Can I drink Qi and blood tonic during menstruation?

Can women replenish qi and blood during menstruation?

During menstruation, the body's resistance decreases and emotions are prone to fluctuate. Some people may experience symptoms such as poor appetite, back pain, and fatigue. Due to menstrual blood loss, especially menorrhagia, the main components of blood such as plasma protein, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, etc. will be lost with each menstruation. Therefore, within 1 to 5 days after the menstruation is over, protein, minerals and blood-enriching foods should be supplemented. Choose foods and Chinese medicines that have both beauty-enhancing and blood-replenishing effects, such as milk, eggs, pigeon eggs, quail eggs, beef, mutton, pig pancreas, water chestnuts, spinach, cherries, longan meat, lychee meat, carrots, apples, angelica, safflower, peach blossom, cooked rehmannia, and polygonatum.

During menstruation, you should also supplement some foods that are beneficial to the "flow of menstruation", such as mutton, chicken, red dates, tofu skin, apples, coix seed, milk, brown sugar, motherwort, angelica, longan and other warm tonic foods. When you have symptoms such as poor appetite and back pain, you should choose foods that are nutritious, spleen-strengthening, appetite-stimulating, and easily digestible, such as dates, noodles, and coix seed porridge. To maintain nutritional balance, fresh vegetables and fruits should be consumed together. Food should be mainly fresh, which is not only delicious and easy to absorb, but also has less nutritional damage.

What are the foods that replenish qi and blood in the pre-pregnancy diet?

1. Black Chicken

Black chicken is often used as food for postpartum women, which can promote wound healing. If black chicken is used to stew soup, it is the best choice for replenishing blood and qi.

2. Brown sugar

Brown sugar is one of the most common foods for replenishing blood and qi in our daily life. Moreover, while replenishing blood, brown sugar can also solve the troubles of dysmenorrhea for many women.

3. Peanut oil

Sweet in taste, neutral in nature. Function: Nourishing and laxative. Suitable for dry intestines and constipation. People with diarrhea and loose stools should avoid eating it.

4. Black beans

In ancient my country, people have always believed that eating beans is beneficial. Most books say that black beans can make people's hair darker. In fact, black beans can also produce blood. How to eat black beans depends on personal preference. If it is postpartum, it is recommended to cook black-bone chicken with black beans.

5. Longan meat

Longan meat is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and has the effect of regulating the heart and spleen meridians. It also has the effects of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind. It is suitable for people with spleen deficiency and symptoms such as palpitations, insomnia, and forgetfulness. However, those who suffer from dampness syndrome, heat syndrome, qi stagnation syndrome, stomach and abdominal distension, poor appetite and loose stools should not eat it.

6. Lychee

It tastes sweet and sour, is warm in nature, and enters the spleen and liver meridians. Function: Nourishes the spleen and blood, promotes fluid production and quenches thirst, regulates qi and relieves pain. It is suitable for stomachache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea caused by deficiency of cold; stomachache, abdominal pain, and hiccups caused by qi stagnation. People with heat syndrome or yin deficiency and excess fire should avoid eating it.

3. Peanut oil

Sweet in taste, neutral in nature. Function: Nourishing and laxative. Suitable for dry intestines and constipation. People with diarrhea and loose stools should avoid eating it.

4. Black beans

In ancient my country, people have always believed that eating beans is beneficial. Most books say that black beans can make people's hair darker. In fact, black beans can also produce blood. How to eat black beans depends on personal preference. If it is postpartum, it is recommended to cook black-bone chicken with black beans.

5. Longan meat

Longan meat is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and has the effect of regulating the heart and spleen meridians. It also has the effects of nourishing the heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind. It is suitable for people with spleen deficiency and symptoms such as palpitations, insomnia, and forgetfulness. However, those who suffer from dampness syndrome, heat syndrome, qi stagnation syndrome, stomach and abdominal distension, poor appetite and loose stools should not eat it.

6. Lychee

It tastes sweet and sour, is warm in nature, and enters the spleen and liver meridians. Function: Nourishes the spleen and blood, promotes fluid production and quenches thirst, regulates qi and relieves pain. It is suitable for stomachache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea caused by deficiency of cold; stomachache, abdominal pain, and hiccups caused by qi stagnation. People with heat syndrome or yin deficiency and excess fire should avoid eating it.