What can't girls eat during menstruation?

After a woman's body matures, menstruation will come. During the menstrual period, women may adjust their diet due to physical discomfort. In fact, many foods cannot be eaten during the menstrual period. What can't girls eat during menstruation? Most women's bodies are relatively cool, so cold foods cannot be eaten during the menstrual period. Let’s find out what foods should not be consumed during menstruation.

1. What should you not eat during menstruation?

What can't you eat during menstruation? You can't eat cold food during menstruation, and you can't drink cold drinks during menstruation. In addition, try not to drink tea, smoke, or drink alcohol during menstruation, and do not drink caffeinated beverages during menstruation, so as not to affect menstruation and cause irregular menstruation. Foods that cannot be eaten during menstruation include:

1. Cold foods: Cold foods such as pears, bananas, water chestnuts, stone fungus, stone flower, and ground fungus. Women should try to eat less cold fruits such as persimmon, mango, watermelon, kiwi and other cold foods during menstruation, but can eat some after menstruation.

2. Tea, wine, etc.: Drinking tea during menstruation, especially strong tea, contains more than 30% tannic acid, which can easily combine with iron ions in the intestines to produce precipitation, hindering the absorption of iron ions by the intestinal mucosa. Alcohol will consume the body's vitamin B and minerals. Excessive drinking will disrupt carbohydrate metabolism and produce too much estrogen, causing early menstruation and excessive menstrual flow.

3. Caffeinated beverages: They can cause breast pain, consume more vitamin B stored in the body, and disrupt carbohydrate metabolism.

4. Spicy food: Foods such as pepper, Sichuan pepper, cloves, cinnamon, etc. are all condiments. You should not eat spicy food during menstruation. Eating spicy food during menstruation can easily cause dysmenorrhea, excessive menstrual bleeding, etc. in women.

2. What to eat during menstruation

What should you eat during menstruation? During menstruation, you should eat more easily digestible, light, and blood-enriching foods. You can eat more high-protein foods such as beans and fish, as well as vegetables and fruits. Donkey-hide gelatin, red dates, brown sugar, etc. are helpful to the bodies of women during menstruation. Recipes that can be eaten during menstruation include:

1. Ginger, jujube and brown sugar water

Ingredients: 30 grams each of dried ginger, jujube and brown sugar.

Method: Wash the first two ingredients, chop the dried ginger, remove the core of the jujube, add brown sugar and fry, drink the soup and eat the jujube.

Efficacy: It has the effect of warming the meridians and dispersing cold. Suitable for cold dysmenorrhea and chloasma.

2. Carp Blood-Nourishing Soup

Ingredients: 4 taels of black beans, 2 slices of ginger, 10 red dates, 1 carp, a small piece of tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of pepper.

practice:

(1) Remove the scales, gills, fins and internal organs of the carp, clean them, add a little oil in a pan and fry until golden brown.

(2) Remove the pulp from the black beans and clean them. Put them into a pot and fry them without adding oil until the bean skin cracks. Then wash them with clean water and set aside. Remove the core of the red dates, peel the ginger, and wash the tangerine peel and set aside.

(3) Bring the water to a boil. Add the black beans, red dates, tangerine peel and ginger and cook over high heat for 10 minutes. Then simmer for 1.5 hours.

(4) Finally, add the carp and cook for 30 minutes.

Efficacy: Suitable for blood supplement during menstruation.

3. Guidi Lamb and Pork Spine Soup

Ingredients: 9 grams of cooked rehmannia, 6 grams each of angelica, red peony root, Ligustrum lucidum, and Cuscuta australis, 50 grams of mutton, 1 section of pork spine, and 2 slices of ginger.

Method: Wash the above ingredients with clean water, put them into a pot together, add 1000mm of water and cook for 1.5 hours (1 serving).

Effect: Balances yin and yang.

4. Lotus seed and longan soup

Ingredients: 30g lotus seeds, 30g longan pulp, 20g red dates, appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: Soak the lotus seeds in water first, peel and core them, wash them, put them into a casserole together with the washed longan meat and red dates, add appropriate amount of water, boil until the lotus seeds are soft, and add rock sugar for seasoning.

Efficacy: Calming the mind and replenishing blood. Drink soup and eat lotus seeds, red dates and longan meat before going to bed. Take it 1-2 times a week and can be taken frequently. It has the effects of nourishing heart blood, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.