Can I eat burdock during menstruation?

Female friends need to pay special attention to their diet during menstruation, because the body is weaker during menstruation, and if you don’t pay attention to your diet at this time, it is easy to cause some diseases. Therefore, female friends should pay attention to some dietary taboos during menstruation. So can you eat chicken and burdock during menstruation? If you want to know whether burdock is suitable for female friends during menstruation, we must first have a deep understanding of burdock.

We also call burdock "Dalizi" or "Oriental ginseng". Burdock is very nutritious. Eating burdock regularly can have health-care effects. Burdock can treat high blood pressure, high blood lipids and other diseases.

Burdock (scientific name: Arctium lappa L.), also known as: Arctium lappa, Arctium lappa, Oriental ginseng, also known as Oriental bullwhip vegetable, etc. Japan introduced burdock from China more than a thousand years ago and improved it into food. When Japan occupied Taiwan, it required local farmers in Tainan to grow it in large quantities. The main reason was that Tainan has loose sandy soil along the Zengwen River, the climate of the Tropic of Cancer, and the extension of the famous Alishan Mountain, which made the local burdock uniquely precious. Taiwan has been eating burdock as a vegetable for many years and is known as the birthplace of burdock. It is a biennial herb belonging to the Campanulaceae family, with basal leaves broadly ovate, up to 30 cm long and 21 cm wide. Most or a few capitulums are in cymes or paniculate cymes. Achenes are oblong ovate or obliquely oblong ovate, flattened on both sides, and light brown. Flowering and fruiting period is June to September. It is mainly distributed in China, Western Europe, Kashmir region, Europe and other places. The main production areas of burdock in China are distributed in Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province. Fengxian and Peixian of Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province and Cangshan in Shandong Province have a long history of cultivation and cover a large area.

Nutritional Value

Burdock contains inulin, cellulose, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other vitamins and minerals needed by the human body. The carotene content in burdock is 150 times higher than that in carrots, and the protein and calcium content are the highest among root vegetables. Burdock root contains inulin and volatile oil, burdock acid, various polyphenols and aldehydes, and is rich in cellulose and amino acids.

Burdock root contains various amino acids essential to the human body, and the content is high, especially amino acids with special pharmacological effects. For example, aspartic acid, which has a brain-enhancing effect, accounts for 25%-28% of the total amino acids, arginine accounts for 18%-20%, and it contains Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Zn and other macroelements and trace elements essential to the human body.

Medicinal effects

Main Benefits

Burdock has the effects of treating diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and anti-cancer. It can lower blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, treat insomnia, and enhance human immunity.

Antibacterial effect

The whole burdock plant contains antibacterial ingredients, among which the leaves contain the most antibacterial ingredients, which are mainly effective against Staphylococcus aureus.

Hypoglycemic effect

The water extract of burdock fruit can significantly and persistently lower the blood sugar of rats and increase carbohydrate tolerance.

Anti-aging and oxygen free radical scavenging effects

During the normal metabolic process of human life, a substance called oxygen free radicals is produced, which is harmful to health and promotes cell aging. They can promote the production and accumulation of lipofuscin pigment - age spots. The appearance of age spots on the body surface indicates that the cells in the body have entered the aging stage. Beef radish contains peroxidase, which can enhance the activity of cellular immune mechanism, eliminate oxygen free radicals in the body, prevent the formation and accumulation of lipofuscin pigments in the body, resist aging, and provide the body with an internal protective environment to fight and eliminate oxygen free radicals.

Anticancer Effects

Arctiin can inhibit the activity of fructose phosphokinase in cancer cells. Arctigenin also has anti-cancer activity. Arctigenin also has anti-Alzheimer's effect. Modern scientific research results show that burdock contains flavonoids, which have a certain resistance to malignant tumors. Its crude extract is selectively toxic and a low amount can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and make tumor cells closer to normal cells.

Removal of heavy metals from wastewater

The adsorption capacity of burdock for metal ions is in the following order: Pb>Cd>Hg>Ca>Zn.

We introduced above that female friends are relatively weak during menstruation, so if they do not pay attention to their diet, they are prone to some diseases. Dietary care during menstruation is very important. The burdock mentioned above is very nutritious. Eating burdock regularly can help lower blood sugar and fight cancer. You can eat burdock during menstruation.