What's the best drink when you have your period?

Many women suffer from menstrual cramps, and even if there is no unbearable pain, many people still feel uncomfortable when their period comes. In this case, we can improve our physical fitness through diet. So, what is the best drink for women when they have their period? First of all, you need to understand that menstruation will cause the loss of iron, calcium, hemoglobin concentration and other components in the blood. Therefore, this ingredient is also the main component supplemented when drinking porridge. It seems that beef, jujube, bean curd skin, milk, etc. are all very good foods. You can use these foods to make some soups suitable for drinking during menstruation.

For example, ginger brown red bean syrup can help us get rid of the cold, and it is the best treatment for cold menstrual pain.

In addition, the black chicken and white phoenix soup is also very good. This kind of soup is very simple to make. Put the prepared black-bone chicken into the pot, and then pour the onion, ginger, salt, wolfberry, MSG, vinegar and appropriate water into the pressure cooker and cook it for 15 minutes. It is convenient and easy to prepare, and the soup tastes delicious. Black-bone chicken itself is a nutritious food, which is very beneficial to nourish the body.

Of course, if you want to eat something lighter, you can choose brown sugar, millet and red dates porridge. This is easier to do, and it can greatly help us relieve the discomfort of menstruation.

Which Chinese herbal medicines should be taken for cold menstrual pain

Traditional Chinese medicine generally differentiates heat, cold, excess or deficiency based on the time, characteristics, location and degree of pain, combined with the menstrual cycle, amount, color, quality and its concurrent symptoms, white tongue coating and pulse diagnosis, and then prescribes symptomatic treatment. Below, Mama Ke will briefly introduce the traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for people with different physical conditions.

1. People with Qi deficiency and blood stasis usually have lower abdominal pain 1 to 2 days before menstruation or during menstruation, less menstrual flow, dark purple blood with blood clots, pain is relieved after the blood clots are discharged, pain in the chest, flanks and breasts, dark purple tongue, and petechiae or ecchymosis on the edges of the tongue. The treatment is based on soothing the liver and regulating qi, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. The Gexia Zhuyu Decoction is modified with 15 grams each of Chuanxiong, white peony root, Liujinu, and Achyranthes bidentata, 12 grams each of Notopterygium wilfordii, peach kernel, safflower, Corydalis yanhusuo, Aconiti lobata, Linderae serrata, and Cyperus rotundus, 9 grams each of Citrus aurantium and Cortex Moutan, 6 grams of liquorice, and 30 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza.

2. Those with damp-cold stagnation have cold pain in the lower abdomen before and during menstruation. The pain is worse when pressed and relieved by heat. The menstrual flow is scanty, dark in color and clotted. The patient is afraid of cold and has watery stools. The tongue coating is white and greasy and the pulse is deep and tight. The treatment is to relax the meridians, resolve blood stasis, dispel cold, clear heat and remove dampness. 6 grams each of fennel, roasted ginger, and cinnamon powder, 9 grams each of Corydalis yanhusuo, Notopterygium wilfordii, and red peony root, 12 grams each of myrrh, white peony root, pollen, aconite, Linderae scutellariae, and Evodia rutaecarpa, and 15 grams each of Chuanxiong and Poria cocos.