angelica, red dates, medlar and brown sugar.
Practice: Wash Angelica sinensis and red dates with clear water, soak them for 15 minutes, and then pour them into the pot together with water. Wash ginger without peeling, slice into the pot. After the fire boils, turn to medium heat and cook for about 20 minutes, and add brown sugar suitable for your sweetness. After the sugar melts, add Lycium barbarum and cook for two minutes.
Efficacy: It has the functions of enriching blood and promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, and expelling toxin and blood.
8, red bean purple rice porridge detoxification
Ingredients: peanuts, purple rice, red beans and yam.
Practice: Soak peanuts, purple rice and red beans for half a day in advance. Peel the yam and cut into pieces. Then boil a pot of water, put all the ingredients in it, stir it, and then turn to low heat and cook slowly. When the beans and yam are cooked, they are almost the same. It will take about 40 minutes. If you drink it during menstruation, you can add some brown sugar, which is good for enriching blood.
Efficacy: Peanut can strengthen spleen and stomach, benefit kidney and water, regulate qi and promote lactation, and treat various blood diseases; Purple rice can replenish blood and qi, tonify kidney and moisten liver, close uterus and nourish yin; Red beans can dispel dampness and replenish spleen; Tonify spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and benefit lung, and tonify kidney and astringent essence. Red bean and purple rice porridge has a good effect on detoxification and blood discharge during menstruation.
9. What can't I eat during my period?
1, drink less caffeinated drinks. Although caffeine can alleviate the symptoms of dysmenorrhea to a certain extent, it is also easy to cause breast pain, anxiety and irritability, so try to avoid drinking less caffeinated drinks.
2, do not drink: women are affected by hormones during menstruation, the nose of alcohol-decomposing enzymes will be reduced accordingly, so the decomposition speed of alcohol in the body will be reduced, which will increase the burden on the liver, so women should not drink alcohol during menstruation.
3, do not eat cold food: women should not eat cold and cold food during menstruation (such as snails, pears, persimmons, watermelons, etc.). ), and the content of food is likely to slow down the blood flow, leading to dysmenorrhea and even dysmenorrhea.
10, the reason why you can't drink tea during menstruation
1, why can't I drink tea during my period?
Menstrual blood contains relatively high hemoglobin, plasma protein and hemoglobin, so women should supplement more iron after menstruation, and tea contains more than 30% tannic acid, which combines with iron ions in the intestine to produce precipitation, which will hinder the absorption of iron ions by intestinal mucosa and easily lead to anemia in women.
2. Drinking tea during menstruation will accelerate the loss of iron.
The human body loses some iron to synthesize hemoglobin every day, while women will lose a lot of blood during menstruation, and iron will be lost more than usual. Drinking tea during this period will undoubtedly aggravate the loss of iron, and the stronger the tea, the lower the absorption rate of iron for the human body.
3, drinking tea during menstruation is easy to cause constipation.
Due to the secretion of lutein, many women will have constipation during menstruation. If you drink green tea, tannic acid in tea will slow down gastrointestinal peristalsis, leading to feces staying in the intestine, thus aggravating constipation symptoms.
4. Drinking tea during menstruation aggravates menstrual syndrome.
Drinking tea during menstruation is easy to aggravate menstrual syndrome such as dysmenorrhea, backache, headache and breast pain. Women's neuroendocrine regulation changes during menstruation, which is prone to a series of symptoms such as dysmenorrhea. To alleviate this situation, we need to maintain a stable emotional balance, but tea contains caffeine, which is easy to make people excited and aggravate physical discomfort.