Can I eat sour food when I have my period?

Recently, there has been a hot topic on Sina Weibo and WeChat: When your period comes, it is best to eat something sour, such as pickles, vinegar, and fresh fruits with strange smells, which can relieve dysmenorrhea. Can I eat sour food during my period? Can strange-tasting food really help relieve dysmenorrhea? Can I eat sour food during my period? Let's have a simple understanding and understanding of this issue. I hope the following points will be helpful to everyone!

There are indeed some taboos in the diet during menstruation. For example, spicy food, irritating food, and cold food should not be consumed during the menstrual period to prevent irritating uterine contractions and causing menstrual pain. There is no saying that strange-tasting foods can be eaten during menstruation. On the contrary, Chinese medicine has a saying called "sour and sweet nourishes yin", which means that the sour and sweet effects of Poria cocos in food can nourish yin and reduce fire, which is beneficial to regulating menstruation. Under normal circumstances, eating strange-tasting foods during menstruation is more beneficial to women's body.

However, among strange-tasting foods, especially sour fruits, most of them are cold in nature, such as pomegranate, green dates, red grapefruit, lemon, orange, etc. Eating these foods during menstruation will have a astringent effect, which will cause blood vessels to constrict and blood to stagnate, which is not conducive to the smooth flow and discharge of menstruation, but is more likely to cause menstrual cramps.

In addition, you should be cautious when eating sauerkraut during your menstrual period. Sauerkraut tastes salty and sour, is stimulating, can increase appetite and promote digestion, but sauerkraut is not suitable for long-term consumption, otherwise it is easy to cause urogenital stones, and may also cause red blood cells to lose the function of carrying CO2, resulting in insufficient oxygen in human organs. It is recommended that you best not to eat sauerkraut recently.

Things you definitely shouldn’t eat during your menstrual period:

Cold foods such as cold drinks and cold foods can stimulate the uterus and cause blood stasis and blood clots, especially aggravating menstrual pain.

Spicy hot pot and mala hot pot, although delicious, the seasonings in them are definitely taboo during menstruation.

Fried Food

During menstruation, the gastrointestinal digestive capacity decreases, and fried foods that are difficult to digest may cause stomach bloating and pain.

High-salt foods

High-salt foods can aggravate edema and should be avoided during menstruation. High-salt foods can also cause acne and headaches on the face.

Shellfish

Most of the seafood with shells are cold, such as hairy crabs, snails, etc., so you know.

Freshly ground coffee and tea

Caffeine can cause blood vessel dilation and increase menstrual flow, so foods containing caffeine should be consumed in moderation.

Soda

Soda can hinder the digestion and absorption of iron and aggravate the symptoms of anemia during menstruation.

During the alcohol physiological period, the liver's ability to dissolve alcohol decreases, which not only makes it easier to get drunk but also more likely to damage the liver.

Cool vegetables and fruits

Cold vegetables and fruits such as spring bamboo shoots, loofah, and green beans; cold fruits such as persimmons, melons, pears, and red grapefruit are best not to eat.

Things you should and shouldn’t eat vary from person to person:

Milk, soy milk, pure honey, bananas and apples

Women who have symptoms such as fever and constipation during menstruation can eat a moderate amount to help relieve the symptoms; on the contrary, women with a cold constitution are prone to menstrual cramps.

Rose tea, dark chocolate

These two kinds of food are beneficial to relax the meridians, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. If the menstrual flow is light, and the color is dark with blood clots, you can eat some of them to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and regulate menstruation; of course, girls who have heavy menstrual flow are not suitable to eat them.

Red dates can nourish blood and qi, but they will aggravate abdominal distension and edema. If girls have menstrual indigestion and edema, it is best not to eat red dates to nourish blood and qi. It is recommended to eat bright red meat and internal organs instead, which can also nourish blood and qi.