Can I eat ginger during menstruation?

Female friends must pay close attention to their diet during menstruation. They should not consume too much sugar during menstruation. In other words, it is best to eat less sweets during menstruation, because we know that sweets can make our blood sugar unstable. During menstruation, you can eat more foods rich in dietary fiber. In addition, you can consume foods containing iron, magnesium and other elements during menstruation. So, can female friends eat ginger during menstruation?

I believe everyone is familiar with ginger. Ginger is a common seasoning. In fact, in addition to being edible, ginger has very obvious medicinal effects. Ginger has benefits in terms of sterilization and anti-cancer.

Ginger, a plant of the genus Zingiberaceae, is also called "ginger"; a rhizome with yellow-green flowers and a pungent aroma. Fresh or dried rhizomes can be used as seasoning. Ginger is processed into one of the medicinal ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine. Ginger has the effect of dispelling cold and inducing sweating, so ginger tea can treat colds. It is also one of the commonly used condiments in daily cooking. Ginger, onion and garlic are collectively known as the "three major condiments".

Other names: ginger, white ginger, Sichuan ginger. Ginger is the rhizome of the ginger plant of the ginger family. It is a perennial herb, and the edible part is the thick rhizome. Ginger is native to China and can be harvested twice a year: young ginger in early autumn and old ginger in late autumn. Ginger is an extremely important condiment and is rarely eaten alone as a vegetable. It is also an important Chinese medicinal material, which has the effect of promoting hair growth and darkening hair, and is also a beneficial health product for the cardiovascular system.

Ginger is pungent and warm in nature. It is good at dispersing wind and cold, resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It can also warm the middle and stop vomiting, and detoxify. It is often used clinically to treat exogenous wind-cold, stomach cold and vomiting. The ancients called it the "holy medicine for vomiting." The ginger roasting method takes advantage of the characteristics of ginger and uses ginger juice as an auxiliary material to prepare the medicine to enhance the medicine's effects of removing phlegm and relieving cough, relieving adverse reactions and stopping vomiting, and reduce its toxic side effects. For example, raw bamboo shavings are good at clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and roasting them with ginger can enhance their effects in relieving adverse reactions and stopping vomiting; Magnolia officinalis is spicy and irritating to the throat, and roasting them with ginger can eliminate its side effects of irritating the throat and enhance its effects in soothing the stomach; roasting coptis chinensis with ginger can alleviate its overly bitter and cold nature and is good at treating stomach heat and vomiting.

Although dried ginger and fresh ginger come from the same plant, their properties are different due to the different quality of fresh and dried ginger. Dried ginger is hot in nature and has a strong pungent taste. It is good at warming the middle and restoring yang, and can also warm the lungs and transform fluid. It is often used clinically to treat symptoms such as deficiency-cold in the middle burner, yang deficiency and collapse, and cold fluid invading the lungs, causing wheezing and coughing. Therefore, the properties of ginger juice prepared with dried ginger are different from those of fresh ginger juice. If ginger juice prepared with dried ginger is used to prepare medicines, it will definitely affect the preparation effect of the medicines and fail to achieve the purpose of medicine preparation, and it will not be able to enhance the efficacy of the medicines that have the effect of relieving adverse reactions and stopping vomiting.

According to Chinese medicine theory, ginger is a yang-enhancing product. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has always had the saying that "a man cannot go a hundred days without ginger." In his "Dongpo Miscellaneous Notes", the Song Dynasty poet Su Shi wrote about an old monk in his 80s at the Jingci Temple in Qiantang, Hangzhou, who had a childlike face and said that he "had been taking raw ginger for 40 years, so he did not age." Legend has it that White Snake stole the magic herb to save Xu Xian, and this magic herb was ginger sprout. Ginger is also known as "resurrection grass", and ginger soup is also called "resurrection soup".

Brown sugar like ginger tea:

Brown sugar has the function of nourishing blood and activating blood circulation. Ginger can be added to brown sugar and brewed together, which can strengthen the stomach and intestines, dispel cold and relieve fever, promote blood circulation, and relieve menstrual discomfort.

In the above article, we introduced that female friends should have a light diet during menstruation. They should not eat too many sweets during menstruation. They can eat more foods rich in dietary fiber during menstruation. The ginger introduced above is a common seasoning. You can eat ginger during menstruation. The above article introduces a medicinal diet to relieve menstrual symptoms.