What should I eat when I have my period?

Female friends often don’t know what to eat during menstruation. Many young girls do not have too many taboos about menstruation. Not only do they not care about what to eat during menstruation, but they also eat whatever they want and think it doesn’t matter much. They are very casual. In fact, this often leads to hidden dangers to the body. There are some foods that you definitely cannot eat during menstruation, such as cold foods: pears, watermelon, ice cream, etc.

Although women’s menstrual period is short, if they do not pay attention during this period, it can easily affect the health of the uterus. First of all, you must ensure that you do not overwork during menstruation, because your body is more tired and your resistance is weaker at this time. You should eat more warm foods. What should you eat when you have your period?

1. Brown sugar

Brown sugar is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It can strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach. It also has the effects of relieving pain, promoting blood circulation, replenishing blood and dispelling cold. When you are too busy or too lazy to do anything, simply make a bowl of brown sugar water or ginger sugar water, and you will feel the warmth reaching your dantian, and your qi and blood will become active.

2. Red dates and longan soup

Red dates and longan soup not only replenishes qi and nourishes the heart, but also strengthens the spleen and replenishes blood.

3. Stir-fried onions with tea oil

Stir-frying onions with tea oil is also a good recipe. Onions can promote yang and relieve arthralgia. When stir-fried with tea oil, they taste fragrant. By the way, if you add rice noodles, ginger slices and fermented black beans to make a "three-in-one soup" called "onion rice noodles", it is a folk remedy for treating colds.

4. Black-bone chicken soup

Black-bone chicken soup has always been a blessing for women. It does not cause internal heat in the body and is also nourishing. The stewing method of black-bone chicken soup is very particular. It requires a clay pot, and ginger, garlic, red dates, and kelp should be added, and it should be stewed over low heat for half a day.

4. Scrambled Eggs with Mugwort Leaves

Mugwort can warm the uterus, regulate menstruation and stop bleeding, dispel cold and dampness, and prevent spring epidemics.

In addition, for friends who suffer from dysmenorrhea, what should they eat during menstruation? Scrambled eggs with rice wine is also a good choice. You can put sesame oil in the pan, beat in the eggs, and then pour in rice wine and salt. This dish can relieve the symptoms of dysmenorrhea. Because rice wine is relatively warm, it can warm the uterus, and eggs can replenish the protein lost in the blood.