Why is menstruation always black?

Menstruation is a physiological reaction of women. It comes on time almost every month. Normal menstruation should be dark red and contain some small blood clots. However, some women will find that the menstrual blood they flow during menstruation is not dark red but black. When seeing this, many women who experience this situation will worry that there is something wrong with them. So what causes all menstrual blood to be black?

Why is menstrual blood black?

Why is menstruation black? Black menstruation is mostly a manifestation of qi stagnation and blood stasis, which is the most common cause of menstrual disorders in modern women. High stress in life, irregular lifestyle, introverted personality, anxiety, depression and other negative emotions that cannot be vented normally may lead to liver qi stagnation and poor blood circulation, thus causing irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea. This situation is very common.

If your menstrual blood is dark red throughout the entire process and there are a lot of blood clots, it is abnormal. If the menstrual period is accompanied by symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, shock, etc., it is also considered abnormal menstruation. It is normal to exceed the normal range once in a while, but it is abnormal if it continues for more than two months.

The cause of black menstrual period should be identified before treatment. For dark menstruation caused by mental factors, you first need to adjust your emotions, relieve stress, and relax, and then conduct scientific conditioning under the guidance of a doctor.

How to regulate black menstruation

After figuring out why menstruation is black, you should start to regulate it. When the menstrual blood is black, you should keep a good mood, eat a light diet, keep warm, develop a good work and rest schedule, try to go to bed before 11 pm and get up at 7 am. Don't go on a diet blindly to lose weight, and it's best not to take diet pills, otherwise it will lead to irregular menstruation or even amenorrhea.

The do's and don'ts of diet during menstruation are also a key factor in regulating dark menstruation. It should be based on personal constitution. Mainly, it is necessary to avoid eating cold foods such as pears, kelp, etc., avoid eating spicy foods such as pepper and pepper, avoid eating too salty food, and avoid drinking strong tea or coffee.

If the menstrual blood is black and accompanied by a long period and heavy menstrual flow, in addition to general hemostatic measures, hormones or curettage may be used to stop the bleeding, or oral blood-enriching drugs or infusion treatment may be used as appropriate.

What to eat if your menstrual period is black

What should you eat for black menstruation? Black menstruation can be divided into two types: Qi stagnation and blood stasis type and blood cold type. Different dietary therapy methods can be selected according to different syndromes:

1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: either first or later, the amount is uncertain

Symptoms: Menstruation is early or late, the amount of blood is irregular, the flow is not smooth, the blood is dark purple with clots, and the pain is relieved when the blood clots are discharged. Before or during the early stages of menstruation, the lower abdomen is swollen and painful and refuses to be pressed. Some people even experience amenorrhea, metrorrhagia (heavy flow or continuous leakage), and infertility.

It is often accompanied by premenstrual breast pain, chest and flank discomfort, lower abdominal distension or stabbing pain (the pain location is fixed), depression or irritability, dark red tongue, thin white fur, and wiry pulse.

Regulate menstruation:

(1) Before menstruation, you can use drugs that promote qi circulation and remove blood stasis to regulate your body. For people who experience heavy blood clots and abdominal pain during menstruation, they can use Danshen or Panax notoginseng to cook lean meat, or use Motherwort to cook eggs or lean meat before and during menstruation to help relieve abdominal pain and reduce blood clots.

(2) After menstruation, the focus is on nourishing yin, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the spleen, and appropriate use of lily, ophiopogon, julibrissin, floating wheat, amomum, etc. stewed with lean meat.

2. Cold blood type: delayed menstruation and scanty menstruation

Performance:

(1) In patients with excess cold, menstruation is delayed, the amount of menstruation is scanty and clotty, and the color of menstruation is dark. Cold pain in the lower abdomen before and during menstruation can be relieved by warming up. Most women have a history of wading in the rain, catching a cold, or eating raw or cold food during menstruation. The tongue is pale and dark, the tongue coating is thin white, and the pulse is tight.

(2) Those with deficiency and cold (uterine cold) have delayed menstruation, less menstruation, lighter color, loose menstruation without clots, infertility after a long marriage or prone to miscarriage. Accompanied by cold limbs, cold pain and discomfort in the lower abdomen or waist; indigestion, poor appetite and fatigue, loose stools; or dizziness, tinnitus, dark circles under the eyes or around the lips, soreness in the waist and knees, low libido, nocturia or clear and long urination, etc. The tongue is pale red, the coating is thin white, and the pulse is deep, thready and weak.

Regulate menstruation:

(1) People with excessive cold should eat less raw and cold food and focus on keeping warm. If your menstrual flow is too little, you can take brown sugar ginger juice, soak your feet in ginger water, and moxibustion on Sanyinjiao and Guanyuan points also has a certain relieving effect.

(2) For those with coldness and deficiency after menstruation, you can cook chicken with mugwort leaves or lamb with angelica and ginger.