Can I eat cinnamon during my period?

Everyone may know that diet is very important to us, and diet is even more important for women during menstruation. If women want to go through menstruation smoothly, they need to work harder on diet. They can't eat anything during menstruation. In addition, women can supplement some vitamins and iron in moderation. So can women eat cinnamon during menstruation?

We know that cinnamon is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Cinnamon has very high medicinal value. Eating cinnamon regularly can help eliminate blood stasis and other effects. Therefore, female friends can eat cinnamon during menstruation.

Cinnamon (Latin name: Cinnamomum cassia Presl), also known as cinnamon, male cinnamon, jade tree, big cinnamon, spicy cinnamon, peace tree, and Chinese cassia, is the dried bark of the cinnamon plant of the Lauraceae family. The bark is aromatic and can be used as a spice. Its taste is similar to cinnamon produced in Sri Lanka, but it is spicier, not as fresh as cinnamon, and thicker. In North America, cinnamon powder is sold together without distinction, regardless of whether it comes from Chinese cinnamon or Sri Lankan cinnamon.

Cinnamon bark is stripped from the stems and branches, left to dry, and then rolled into rolls. Some varieties are scraped. The scraped bark is thin and bright reddish brown, while the unscraped bark is thick and gray. Cinnamon powder is light reddish brown. The aroma of Chinese cinnamon is slightly inferior to that of Vietnamese and Indonesian cinnamon. All three are aromatic, sweet and spicy. Chinese cinnamon and Cinnamomum cassia (C.

loureirii) is borne in a hard, wrinkled, gray-brown cup-shaped calyx, usually 11 mm (0.4 in.) long, including the calyx tube; the upper part is about 6 mm (0.25 in.) in diameter. When the calyx tube is removed and dried, it is called cinnamon bud. It has a cinnamon-like aroma and the sweet and spicy taste of cinnamon bark, and is used for food seasoning.

Medicinal value

Function and indications

Replenish Yuan Yang, warm the spleen and stomach, eliminate accumulated cold, and unclog blood vessels. It is used to treat deficiency of fire in the gate of life, cold limbs and weak pulse, yang loss and collapse, abdominal pain and diarrhea, cold hernia and running pig, cold pain in the waist and knees, amenorrhea, abdominal masses, yin carbuncle, leukorrhea, as well as floating of false yang, heat on the upper body and cold on the lower body.

"Ben Jing": It is used to treat cough and reverse breathing due to shortness of breath, vomiting and inhalation due to gas stagnation in the throat, benefits the joints, and replenishes the middle and strengthens the Qi.

"Bielu": It is used to treat heart pain, side wind, side pain, warm the tendons, dredge the meridians, relieve restlessness and sweating. It is mainly used to warm the middle, benefit the liver and lungs, treat cold and heat in the heart and abdomen, cold diseases, cholera, cramps, headaches, back pains, stop salivation, coughs, and nasal congestion. It can induce abortion, strengthen bones and joints, promote blood circulation, and relieve insufficiency; it can promote the use of hundreds of medicines and has nothing to fear.

"Material Treatise": Indications: Several types of heartache, kill three kinds of worms, mainly break up blood, relieve amenorrhea, treat soft feet, numbness, numbness, retained placenta, eliminate cough, qi stagnation, carbuncle and numbness, stop cold air in the abdomen, unbearable pain, treat dysentery and nasal polyps. Kills plant poison.

"Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can cure all kinds of wind-related diseases, replenish the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, open the nine orifices, benefit the joints, improve the essence, improve the eyesight, warm the waist and knees, break up tumors and lumps, eliminate blood stasis, cure rheumatism and contracture of joints, repair tendons and bones, and grow muscles.

"Zhenzhunang": removes wind evil in the Wei system and relieves lower abdominal pain in autumn and winter.

"The Origin of Medicine": It replenishes the deficiency of the lower burner, treats deep cold, cold shoulders and spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency. "Secret of Main Treatments": It can drain water and quench thirst.

"The Secret of Using Medicines" says: It can fight against cold evil and treat running piglet.

Wang Haogu: Supplement the deficiency of Mingmen, increase fire and eliminate Yin.

"Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats cold arthritis, wind-induced muteness, blood loss due to excessive yin, diarrhea, and dysentery due to shock. It can treat blood loss due to yang deficiency, carbuncle, acne, induce blood circulation, transform into sweat and pus, and detoxify snake venom.

In the above article, we introduced that female friends should pay attention to their diet during menstruation. A good diet is conducive to female friends to go through menstruation smoothly. The cinnamon introduced above is a common Chinese medicine. Cinnamon has the effect and function of removing blood stasis, so female friends can eat cinnamon during menstruation.