Overeating watermelon can easily lead to amenorrhea in women with cold body

Summer is the most enjoyable season to eat watermelon, especially the chilled watermelon just taken out of the refrigerator, which is sweet and refreshing and everyone praises it. However, gynecological experts remind the public that women with a cold constitution should not eat too much watermelon in the summer and should eat in moderation to avoid dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea. Kanglu Gate cares about women's health and specially recommends the following dietary therapy methods for treating dysmenorrhea in women with cold body.

Watermelon is known as "natural white tiger soup" and is a good thing for relieving heat and thirst in summer. Every summer, many people will buy one or two watermelons, put them in the refrigerator, and eat a slice when they come back from outdoors, which will bring them coolness and refreshment, and instantly relieve the heat. However, an article recently appeared online, which pointed out that there were reports that a girl suffered from amenorrhea due to excessive consumption of watermelon in the summer. Long-term consumption of various raw and cold foods and cold fruits may aggravate blood stagnation in women with cold constitution, which may lead to menstrual blockage in severe cases. So is there any scientific basis for this statement?

Dietary prescription for relieving dysmenorrhea for women with cold stagnation and blood stasis:

1. Braised beef with fennel and pepper

Ingredients: 3 grams of fennel, 3 grams of pepper, 30 grams of beef, and 15 ml of Shaoxing wine.

Preparation: Wash the beef, put it into a pressure cooker together with fennel, pepper and Shaoxing wine, add water and simmer. First cook it over high heat for 15 minutes, then change to low heat, season, take out the beef, slice it and eat.

Efficacy: dispel cold, warm the stomach, and replenish deficiency.

2. Angelica Lamb Casserole

Ingredients: 6 grams of angelica, 1.5 grams of cinnamon, 3 grams of tangerine peel, and 250 grams of mutton.

Preparation: Wash the mutton, cut into pieces, put it into a pot together with tangerine peel and angelica and simmer until it is soft, add cinnamon for 10 minutes, season and serve.

Efficacy: Warming the meridians and dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation and nourishing blood, regulating menstruation and relieving pain.

3. How to cook eggs stewed with mugwort and ginger

Ingredients: 15 grams of mugwort, 25 grams of ginger, 2 eggs Ingredients: some brown sugar Method: Add appropriate amount of water to the above 3 ingredients and cook together; when the eggs are cooked, peel them; put the eggs into the original soup, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and cook for a while. Eat eggs and drink soup, twice a day.

Efficacy: dispel cold and relieve pain, warm the meridians and stop bleeding. 4. Brown sugar ginger soup Ingredients: ginger and brown sugar. Method: wash the ginger with skin with water, and pound it into grains; put the ginger and brown sugar into a clay pot, add appropriate amount of water, and boil over high heat; then continue to simmer over low heat for 45 minutes, and drink it while it is hot; Efficacy: dispel wind and cold, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Although watermelon is refreshing and delicious, it is a cold food. If a woman with a cold constitution eats too much watermelon, it will aggravate dysmenorrhea, and in severe cases it will lead to amenorrhea. Therefore, in addition to eating watermelon in moderation, you might as well try some of the above-recommended delicacies, which can prevent and treat female dysmenorrhea and relieve menstrual discomfort.