Can Chinese medicine regulate scanty menstruation?

Many women like to regulate their bodies through traditional Chinese medicine, because most Western medicine drugs are synthesized from chemical drugs. Although they can treat some diseases, they can also cause other harm to the body. Chinese medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine are generally edible foods. By regulating the body through the effects of these foods, physical diseases can usually be solved from the root. Can Chinese medicine regulate scanty menstruation?

1. Can Chinese medicine cure scanty menstruation?

My menstrual flow is scanty, and each period only lasts three days. The daily flow is only the amount of two or three sanitary napkins. The doctor said that I have insufficient Qi and blood. I would like to know how Chinese medicine can treat scanty menstrual flow caused by insufficient Qi and blood.

2. What is the relationship between insufficient Qi and blood and scanty menstruation?

One of the most important factors that cause scanty menstruation is insufficient Qi and blood.

Menstrual irregularities caused by insufficient Qi and blood usually result in a small amount of menstrual flow, which ends in one or two days, or even stops at a drop. In some cases, the cycle is prolonged, occurring only once every few months. The menstrual flow is light red in color and thin in texture. Some accompanying symptoms may also appear, such as dizziness, palpitations and insomnia, rough and dull skin, sallow complexion, pale tongue and nails, thin tongue coating, and thin and weak pulse.

3. How to treat scanty menstruation caused by insufficient Qi and blood?

Qi and blood deficiency belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine. There is no such term as Qi and blood deficiency in Western medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is a scientific and reasonable approach to regulating insufficient Qi and blood, and it is also effective.

Changes in menstrual flow may indicate illness, or they may be due to personal mental health or environmental factors. If you have scanty menstrual flow, after excluding any disease factors, you can consult a Chinese medicine practitioner to use Chinese medicine and adjust your diet.

4. How to eat during menstruation when the menstrual flow is small

Women with scanty menstrual flow should eat more foods that are rich in iron and have good nourishing effects, such as milk, eggs, soy milk, spinach, black-bone chicken, lamb, fish roe, animal offal, black beans, sea cucumbers, walnut kernels, etc. You can drink brown sugar water to regulate your body during menstruation.

1. Choice of staple foods and beans: wheat, millet, corn, purple glutinous rice, and soy products.

2. Meat, eggs and milk can include pork, pig skin, beef, mutton, animal offal, rabbit meat, chicken, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products, etc.

3. Vegetables include rapeseed, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, spinach, amaranth, celery, lotus root, mustard greens, green garlic, cauliflower, bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, etc.

4. For fruits, you can choose warm fruits such as lychee, kumquat, pomegranate, bayberry, peach, cherry, tangerine, orange, plum, papaya, or neutral fruits such as apple, lemon, jujube, longan, grape, coconut, pineapple, etc. But be careful not to eat too much raw or cold fruits.