What to do if you have scanty menstruation? 10 measures to deal with it!

When female friends find that the menstrual flow is significantly less, they need to pay great attention to it. First of all, they should adjust their mentality, pay more attention to their diet, maintain a regular daily routine, get enough sleep, etc.

1. Adjust your mindset

Women experience greater mood swings and are more prone to anger during menstruation. Especially when menstruation is abnormal, emotions such as tension will appear, and the psychological pressure will be even greater. At this moment, you should adjust your mentality and get rid of negative emotions, which will help regulate menstruation.

2. Don’t use cold water

Many women know that it is best not to take cold showers during menstruation. In fact, generally speaking, you can use cold water during menstruation. However, people with irregular menstruation should avoid cold water to avoid the stimulation of cold and make the situation worse.

3. Eat more iron-rich and nutritious foods

Women with scanty menstrual flow should eat more iron-rich and nourishing foods. Supplement the body with enough iron to prevent iron deficiency anemia; nutritious food can strengthen the body. Foods such as black-bone chicken, lamb, fish roe, shrimp, prawns, pig and sheep kidneys, mussels, black beans, sea cucumbers, and walnut kernels all have nourishing effects.

4. Avoid eating raw or cold food

For people with normal menstruation, eating some raw and cold food during menstruation will not have much impact. However, people with light menstrual flow should not eat raw or cold food from one week before menstruation to the end of menstruation.

5. Develop a regular work and rest habit

Since irregular work and rest is one of the reasons for scanty menstruation, in order to regulate menstruation, you need to develop regular work and rest habits and avoid staying up late.

6. Avoid overwork

It is best for women not to overwork themselves during menstruation. Because many women feel tired and have back pain during their menstrual period. If they overwork themselves, it will affect the function of their organs and their metabolism. Therefore, female friends should try to keep their lives in a leisurely state during menstruation and avoid overworking their body and mind.

7. Drink brown sugar water

Many female friends will drink a cup of warm brown sugar water when they have dysmenorrhea. In fact, women with light menstrual flow should also drink a cup of brown sugar water every day when their period comes to help promote the body's metabolism and make the menstrual flow return to normal.

8. Motherwort Eggs

Preparation method: Take 15 grams of motherwort and 1 egg, add water and cook together. After cooking, eat the egg and drink the soup. This medicinal food is suitable for women with blood stasis. It helps to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, improve scanty menstruation or blood clots, and purple or dark menstrual blood. In addition, it also improves the symptoms of delayed menstruation.

9. Four-ingredient Black Chicken Soup

Method: Take 15 grams of cooked rehmannia, 10 grams of angelica, 10 grams of white peony root, 5 grams of Chuanxiong, half a black-bone chicken, and 3 slices of ginger, add water and stew. After stewing, add a few pieces of green onion and serve.

Siwu Black Chicken Soup is suitable for women with blood deficiency. It has the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing blood, can improve physical fitness, make the complexion more rosy, and at the same time regulate the condition of scanty menstruation.

10. Mugwort and ginger eggs

Preparation method: Take 10 grams of mugwort leaves and 15 grams of ginger, add 1 bowl of water and boil until half a bowl, then remove the residue. Crack the eggs into a bowl, put them into the soup and cook until done, 1-2 times a day.