Can I eat crabs during menstruation?

Female friends often experience some symptoms during menstruation, which bring a lot of trouble to female friends. Although these symptoms disappear after the menstruation, is there any way to alleviate the series of symptoms that occur during menstruation? We can take good care of female friends during menstruation through diet, so that female friends can go through the menstruation smoothly.

So can female friends eat crabs during menstruation? We need to understand the effects and functions of crabs, and what kind of health benefits can eating crabs regularly bring. Let’s take a look at our introduction to crabs below.

Crab

xiè): Animal kingdom, Arthropoda, Crustacea, Decapoda, Reptilia. Crabs are crustaceans whose bodies are protected by a hard shell. Crabs breathe through gills. In biological taxonomy, crabs, shrimps, lobsters, and hermit crabs are considered the same species of animals. Most species of crabs live in or near the ocean, but some crabs live in fresh water or on land. They rely on female crabs to give birth to baby crabs. Each time, the female crab will lay a lot of eggs, the number can reach more than millions. Crabs rely on the Earth's magnetic field to determine their direction. China has a long history of eating crabs, which is recorded in "Yi Zhou Shu·Wu Hui Jie" and "Zhou Li·Tian Guan·Boli Ren".

Crabs are rich in protein and trace elements, and have a good nourishing effect on the body. Crabs contain more vitamin A, which helps the keratinization of the skin. Crabs also have anti-tuberculosis effects, and eating crabs is very beneficial for the recovery of tuberculosis.

Crab meat is cold in nature and salty in taste. It has the functions of relaxing muscles and replenishing qi, regulating the stomach and digesting food, dredging meridians, dispersing various heat, clearing away heat, and nourishing yin. It can treat bruises, muscle injuries, fractures, and allergic dermatitis. In addition, crab meat has a good therapeutic effect on hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cerebral thrombosis, hyperlipidemia and various cancers.

Crabs should not be eaten with sweet potatoes, pumpkins, honey, oranges, pears, pomegranates, tomatoes, cantaloupes, peanuts, snails, celery, persimmons, rabbit meat, and nepeta; do not drink cold drinks when eating crabs as it will cause diarrhea.

Therapeutic value

Crabs are cold in nature, salty in taste, and enter the liver and stomach meridians.

It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, replenishing bones and marrow, nourishing tendons and setting bones, promoting blood circulation and removing phlegm, removing dampness and jaundice, benefiting limbs, nourishing liver yin, and replenishing gastric juice.

It has certain therapeutic effects on blood stasis, jaundice, low back and leg pain, and rheumatoid arthritis.

【Properties】Salty in taste, slightly cold in nature. It can repair tendons and bones, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, promote dampness and reduce jaundice, and detoxify lacquer.

[Reference] Meat and offal contain protein, fat, vitamins A, B1, B2 and niacin, calcium, phosphorus, iron, glutamic acid, glycine, proline, histidine, arginine and other amino acids, and trace amounts of cholesterol.

Crab shell contains calcium carbonate, astaxanthin, astaxanthin, chitosan, protein and so on.

[Use] Used for traumatic injuries, damaged tendons and broken bones, blood stasis and swelling and pain; abdominal pain caused by blood stasis in women after childbirth; jaundice caused by damp heat, etc.

[Usage] Soak in wine, fry, decoct in soup, make into pills, powder, etc.

In the above article, we introduced that women are prone to a series of uncomfortable symptoms during menstruation. We can take good care of our diet to alleviate these uncomfortable symptoms that women experience during menstruation. The crabs mentioned above are our favorite food. Crabs have the effect of activating blood circulation and are not suitable for consumption during menstruation.