Can I eat mugwort during menstruation?

Menstruation is a normal physiological phenomenon for women. Of course, due to the special physical condition of women during menstruation, some conditioning work needs to be done during the menstrual period. Of course, dietary regulation is essential for menstrual regulation. Many foods cannot be eaten during menstruation and will affect women's health. So, can you eat mugwort during menstruation? The following article will provide a detailed answer to this question!

1. Can you eat mugwort during menstruation?

Mugwort can dispel cold, relieve pain, warm the meridians and stop bleeding. It is mainly used to treat deficiency-cold type bleeding, especially suitable for women with metrorrhagia and fetal bleeding. It is also good at dispersing cold and dampness, warming the uterus and relieving pain. In addition, Chen Ai can also treat dysmenorrhea due to cold, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea due to cold and dampness, infertility due to uterine cold, and cold pain in the abdomen; external application can treat eczema and itching. Mugwort has the effect of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding. If you have a small amount of menstruation or irregular menstruation, it is recommended not to eat it during menstruation.

2. Healthy diet suggestions during menstruation

(1) Food: carrots, red amaranth, spinach, jujube, longan meat, pork liver, pork heart, lamb liver, beef liver, chicken liver (animal liver), eggs;

(2) Traditional Chinese medicine: Chinese angelica, white peony root, donkey-hide gelatin, Rehmannia root, Polygonum multiflorum, etc.;

(3) Medicinal foods: Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Astragalus Black Chicken Soup, Radix Shouwu and Astragalus Black Chicken Soup, Longan and Red Dates Porridge, etc.

3. The efficacy of wormwood

Mugwort is bitter, dry and pungent in nature. It can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, and relieve cold pain. It is an important medicine for gynecology. It is used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, irregular menstruation, uterine cold and infertility, such as Ai Fu Nuan Gong Pills. Stir-fried charcoal can stop bleeding and can be used to treat excessive menstruation due to deficiency and cold, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and fetal bleeding during pregnancy, such as Jiao Ai Decoction. This product can be pounded into moxa sticks and moxa cones. External moxibustion can dispel cold, relieve pain, and warm Qi and blood. The decoction can be used for external washing to treat eczema, scabies, and eczema, and to relieve itching.

Regarding the properties of mugwort, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Mugwort can cure all diseases." "Compendium of Materia Medica Congxin" says: "Mugwort is bitter and pungent, warm when raw, hot when cooked, and has a purely yang nature. It can restore the lost yang, connect the twelve meridians, run through the three yin meridians, regulate qi and blood, expel cold and dampness, warm the uterus... Using it for moxibustion can penetrate all meridians and cure all diseases." This shows that using mugwort as a moxibustion material has the effects of dredging blood vessels, eliminating yin and cold, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules, and restoring yang and rescuing from adverse conditions.

Mugwort has been used to prevent plague for thousands of years. Chinese herbal medicine can be obtained locally, and modern medical pharmacological research has shown that mugwort is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug. It has inhibitory and killing effects on many viruses and bacteria, and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases. The method of fumigation with mugwort leaves for epidemic prevention is a simple and easy method of epidemic prevention.