Can I eat water chestnuts during menstruation?

Maybe most of us are not familiar with water chestnuts. In fact, water chestnuts are what we call water caltrops in our daily life. They are tender and juicy, and can actually have a diuretic and laxative effect. Especially for diabetic patients, it can play a certain auxiliary therapeutic role. So do you know whether you can eat water chestnuts during menstruation? Let's take a detailed look at whether eating water chestnuts during menstruation can bring benefits to women.

In fact, the most important thing during menstruation is to focus on nutritional supplements, because this can play a better health-care role for your body. Moreover, women's physical conditions during menstruation are relatively special, so nursing work cannot be taken lightly.

Water chestnuts are tender and juicy, and can treat thirst caused by loss of body fluid due to fever. They also have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on diabetic patients with frequent urination.

The decoction of water chestnuts can promote diuresis and eliminate stranguria. It has a certain therapeutic effect on those with urinary difficulty and can be used as a good food therapy for patients with urinary tract infection. Recent studies have found that water chestnuts contain an antiviral substance that can inhibit meningitis and influenza viruses and can be used to prevent the spread of meningitis and influenza.

Effects:

Water chestnuts have a long history of being used as medicine and have been used since ancient times. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that water chestnuts are sweet and cold in nature, and have the effects of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, stimulating appetite and digestion, promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, improving eyesight and sobering up. They are clinically suitable for the treatment of yin deficiency and lung dryness, cough with phlegm, thirst and constipation, drunkenness and drowsiness. During the epidemic season of respiratory infectious diseases, eating water chestnuts is beneficial for the prevention and treatment of meningitis, measles, whooping cough and acute pharyngitis. In clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine, water chestnuts are often used to make "Xue Geng Tang" to clear away heat and remove phlegm, lower blood pressure and treat dry and hard stools.

Women can eat water chestnuts in moderation during menstruation, and moderate consumption will not affect menstruation.

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 are 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.

Because during the menstrual period, women's bodies will actually experience many discomfort symptoms, and the body's immunity will also decrease at this time, so people may be in a listless state. Therefore, it is recommended that you pay attention to your reproductive health and eat more protein and other nutritious foods.