What is the best porridge to eat during menstruation?

Menstruation is a common occurrence for women every month. From the first menstruation to the following decades, healthy women will have their period every month, and they are relatively weak during this period. Women need to take good care of themselves during menstruation and can carefully eat some warm porridge. The first recommended porridge is brown sugar millet and jujube porridge, followed by pork liver porridge, and red date glutinous rice porridge, all of which can relieve menstrual abdominal pain.

1. Brown sugar millet jujube porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of millet, 5 dates, 5 wolfberries, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Method: Wash the millet, remove the core of the red dates, wash them, and cut them into small pieces; put the prepared ingredients into the electric pressure cooker, add appropriate amount of clean water and press the porridge setting; after the porridge is cooked, add brown sugar and wolfberry and stir evenly.

Efficacy: Relieve menstrual discomfort symptoms.

2. Astragalus Chicken Congee

Ingredients: 1 hen weighing 1000-1500 grams, 15 grams of astragalus, and 100 grams of rice.

Method: clean the hen, boil the chicken juice, boil the astragalus juice, add 100 grams of rice and cook porridge.

Efficacy: Nourishes Qi and blood, replenishes essence, suitable for anemia patients with physical weakness, Qi and blood deficiency, and malnutrition.

3. Pork liver porridge

Ingredients: 100-150 grams of pork liver (lamb liver, beef liver, chicken liver are all OK), 100 grams of rice, appropriate amounts of onion, ginger, oil, and salt.

Method: Wash the animal liver, cut it into small pieces, put it into the pot together with rice, onion, ginger, oil and salt, add about 700 grams of water, cook it into porridge, and eat it when the liver is cooked and the porridge is thick.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver, nourishes blood and improves eyesight. Suitable for anemia, night blindness, blurred vision, etc. caused by weak Qi and blood.

4. Red Dates and Longan Porridge

Ingredients: 15 grams of longan flesh, 3-5 red dates, 100 grams of polished rice.

Method: Cook into porridge and drink while hot.

Efficacy: Nourishes the heart and spleen, nourishes and strengthens the body.

5. Carp donkey-hide gelatin porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of polished rice, 200 grams of carp, 20 grams of donkey-hide gelatin, 3 grams of green onion, 3 grams of ginger, 2 grams of cinnamon, and 1 gram of salt.

Method: Wash the glutinous rice, soak it in cold water for 3 hours, remove it and drain it. Scrape the scales and gills of the carp, remove the internal organs, wash and cut into pieces, put them into a pot, and add appropriate amount of cold water to boil the soup. Put glutinous rice into a pot, add about 1000 ml of cold water, bring to a boil over high heat, add donkey-hide gelatin, fish broth and cinnamon, and simmer over low heat. When the glutinous rice is cooked and the soup is thick, add chopped green onion, shredded ginger and salt to season, then serve.

Efficacy: Carp fat is mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which can effectively lower cholesterol and prevent and treat arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Therefore, eating more fish can help you live a healthy and long life. Carp tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. It has the effects of nourishing the stomach, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, promoting lactation, clearing away heat and detoxifying, stopping coughs and relieving gas. It is beneficial for various edema, swelling, abdominal distension, oliguria, jaundice, and milk obstruction. Japonica rice has the effects of nourishing the middle and replenishing qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and stopping sweating. It also has a good effect on symptoms such as spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and poor appetite.

6. Shouwu Japonica Rice Porridge

Ingredients: 60 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 3-5 red dates, 100 grams of polished rice.

Method: First, boil the prepared Polygonum multiflorum to obtain the thick juice, remove the residue, add red dates and glutinous rice to cook porridge, when it is ready, add appropriate amount of brown sugar and boil it for one or two more times. Take while hot. Polygonum multiflorum should not be used with iron utensils. When decocting soup or cooking porridge, a small pot or enamel pot should be used.

Efficacy: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, nourishes blood and regulates deficiency.

7. Ginger Juice and Job's Tears Porridge

Ingredients: 10 grams of dried ginger, 10 grams of mugwort, 30 grams of coix seed.

Preparation method: Boil the first two ingredients in water to extract the juice, cook the coix seeds into porridge until 80% cooked, add ginger and mugwort juice and cook until done.

Efficacy: It has the effects of warming the meridians, removing blood stasis, dispelling cold, removing dampness and moisturizing the skin. Suitable for dysmenorrhea caused by cold and dampness stagnation.

8. Red bean and lily porridge

Ingredients: 50g red beans, 50g lily, 100g rice.

Method: Soak the rice the night before and set aside. Wash the rice and lilies; add water to a pot and put in red beans, put it on the fire, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat, cook until slightly soft, add rice, cook over low heat until the red beans and rice are cooked, add lilies, and cook for another 2 minutes.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen, promotes diuresis, eliminates edema, moisturizes, and relieves cough.