Can I eat pumpkin during menstruation?

Many female friends are prone to various symptoms during menstruation. We must take good care of our diet to relieve these symptoms during menstruation and allow ourselves to smoothly go through menstruation. There are many things that cannot be eaten during menstruation. Generally, you should not eat too cold or hot food during menstruation, and it is best to eat light food during menstruation. So can you eat pumpkin during menstruation?

Many friends like pumpkin very much, because pumpkin is not only delicious but also rich in nutrients. Eating pumpkin often can have good health effects. Pumpkin has the benefits of preventing and treating high blood pressure and diabetes.

Pumpkin, rice melon, pumpkin, is called pumpkin in Shandong area and is called wax gourd in Northeast China. Edible, sweet. A plant of the Cucurbitaceae family and the genus Pumpkin. Annual creeping herb, stems often root at nodes, extending to 2-5 meters, densely covered with short white bristles. The petiole is thick and native to Mexico to Central America, and is widely cultivated around the world. It was introduced into my country in the Ming Dynasty and is now widely planted in various parts of the north and south.

Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin C, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent and treat night blindness, protect the liver, make the skin tender, and neutralize carcinogens. Yellow fruits and vegetables are also rich in two vitamins, A and D. Vitamin A can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa and prevent diseases such as gastritis and gastric ulcers. Vitamin D can promote the absorption of two mineral elements, calcium and phosphorus, and thus strengthen bones and tendons. It has a certain preventive effect on common diseases such as rickets in children, myopia in adolescents, and osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people.

Pumpkin not only has high edible value, but also has therapeutic effects that cannot be ignored. According to the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", pumpkin is warm in nature, sweet and non-toxic. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It can moisten the lungs and replenish qi, resolve phlegm and discharge pus, expel parasites and detoxify, treat cough and asthma, treat lung abscess and constipation, and has diuretic and beauty effects. Research experiments by medical experts and scholars at home and abroad have shown that eating pumpkin seeds can relieve the symptoms of prostate hypertrophy (pumpkin seeds can cure prostate hypertrophy), prevent prostate cancer, prevent and treat arteriosclerosis and gastric mucosal ulcers, and dissolve stones.

The bile secreted by pumpkin can promote gastrointestinal motility and help digest food. At the same time, the pectin in it can protect people from the irritation of rough food and protect our gastric mucosa. In addition, pumpkin can restore and regenerate liver and kidney functions because it can eliminate the mutagenic effect of nitrite, a carcinogen.

Pumpkin also contains a component called "cobalt", which has the effect of replenishing blood after consumption. Pumpkin is rich in vitamins A, B, C and minerals, 8 essential amino acids and histidine essential for children, soluble fiber, lutein and trace elements such as phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc and silicon. Modern nutrition and medicine show that eating more pumpkin can effectively prevent and treat high blood pressure, diabetes and liver disease, and enhance the body's immune ability.

Pumpkin is rich in zinc, which participates in the synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins in the human body. It is an inherent component of adrenal cortex hormone and is an important substance for human growth and development. The beneficial ingredients in pumpkin for human body include: polysaccharide, amino acid, active protein, carotene and various trace elements, etc.

Nutritional Value

It can tonify the middle and replenish qi, lower blood lipids, lower blood sugar, clear away heat and detoxify, protect gastric mucosa and aid digestion. Suitable for spleen deficiency, malnutrition, lung abscess, and burns from water or fire.

According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, pumpkin is good for the stomach and liver, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, relieving inflammation and pain, resolving phlegm and draining pus, detoxifying and killing insects, generating liver qi and benefiting liver blood.

Advantages:

Preventing Disease

Prevent cancer, kill insects, treat high blood pressure, treat asthma, treat chronic cough, treat edema, ascites, urinary problems, treat habitual miscarriage, treat burns, scalds, treat bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis in the elderly, treat dysentery, relieve pain, treat diabetes, treat hot and dry symptoms, treat kidney disease, prevent neurotic alopecia, strengthen yang, improve sperm quality, and prevent male prostate swelling.

Above, we introduced that women during menstruation should pay attention to not eating too cold or too hot, and their diet should be light. The pumpkin mentioned above is a vegetable we like very much. Pumpkin is rich in nutrients and has daily health care effects. Eating pumpkin regularly can prevent and treat high blood pressure and diabetes, so you can eat pumpkin during menstruation.