Can I eat lotus seeds during menstruation?

Lotus seeds are ubiquitous in the lives of most of us, so most people are not unfamiliar with them. Lotus seeds mainly live on sleep, and strictly speaking, they are a kind of fruit of the lotus. In reality, there are still many people who like to eat lotus seeds. So, can women during menstruation eat lotus seeds? I believe that many people do not know the answer to this question, because many female friends have never eaten lotus seeds.

Menstruation is actually very important for us women, and many of this aspect can lead to some seasonal diseases in the human body. And some serious ones may even cause irreversible damage. Lotus seeds, after investigation, are edible by most people. But this may not be the case for women who are menstruating. So, let’s talk about this issue below.

You can eat lotus seeds during menstruation. During menstruation, you should pay attention to keeping warm, avoid cold, cool, raw, and cold stimulation to prevent the invasion of cold evil; pay attention to rest, reduce fatigue, strengthen nutrition, and enhance physical fitness; you should try to control drastic emotional fluctuations, avoid strong mental stimulation, and keep a happy mood; you should avoid excessive sexual intercourse at ordinary times, and sexual intercourse is absolutely prohibited during menstruation. During menstruation, you should pay attention to diet regulation. Avoid eating raw, cold and cool foods before and during menstruation to avoid cold stagnation and blood stasis which may aggravate dysmenorrhea. Those with heavy menstrual flow should not eat spicy and dry foods to avoid heat forcing blood circulation and causing more bleeding.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus seeds are mild in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and enter the heart, lung, and kidney meridians. It has the functions of tonifying the spleen, benefiting the lungs, nourishing the heart, benefiting the kidneys and strengthening the intestines. It is suitable for symptoms such as palpitations, insomnia, physical weakness, spermatorrhea, excessive leucorrhea, and chronic abdominal diseases. The green germ in the middle of the lotus seed is called lotus seed core. It tastes very bitter, but it is a good medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of clearing away heat, consolidating essence, calming the nerves, strengthening the heart, and lowering blood pressure. It can treat symptoms such as irritability, confusion, nocturnal emission, and spermatorrhea caused by high fever. The "house" where lotus seeds live is called lotus pod, also known as lotus shell. It can cure retained placenta, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, and uterine bleeding. There is also a kind of "stone lotus seed", also known as sweet stone lotus, which is named after the lotus seeds fall into the mud after aging in the lotus pod and become hard and black like stone over time. It is commonly used clinically to treat symptoms such as bitter mouth and dry throat, fever, chronic gonorrhea and dysentery.

Through the detailed introduction in the above article, I believe everyone should have understood the above problems. In fact, there are many foods that women cannot eat during their menstrual period, and many foods are not tasty. The foods you can eat include: brown sugar water, red dates, spinach, etc.; the foods you generally cannot eat include: cold foods such as crabs, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, etc.