What to eat for heavy menstrual flow

Menstruation is a common condition, but once we have excessive menstruation, it is not normal. This condition may cause women to suffer from menstrual anemia, which is very detrimental to our health. Therefore, we must improve this condition in time to avoid causing more serious harm to our bodies. So what should you eat if you have heavy menstrual flow? Please see the introduction below.

Excessive menstrual flow is a condition caused by many factors. Most of these conditions are caused by congenital kidney deficiency, excessive fatigue leading to organ damage, and kidney and spleen dysfunction. In this case, we can choose to use diet therapy to treat it.

1. Biochemical honey paste: 30 grams each of Angelica sinensis and motherwort, 10 grams each of Chuanxiong, peach kernel, licorice, and moutan bark, 5 grams of roasted ginger, and 50 ml of white honey.

Usage: Add 500 ml of water to the first seven ingredients, boil and extract 300 ml, remove the residue, add white honey to make a paste, take 30 ml each time, 3 times a day.

Efficacy: Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, warm the meridians and regulate menstruation; suitable for the symptoms of scanty menstruation caused by blood stasis, purple-black color, blood clots, abdominal distension and pain that refuses to be pressed, normal or purple tongue, or with petechiae, and thin, stringy and astringent pulse.

2. Liangdi Paste: 30g each of raw rehmannia and rehmannia root bark, 15g each of Scrophularia, Ophiopogon japonicus and White Peony Root, 30g of donkey-hide gelatin and 40ml of white honey.

Usage: decoct the first five ingredients to obtain 300 ml of concentrated juice, dissolve the donkey-hide gelatin in 60 ml of boiled water, add it into the juice, add white honey, simmer on low heat, wait until it cools, and bottle it. Take 20 ml each time, 3 times a day.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and blood; suitable for liver and kidney yin deficiency, internal disturbance of deficiency heat leading to menorrhagia, red color, dizziness, irritability and thirst, red tongue, and thin and stringy pulse.

3. Hen and mugwort soup: 1 old hen, 15 grams of mugwort.

Usage: Wash the old hen, cut into pieces, cook it with mugwort leaves, and eat it in 2-3 times. Take 2-3 doses during menstruation.

Efficacy: Tonifies Qi and retains blood, strengthens the spleen and calms the mind. Suitable for those with physical weakness and inability to retain blood, resulting in menorrhagia, palpitations, insomnia, cold pain in the lower abdomen, pale tongue and thin pulse.

This is the end of the explanation about what to eat when you have heavy menstrual flow. I hope it will be helpful to you. There are currently many dietary methods to treat excessive menstrual flow. The right food can help us solve such situations in time, prevent some improper harm, and provide more comprehensive protection for our physical condition.