Five dietary treatments recommended for delayed menstruation

Irregular menstruation is a pain for many women, who suffer from this feeling of uncertainty. Irregular menstruation itself is bad for women's health. Occasional irregularities or delays are okay, but if it lasts for a long time it is considered unhealthy. So how to deal with delayed menstruation through diet therapy? Let's take a look!

【Black-bone chicken soup】

Ingredients: 1 black-bone chicken, 9 grams each of angelica, astragalus and poria.

Usage: Wash the chicken, remove the dirt, put the medicine into the chicken's belly and sew it up with thread, put it in a casserole and cook it, remove the residue, add seasonings and eat the meat and drink the soup, take it in 2-3 times. Take 1 dose a day before menstruation, 3-5 times in a row.

Function: Strengthens the spleen and nourishes the heart, replenishes Qi and nourishes blood; suitable for deficiency of Qi and blood resulting in scanty menstruation, light menstrual blood, dizziness, palpitations, sallow complexion, empty lower abdomen, pale red tongue and thin pulse.

【Gui Di Roast Lamb】

Ingredients: 500 grams of mutton, 15 grams each of angelica and raw rehmannia, and 10 grams of dried ginger.

Usage: Wash the mutton, cut into pieces, put it in a casserole, add the washed medicine and appropriate amounts of soy sauce, salt, sugar, rice wine, and water, braise until the meat is tender, and it can be taken regularly.

Function: Warming the middle and replenishing deficiency, invigorating Qi and arresting blood; suitable for Qi deficiency caused by heavy menstrual flow, pale color and weak quality, dull complexion, fatigue, shortness of breath, laziness to speak, pale tongue and weak pulse.

【Biochemical Honey Cream】

Ingredients: 30g each of Angelica sinensis and Motherwort, 10g each of Chuanxiong, peach kernel, licorice and Moutan bark, 5g of roasted ginger, and 50ml of white honey.

Usage: Add 500 ml of water to the first seven ingredients, boil and extract 300 ml, remove the residue, add white honey to make a paste, take 30 ml each time, 3 times a day.

Function: Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, warm the meridians and regulate menstruation; suitable for the symptoms of scanty menstruation, purple-black color, blood clots, abdominal distension and pain that refuses to be pressed, normal or purple tongue, or with petechiae, and thin, stringy and astringent pulse caused by blood stasis.

【Hen mugwort soup】

Ingredients: 1 old hen, 15 grams of mugwort.

Usage: Wash the old hen, cut into pieces, cook it with mugwort leaves, and eat it in 2-3 times. Take 2-3 doses during menstruation.

Function: Tonify Qi and retain blood, strengthen the spleen and calm the mind; suitable for those with physical weakness and inability to retain blood, resulting in menorrhagia, palpitations, insomnia, cold pain in the lower abdomen, pale tongue and thin pulse.

【Rehmannia wine】

Ingredients: 6 grams of raw Rehmannia root, 10 grams of Motherwort, and 200 ml of rice wine.

Usage: Pour rice wine into a porcelain bottle (or cup), add raw rehmannia and motherwort, steam for about 20 minutes, take 50 ml each time, twice a day.

Function: Promote blood circulation and stop bleeding; suitable for menorrhagia caused by blood stasis, purple-black color, blood clots or lower abdominal pain that refuses to be pressed, purple tongue or petechiae, and thin and wiry pulse.

Among these five dietary therapies, there is always one that is more suitable for women with delayed menstruation. Late or excessive menstruation are bothersome for women, so why not give it a try! Diet therapy is effective in improving symptoms and regulating the body. I hope that every woman with irregular menstruation can return to normal.