Can I eat ginger during menstruation?

Female friends must pay close attention to their diet during menstruation. They should not consume too much sugar during menstruation, as sweets can make our blood sugar unstable. During menstruation, you can eat more foods rich in dietary fiber. In addition, you can consume foods containing iron, magnesium and other elements during menstruation. So, can female friends eat ginger during menstruation? Let’s take a look at it together.

Ginger, a plant of the genus Zingiberaceae, is also called "ginger"; a rhizome with yellow-green flowers and a pungent aroma. Fresh or dried rhizomes can be used as seasoning. Ginger is processed into one of the medicinal ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Ginger has the effect of dispelling cold and inducing sweating, so ginger tea can treat colds. It is also one of the commonly used condiments in daily cooking. Ginger, onion and garlic are collectively known as the "three major condiments".

Ginger is pungent and warm in nature. It is good at dispersing wind and cold, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It can also warm the middle and stop vomiting, and detoxify. It is often used clinically to treat exogenous wind-cold, stomach cold and vomiting. The ancients called it the "holy medicine for vomiting." The ginger roasting method takes advantage of the characteristics of ginger and uses ginger juice as an auxiliary material to prepare the medicine to enhance the medicine's effects of removing phlegm and relieving cough, relieving adverse reactions and stopping vomiting, and reduce its toxic side effects. For example, raw bamboo shavings are good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and roasting them with ginger can enhance their effects in relieving adverse reactions and stopping vomiting; Magnolia officinalis is spicy and irritating to the throat, and roasting them with ginger can eliminate its side effects of irritating the throat and enhance its effects in soothing the stomach; roasting coptis chinensis with ginger can alleviate its overly bitter and cold nature and is good at treating stomach heat and vomiting. During menstruation, you can eat more foods rich in dietary fiber. From this point of view, it is possible to eat ginger during menstruation.

Although dried ginger and fresh ginger come from the same plant, their properties are different due to the different quality of fresh and dried ginger. Dried ginger is hot in nature and has a strong pungent taste. It is good at warming the middle and restoring yang, and can also warm the lungs and transform fluid. It is often used clinically to treat symptoms such as deficiency-cold in the middle burner, yang deficiency and collapse, and cold fluid invading the lungs, causing wheezing and coughing. Therefore, the properties of ginger juice prepared with dried ginger are different from those of fresh ginger juice. If ginger juice prepared with dried ginger is used to prepare medicines, it will definitely affect the preparation effect of the medicines and fail to achieve the purpose of medicine preparation, and it will not be able to enhance the efficacy of the medicines that have the effect of relieving adverse reactions and stopping vomiting.

The above content is the basis for me to introduce to you that you can eat ginger during menstruation. Here, I would like to ask all female friends to pay attention that the diet during menstruation should be light. You should not eat too many sweets during menstruation. You can eat more foods rich in dietary fiber during menstruation. Do not eat spicy, irritating, or cold foods. You must take care of yourself.