Can I drink barley tea during menstruation?

Barley tea is made from sun-dried barley and is a healthy tea drink made from whole grains. The most common effect of barley tea is to eliminate food accumulation. For women, the effects of barley tea are beautifying and nourishing the skin, warming the stomach and intestines, and strengthening the blood. It is also a good recipe for weight loss. So, can you drink barley tea during menstruation? This is an issue that women should understand clearly. Let’s learn about this knowledge together.

In fact, barley tea has a very good health-care effect on our body, and drinking barley tea during menstruation will not bring much impact on women's health. Therefore, women can drink barley tea during menstruation. I hope women can pay more attention to dietary issues during menstruation.

Barley tea is warm in nature and helps digest rice and flour foods (hawthorn is better for digesting meat foods). It is better for friends who cannot drink green tea due to poor stomachs, so feel free to drink barley tea as it promotes weight loss. In addition, barley tea can also be brewed with black tea, and the taste is also good. But it should be noted that barley malt can help reduce milk production in breastfeeding mothers.

Barley is sweet and mild in nature. It can soothe the stomach and quench thirst, eliminate thirst and remove heat, invigorate qi and regulate the middle, relieve chest tightness and lower qi, eliminate food accumulation, replenish deficiency, strengthen blood vessels and improve complexion, and nourish the five internal organs and transform grains. It can treat painful urination; treat wheat awns entering the eyes; incessant thirst, irregular drinking, and dry and charred tongue; treat water vapor disease; clear away summer heat; treat acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and throat abscesses. Barley flour can be eaten, and barley can also be made into beer, which aids digestion, soothes the liver and promotes qi, and helps regulate gastrointestinal function.

You can drink barley tea during menstruation because it warms the stomach and intestines. Unlike green tea, Tieguanyin and other teas, which are cold in nature, they are not suitable for drinking during menstruation. Moreover, during menstruation, abdominal distension symptoms usually occur, and the digestive effect of barley tea comes into play. Therefore, barley tea can be consumed during menstruation, and as long as the amount consumed is controlled, it will not affect the physical health during menstruation.