Can I eat prickly lettuce during menstruation?

I believe many people are not familiar with prickly lettuce. Another name for prickly lettuce is small thistle. This vegetable is rich in nutritional value. It is edible and has good therapeutic effects. It is very beneficial to the human body. However, eating prickly lettuce depends on the specific situation. Women who are menstruating should not eat it because this vegetable has hemostatic effects.

As we all know, female friends have to pay a lot of attention to their diet during menstruation. They cannot eat raw or cold food, spicy food, do strenuous exercise, wash their hair with cold water, take a cold shower, and even have sex during menstruation, otherwise it will be bad for both men and women. Why is it not suitable for women to eat prickly lettuce during menstruation? Let's share the effects of prickly lettuce.

Prickly lettuce is a perennial herb belonging to the Asteraceae family. It is found all over China, commonly found on ridges, edges of fields, beside ditches, and in wetlands, and is a small wild grass found everywhere. Su Song said: "Thistle is everywhere, commonly known as (green thorn thistle), 2 to 3 inches long, and its roots are delicious as vegetables." The leaves of the basal thistle are deeply pinnate, with sharp thorns on the edges, the roots are hypertrophy, and the flowers are purple-red, the same color as thistle. Great thistle and small thistle are plants of the same family but different genera. They have similar properties and are both used as medicine.

Thistle is the whole herb or rhizome of the Asteraceae plant. It is a perennial herb that grows on hillsides, wastelands, roadsides or fields, and is distributed in all parts of the country except Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet. The flowers are harvested when they bloom in summer and autumn, removed from impurities, and dried in the sun, or used fresh.

The rhizome of thistle is white and fleshy. The stem is cylindrical, 30 to 45 cm long and 2 to 5 mm in diameter. Some have branches on the upper part. The surface is gray-green or slightly purple, with longitudinal ridges and soft hairs. It is brittle, easy to break, and the cross section is hollow. The leaves are alternate, mostly wrinkled or broken. The intact ones are oblong or oblong-lanceolate when flattened, 3 to 12 cm long and 0.5 to 3 cm wide; the margin is entire or slightly toothed to deeply pinnate, with dense thorns between the teeth, the upper surface is green-brown, the lower surface is gray-green, and both sides have white spider-like hairs. The inflorescence is terminal, the involucre is bell-shaped, the bracts are yellow-green, 5 to 6 layers, linear or lanceolate, and the flowers are purple-red. It has a faint smell and a slightly bitter taste. The best ones are green in color and have many leaves.

The efficacy and function of prickly lettuce

Sweet, cool, non-toxic. Both large and small thistles have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving inflammation, stopping bleeding, restoring liver function and promoting liver cell regeneration. They are suitable for acute febrile inflammatory bleeding, jaundice, hepatitis, hot stranguria, hematuria, etc.

Nutritional value of prickly lettuce

Thistle contains volatile oils, alkaloids, resins, inulin, and cyanogenic glycosides. The whole plant of thistle contains bioalkali and saponins.

The above is a brief introduction to the effects of prickly lettuce. I believe that through the simple introduction above, everyone has a preliminary understanding and knowledge of the effects of prickly lettuce. From this we can also understand why female friends should not eat prickly lettuce during menstruation. It is recommended that female friends eat more black fungus, red dates, and drink more ginger soup and brown sugar water during menstruation, which can help to eliminate the dirty blood in the female body in time.