Can I eat Adenophora during menstruation?

Female friends often experience various conditions during menstruation, such as oral ulcers and emotional instability. Many female friends also experience acne and changes in appetite during menstruation. These conditions will disappear after the menstruation, but it is really painful to suffer from these symptoms during menstruation. Is there any better way to relieve these menstrual symptoms?

In fact, a major factor that causes women to experience a variety of bad symptoms during menstruation is dietary problems. If the diet is not right, it is indeed easy to cause trouble during menstruation. So are there any principles that women can follow during menstruation?

Adenophora stricta Miq., a plant of the Campanulaceae family, is used as medicine with its root. It is harvested in autumn, the above-ground parts and fibrous roots are removed, the rough bark is scraped off, and it is dried immediately. It clears away heat and nourishes yin, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is mainly used to treat bronchitis, whooping cough, lung heat cough, and yellow and thick sputum.

1. Effect on immune function: Intraperitoneal injection of apricot leaf and Adenophora Root decoction (0.5 g/mouse) can significantly increase the number of lymphocytes and T cells in the peripheral blood of mice; the number of lymphocytes and T cells in the thymus also tends to increase, and can significantly increase the phagocytic percentage of peritoneal macrophages in mice; it can significantly increase the weight of the spleen of mice, but reduce the number of lymphocytes and T cells in the spleen of mice. This shows that Adenophora adenophora can enhance the body's cellular immunity and nonspecific immunity and inhibit humoral immunity. It has the function of regulating immune balance. Adenophora can also increase the lymphocyte conversion rate.

2. Expectorant effect: Gavage of 1g/kg of Adenophora Root decoction to rabbits showed that it had a certain expectorant effect, which could last for more than 4 hours, but the intensity of the effect was not as strong as that of Adenophora Root.

3. Antifungal effect: The water extract of Adenophora radix (1:2) has different degrees of inhibitory effect on skin fungi such as Microspores of tinea audouin and Microspores of tinea woolly in vitro.

4. Cardiotonic effect: 1% Adenophora ginseng extract has a significant cardiotonic effect on the isolated toad heart, increasing the amplitude of the isolated heart and the effect can last for 5 minutes.

In the article, we mentioned some menstrual symptoms that female friends often experience, such as emotional instability, oral ulcers, acne, etc. These symptoms can be alleviated as long as we master the dietary principles during menstruation. The Adenophora Root introduced in the above article has no effect on menstruation.