Can I eat mung beans during menstruation?

The menstrual period every month is a very important physiological period for women. It is also a period that women need to pay special attention to. Whether it is in terms of diet or lifestyle habits, wrong practices may lead to irregular menstruation. Everyone knows that whether a woman's menstruation is normal will directly affect her reproductive function. So can women eat mung beans during menstruation? Let’s take a look together.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" states: "Mung beans have the same effect as red beans in reducing swelling and curing acne, but they are more effective in suppressing heat and detoxifying. They also replenish qi, strengthen the stomach, and clear the meridians. Long-term consumption will not cause dryness."

The heat-clearing power of mung beans lies in the skin, and the detoxifying function lies inside. If you just want to cool down, rinse the mung beans when making soup, boil it over high heat for about 10 minutes. The soup cooked in this way is green, clear and attractive. If you want to clear away heat and detoxify, it is best to cook the mung beans until they are soft. This kind of mung bean soup is turbid in color and has a poor effect in relieving heat, but it has a strong effect in clearing heat and detoxifying.

During menstruation, women's bodies are in a state of blood loss and their physical constitution is not good. If they eat cold foods, it is easy to damage the spleen and stomach, and even cause dysmenorrhea.

In addition, many people like to put the prepared mung bean soup in the refrigerator and take it out when they are ready to drink it, which tastes cool. In fact, mung bean soup should not be drunk chilled, otherwise it will cause spleen and stomach imbalance and diarrhea.

People with weak spleen and stomach do not necessarily have to choose to drink mung bean soup, they can choose to eat mung bean porridge. The method of making mung bean porridge is: put rice or millet and mung beans into a pot at the same time, add water and cook into porridge. Rice and millet have nourishing effect on the spleen and stomach.

Through the specific introduction above, we have basically understood that it is not suitable for women to eat mung beans during menstruation, especially not to drink mung bean soup. Mung beans are cold foods and are not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. Women should avoid cold foods during menstruation to ensure smooth menstruation and reduce the occurrence of dysmenorrhea.