What are some foods that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis during menstruation?

Menstruation is a love-hate relationship for women. Whenever menstruation comes, have you found some blood clots in your menstrual blood? What is going on? This kind of blood stasis and symptoms of irregular menstruation must be taken seriously as soon as possible. In fact, some foods that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis can help us regulate menstruation. The following foods have the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Let’s take a look.

1. Black fungus has the functions of invigorating qi and strengthening the body, nourishing the kidneys and stomach, and promoting blood circulation. It can resist thrombosis, lower blood lipids, and resist lipid peroxidation, thereby reducing blood viscosity, softening blood vessels, making blood flow smooth, and reducing the occurrence of blood stasis. Black fungus also has a strong adsorption effect, which is beneficial to the timely excretion of metabolic waste from the body.

2. Hawthorn is sour, sweet, and slightly warm, and enters the spleen, stomach, and liver meridians. The "Food and Materia Medica" says that it can "dissolve blood clots, qi clots, and promote blood circulation." Hawthorn has the effects of helping food, strengthening the stomach, promoting qi, activating blood circulation and relieving blood stasis. The flavonoids it contains can dilate peripheral blood vessels, has a slow and lasting antihypertensive effect, and can dilate coronary arteries, lower blood lipids and strengthen the heart.

3. Tomatoes. Tomatoes contain many ingredients that can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Pectin can lower cholesterol; flavonoids have anticoagulant effects; the yellow gelatinous substance around the seeds contains tomato factor, which can prevent platelet aggregation, maintain the elasticity of blood vessel walls, prevent atherosclerosis and improve blood circulation.

4. Ginger. Ginger is warm in nature and spicy in taste. Ginger can promote blood circulation, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and kill bacteria and detoxify. Studies have shown that ginger can lower cholesterol, blood sugar, blood viscosity, reduce platelet aggregation and accelerate blood circulation.

5. Yellow wine is sweet, bitter, spicy and warm. It enters the heart, liver, lung and stomach meridians. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation, resisting cold and promoting the effectiveness of medicine. "Yi Lin Zong Yao" says that it "disperses water, harmonizes blood, promotes qi, helps the kidneys to invigorate yang, and induces sweating." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Aged wine can harmonize the blood and nourish the qi, warm the stomach and ward off the cold; liquor can dispel cold air, dry up dampness and phlegm, and relieve depression." However, people with yin deficiency, blood loss, and severe dampness and heat should avoid drinking it.

6. Vinegar tastes sour and bitter, and is warm in nature. It enters the liver and stomach meridians. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and dispersing blood stasis, digesting food and eliminating accumulation, reducing swelling and softening hard masses, and detoxifying and treating sores. "Bencao Qiuzhen" said: "Vinegar is astringent, so many books record that it can disperse blood stasis, detoxify, relieve gas and aid food." It is used for stomach and abdominal pain, loss of appetite, vomiting blood, and bloody stools caused by blood stasis. However, people with external infection should avoid eating it, and it should not be eaten with Poria cocos.

Women's body resistance is lower during menstruation, so it is necessary to master more medical knowledge and protect themselves better. Generally speaking, blood-enriching health products and blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs should be discontinued during the menstrual period, but many women do not understand this and find that their menstrual flow suddenly increases. Therefore, we must learn more about our own bodies.