I feel so sore all over during my period

It is a normal physiological phenomenon to feel body aches during menstruation. This is mainly because the uterus will continue to contract during menstruation, and you will experience breast tenderness and mild diarrhea, as well as irritability and depression. Therefore, women during menstruation should pay more attention to rest, avoid eating raw and cold foods, and eat some blood-activating ingredients to alleviate the impact of menstrual complications.

Causes of body aches and weakness during menstruation

This is a menstrual syndrome. During the menstrual period, there will be lower abdominal distension, back pain, breast tenderness, mild diarrhea, fatigue, drowsiness, emotional instability, irritability or depression. These are all normal and there is no need to be overly nervous.

During menstruation, there will be symptoms of body aches and fatigue. At this time, you should consider whether it is related to qi and blood deficiency.

Also, during menstruation, women’s immunity is relatively poor, and they are more likely to feel sleepy and sore.

Note that although back pain and other symptoms are common during menstruation, you should not knock yourself at will, as this will further congest the pelvic cavity and cause excessive menstruation or prolonged menstruation.

What to do if you have body aches during menstruation

Take vitamin E, vitamin B6, calcium every day, do appropriate physical exercise, limit salt and protein intake in the half month before menstruation, and correct water and salt imbalance. Limit spicy foods.

Don't eat sweets deliberately. Such as drinks, cakes, brown sugar, and candies. Prevent blood sugar instability and avoid aggravating various discomforts during menstruation.

Eat more high-fiber foods. Foods such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, whole wheat bread, brown rice, and oats contain more fiber, which can promote the secretion of estrogen, increase the magnesium content in the blood, and have the effect of regulating menstruation and calming nerves.

Eat some foods rich in B vitamins such as walnuts and cashews between meals.

Get enough protein. Eat more high-protein foods such as meat, eggs, tofu, soybeans, etc. for lunch and dinner to replenish the nutrients and minerals lost during menstruation.

Regular and quantitative. It can avoid sudden rise and fall of blood sugar, reduce accelerated heartbeat, dizziness, fatigue, emotional instability and other discomforts.

Avoid caffeinated beverages. Drinks such as coffee and tea will increase anxiety and uneasiness; you can drink barley tea or mint tea instead.

Avoid eating food that is too hot, too cold, or has large temperature changes.

Women who suffer from severe blood loss should consume more high-fiber foods such as spinach, candied dates, red vegetables (vegetables with red soup), raisins, etc. to replenish blood.

Women who are about to enter menopause should consume more calcium-rich foods such as milk and dried fish.

Menstrual dietary supplements

Blood heat type: Peppermint leaf

Symptoms: Early menstruation; heavy, thick menstruation with blood clots; dry mouth, scanty yellow urine, and constipation.

Function: Cooling and annealing.

Ingredients: 7 grams of peony bark, 3 grams of mint, and a small amount of white sugar.

Preparation: Grind the peony bark and mint into coarse powder (ask a Chinese medicine store to grind it) and wrap it with gauze. Just brew it with hot water for ten minutes.

Time to take: five to ten days before menstruation. Take one pack per day.

Qi deficiency type: ginseng and jujube rice

Symptoms: Early menstruation, fatigue and drowsiness, shortness of breath, poor appetite, diarrhea; heavier or thinner, lighter-colored menstrual blood.

Function: Tonify Qi and blood.

Ingredients: 3 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 jujubes, 5 grams of yam, 3 grams of raisins, and a cup of glutinous rice.

Method: Soak Codonopsis pilosula, jujube and yam in water for ten minutes, boil them with water and take out the Codonopsis pilosula. Cook the boiled soup with raisins and glutinous rice to make rice.

Time to take: five to ten days before menstruation. Take one dose per day, divided into two meals.

Liver Qi Stagnation Type: Safflower Glutinous Rice Porridge

Symptoms: delayed menstruation, scanty menstruation, abdominal distension, and breast tenderness before menstruation.

Function: Soothe and regulate Qi.

Ingredients: 50 cents of safflower, 70 cents of cyperus rotundus, and 1 cup of glutinous rice.

Method: Boil safflower and balsam with appropriate amount of water into juice. Add the medicinal juice to glutinous rice and cook it into porridge.

Time to consume: Seven days before menstruation, eat on an empty stomach, for seven consecutive days.

Liver blood deficiency type: Gui, Gou Shen and Zao congee

Symptoms: delayed menstruation, light-colored menstruation, lower abdominal pain, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, and insomnia.

Function: Tonify Qi and liver blood.

Ingredients: 50 cents of angelica, 10 jujubes, 70 cents of Rhizoma Coptidis, 50 cents of Poria, 1 cup of glutinous rice, and a little brown sugar.

Method: Add appropriate amount of water to angelica, radix phellodendri, rhubarb and poria and boil them into juice. Add the medicinal juice to glutinous rice and cook it into porridge. When it is almost ready, add a little brown sugar.

Serving time: You can eat more often on normal days.

Blood deficiency type: Rouguiyin

Symptoms: delayed menstruation; scanty menstrual blood; cold and painful lower abdomen, cold hands and feet, and dizziness.

Function: Nourishes blood and dispels cold.

Ingredients: 3 grams of cinnamon, 1 liang of angelica, wine

Method: Soak cinnamon and angelica in wine and drink it after a week.

When to take: Soak cinnamon and angelica in wine and take it after a week.

Time to eat:

Five to ten days before your period, drink a small cup every night before going to bed.