Can I eat vegetables during menstruation?

Green vegetables should be very familiar to everyone, because most people can eat green vegetables frequently in their daily life. In fact, most people can eat green vegetables, but can women during menstruation also eat green vegetables? Many people are not clear about this. Although green vegetables are very common in our lives and many people like to eat them, most people do not consider this issue when eating them.

The word menstruation is very familiar to women, because most women spend half of their lives with menstruation. Due to physical reasons, women need to pay attention to many things during menstruation, especially diet. So, let’s talk about the question of whether you can eat green vegetables during menstruation.

Green cabbage, also known as Chinese cabbage, is called rapeseed in Northeast China. It is an annual herb with stems and leaves that are vegetables and is dark green in color. It likes cold weather and has strong cold resistance. The minimum temperature for seed germination is 3-5℃, and seedlings can emerge in 3 days under 20-25℃. The root system is relatively developed, the main root is deep in the soil, and there are many branches and fine roots. It requires a deep soil layer with good structure and rich organic matter. It should be loam soil that can retain fertilizer and water and is loose and breathable. In weakly acidic or neutral soil, it is more conducive to increasing yield and improving the oil content of rapeseed.

Green vegetables contain a variety of nutrients and are rich in vitamin C. The oil content of rapeseed seeds is 35~50%, and its rapeseed oil is rich in fatty acids and multiple vitamins and has high nutritional value. It is not only a good edible vegetable oil, but also has a wide range of uses in industry.

Medicinal effects

Lowering blood lipids: Green vegetables are low-fat vegetables and contain dietary fiber, which can combine with bile salts and cholesterol and triglycerides in food. They are cold in nature and can damage the spleen and stomach. Be sure to add a little warming herb to alleviate the cold nature. It is excreted in the feces, thereby reducing the absorption of lipids, so it can be used to lower blood lipids. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that green vegetables can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, disperse blood and reduce swelling. They can be used to treat abdominal pain caused by blood stasis in pregnant women after childbirth, as well as to treat carbuncle and erysipelas.

Detoxification and swelling reduction: The plant hormones contained in green vegetables can increase the formation of enzymes, which have an adsorption and repulsion effect on carcinogens entering the human body, so they have anti-cancer functions. In addition, it also has the effects of promoting blood circulation, enhancing the liver's detoxification mechanism, and has the effects of treating skin sores and boils. Mastitis has a therapeutic effect.

Relax the intestines and promote bowel movements: Green vegetables contain a large amount of plant fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis, increase the volume of stool, and shorten the time that stool stays in the intestinal cavity, thereby treating various constipation and preventing intestinal tumors. It is mainly used to treat wandering erysipelas, furunculosis of hands and feet, mastitis, habitual constipation, calcium deficiency in the elderly and other diseases.

Beauty and health care: Vitamin C and carotene contained in green vegetables are important nutrients for maintaining the growth of human mucous membranes and epithelial tissues. Regular consumption has a beauty effect. Green vegetables have the highest calcium content among green leafy vegetables. An adult who eats 500 grams of green vegetables a day can meet their physiological needs in terms of calcium, iron, vitamins A and C. In addition, green vegetables can help enhance the body's immune ability.

Nectar effects: Green vegetable nectar has the effects of clearing away heat and moistening dryness, dilating blood vessels, promoting blood circulation and breaking up qi, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and harmonizing blood and nourishing the body. It is often used for patients with liver and gallbladder system diseases, weak spleen and stomach, and for treating sores and boils.

Nature and flavor: Cool in nature, sweet in taste and can easily damage the spleen and stomach, a little bit of coldness will warm and moderate the medicinal properties. Enters the liver, spleen and lung meridians.

Seeds pungent, warm. It can promote blood circulation, reduce swelling and detoxify, treat carbuncle, erysipelas, vomiting blood due to overwork, fever sores, postpartum heart and abdominal diseases, retained lochia, postpartum diarrhea; intestinal obstruction caused by ascariasis, relieve gas and swelling, bloody dysentery, stomachache, neuralgia, and head congestion. So, you can eat vegetables during your menstrual period, but remember not to eat too much.

Therefore, through the detailed introduction in the above article, we know that because green vegetables are cold in nature, it is generally better for women during menstruation to eat less green vegetables. I hope that the majority of female friends will pay attention to this. In fact, when women are menstruating, in addition to paying more attention to their diet, there are many other things they need to pay attention to in their lives. They should pay attention to keeping warm and must not catch a cold.