Can I eat Commelina during menstruation?

Diet plays a very important role for women during menstruation, so women should pay attention to their diet during menstruation. Many women like to eat cold food, so it is best not to eat it during menstruation. Also, you should not eat too hot food during menstruation. You can supplement more protein and eat more foods rich in dietary fiber during menstruation. In addition, you should avoid spicy food during menstruation.

Women should be very careful about the food they eat during menstruation. So can we eat Commelina during menstruation? We know that Commelina is a common Chinese herbal medicine. Commelina has a very high medicinal effect. So is Commelina suitable for consumption during menstruation?

Commelina, also known as green bamboo, green butterfly, and light bamboo leaves. It is an annual loose herb belonging to the order Pyroendospermalales, family Commelinaceae, and genus Commelina. The stem is creeping and rooting, branched, up to 1 meter long, hairless at the bottom, and likes to grow in moist grassland. The leaves of Commelina are lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, the leaves are alternate, the stems are creeping stems, the flowers are in polyphylls, terminal or axillary, monoecious, the upper two petals are blue, the lower one is white, the flower bracts are spathe-shaped, green, and have 6 stamens.

Medicinal value

Properties: sweet, slightly bitter, cold in nature. It can clear away heat, detoxify and act as a diuretic.

It is a good medicine for reducing swelling, promoting diuresis, clearing away heat and detoxifying. In addition, it has good effects on sty, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, cervical erosion and snake bites.

Pharmacological action: Aqueous extracts or decoctions of the stems and leaves of plants of the same genus can excite the uterus, constrict blood vessels, and shorten coagulation time.

Function and indications:

Promote diuresis, clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify. Treat edema, athlete's foot, difficulty urinating, cold, erysipelas, mumps, jaundice hepatitis, dysentery, malaria, epistaxis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, sore throat, carbuncle and furuncle.

① "Bencao Shiyi": It is used to treat cold and heat, malaria, phlegm and fluid, swelling of the nail, meat disease and stagnation, erysipelas in children, fever, epilepsy, abdominal distension, emphysema of the body and face, dysentery, snake and dog bites, carbuncle and other poisons.

② "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Boiling Commelina communis and adzuki beans can relieve dampness and arthritis, and promote urination.

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Nourishes Qi and blood, treats women's leucorrhea and metrorrhagia, produces new blood, stops hematuria, epistaxis, and hematuria.

In the above article, we introduced that female friends should pay attention to their diet during menstruation. Food that is too hot or too cold should not be consumed during menstruation. In addition, spicy and irritating food should not be consumed during menstruation. Female friends can eat some food rich in dietary fiber during menstruation. The Commelina mentioned above has the effect of nourishing qi and blood, so it can be eaten during menstruation.