Can I eat pig skin during menstruation?

I believe everyone is very familiar with pig skin. In fact, we can eat pig skin often. We can also use pig skin as an ingredient to match many other ingredients to make various dishes. Our common dishes made with pig skin as an ingredient include braised pig skin, pig skin jelly, and pig skin stewed with yam, etc. Pig skin is not only delicious but also has certain health benefits.

The therapeutic value of pig skin is very high. Eating pig skin regularly can nourish blood and replenish qi. Pig skin can be used to treat symptoms such as irritability and anemia. Pig skin is a very good beauty food. Pig skin can moisturize the skin and delay aging.

Pig skin is a meat product raw material with high protein content. Meat products such as pork belly, jelly, ham, etc. processed from pig skin are not only tough, with excellent color, aroma, taste and texture, but also have important physiological health care effects on human skin, tendons, bones and hair. The protein content in pig skin is 2.5 times that of pork, the carbohydrate content is 4 times higher than that of pork, and the fat content is only 1/2 of that of pork.

It has the effects of nourishing yin, replenishing deficiency, nourishing blood and invigorating qi; it can be used to treat irritability, sore throat, anemia and various hemorrhagic diseases.

The medicinal name of pig skin is pig skin. Pig skin tastes sweet and cool in nature. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding, replenishing essence and blood, moisturizing the skin, making hair shiny, reducing wrinkles and delaying aging. Pig skin can be processed and boiled into animal glue. The "new donkey-hide gelatin" sold on the market today is "donkey-hide gelatin" made by boiling pig skin instead of donkey skin. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, created the recipe of "Pig Skin Soup" in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", believing that it has the effect of "regulating blood circulation and moisturizing skin". Pig skin (Tangye Materia Medica)

It is the skin of pigs, a member of the Suidae family.

Chemical composition: water content 46%, protein 26.4%, fat 22.7%, ash 0.6%.

Nature and flavor: Pig skin is sweet and cool in nature.

1. "Annotations on Treatise on Febrile Diseases": sweet in taste, cold.

2. "Bencao Mengquan": sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, non-toxic.

Meridians: "Tangye Bencao" enters the foot Shaoyin meridian.

Functions and indications - The efficacy of pig skin "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats Shaoyin diarrhea and sore throat.

The earliest person in my country to use pig skin for beauty and treatment was Zhang Zhongjing, the medical saint of the Han Dynasty, who made "pig skin soup" from pig skin to treat Shaoyin diarrhea and sore throat. In his "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", he pointed out that pig skin has the function of "regulating blood circulation, moisturizing skin", and has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting body fluid, and quenching thirst. The so-called "pig skin soup" is to take 48 grams of pig skin, add appropriate amount of water, boil until cooked, then add 30 grams of white rice flour and 48 grams of white honey, stir well and boil. Pig skin soup is effective for sore throat and dry throat caused by internal heat, as well as diarrhea due to spleen deficiency. "Changsha Yaojie" records that pig skin is sweet and cool in nature. Eating it can clear away internal heat, clear and descend the lung qi, and return the floating fire to its roots. Sore throat and mental depression will naturally disappear. Some Chinese medicine practitioners believe that eating pig skin regularly can treat nosebleeds, bleeding teeth, purpura, hemorrhoidal bleeding, blood in the stool and anemia.

Above we introduced what pig skin is and its nutritional value. We know that pig skin is rich in nutrients. Pig skin is not only edible but also has high therapeutic value. Eating pig skin regularly can not only have the benefits of beauty and delaying aging, but also can replenish blood and treat irritability. Therefore, pig skin is suitable for consumption during menstruation. Of course, we should also pay attention to the high fat content of pig skin, so we can't eat too much.