Can women eat soybeans during menstruation?

Soybeans are a kind of food that we often eat in our lives, and for ordinary people, soybeans can be eaten. So, can women during menstruation eat soybeans? Many people actually don’t know this, but at the same time, this question is also what many female friends want to know. Soybeans are a food that appears very frequently in our lives, and some of the foods we often eat are also made from soybeans, so most people prefer to eat soybeans.

In fact, soybeans have many benefits to our human body. Soybeans are high in protein, which is what people need. Nutrition is also very important for women during menstruation, but they also need to pay attention to a lot in their daily diet. Some foods can be eaten by ordinary people, but cannot be eaten by women during menstruation. So, let’s talk about whether women during menstruation can eat soybeans.

Soybeans do not contain cholesterol and can lower cholesterol in the human body, reduce the occurrence of arteriosclerosis, and prevent heart disease. Soybeans also contain a substance that inhibits pancreatic enzymes, which has a certain effect on diabetes. Therefore, soybeans are recommended by nutritionists as an ideal health product for preventing and treating coronary heart disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis and other diseases. The phospholipids contained in soybeans are an important part of the composition of brain cells. Eating soybeans regularly has an important effect on increasing and improving brain skills.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating soybeans can help people grow skin, improve complexion, replenish essence, increase strength, and stimulate appetite. It is a tonic food suitable for the weak, with the effects of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, strengthening the body and calming the mind, promoting bowel movement, and moistening dryness and eliminating water.

Edible effects: Soybeans are sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and enter the spleen and large intestine meridians; they have the effects of strengthening the spleen and relieving fullness, moistening dryness and eliminating water, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and invigorating qi; they are mainly used to treat malnutrition, diarrhea, abdominal distension and emaciation, pregnancy poisoning, sores, carbuncles, swelling and poison, and traumatic bleeding. Soybeans can also be antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and are effective for pharyngitis, conjunctivitis, stomatitis, bacillary dysentery, and enteritis.

Tips: 1. For cramp pain in hands and feet: 100 grams of soybeans, 60 grams of fine rice bran, add water and boil until the soybeans are cooked, eat twice a day. 2. Application in burns and scalds: Drinking soybean juice boiled in an appropriate amount every day during treatment can speed up healing and leave no scars after healing. 3. People in the United States who are engaged in research on genetically modified agricultural products and human health have found that children who grow up eating soy milk have an increased risk of developing thyroid and reproductive system diseases when they grow up. According to research by specialized American institutions, this is because infants' response to phytoestrogens in soybeans is completely different from that of adults, so do not let infants drink too much soy milk.

Therefore, women can eat soybeans during menstruation, and eating them in moderation will not affect menstruation. Many women experience some uncomfortable symptoms in the few days before their period (premenstrual period), such as depression, anxiety, tension, insomnia, irritability, restlessness, fatigue, etc. It is generally believed that this is related to the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body. At this time, women should choose foods and medicines that are good for the skin and beauty, and can also replenish qi, soothe the liver, and regulate negative emotions, such as cabbage, grapefruit, lean pork, celery, japonica rice, duck eggs, fried atractylodes, yam, coix seed, lily, golden loofah, winter melon, kelp, sea cucumber, carrot, white radish, walnut kernels, black fungus, mushrooms, etc. During menstruation, symptoms such as poor appetite, back pain, and fatigue may occur. At this time, it is advisable to choose foods and medicines that are beneficial to the skin and beauty and also beneficial to the menstrual flow. Recommended foods and medicines include: mutton, chicken, red dates, tofu skin, apples, coix seed, beef, milk, eggs, brown sugar, motherwort, angelica, rehmannia, peach blossom, etc.

Through the detailed introduction in the above article, we should all know the above problems. Women who are menstruating can eat soybeans, and as long as they are eaten appropriately, it will have no effect on the body of women during menstruation. In fact, the most important thing for women during menstruation in terms of diet is to eat light food and never eat raw, cold or irritating food.