What to do if menstrual bleeding continues

Continuous menstrual bleeding, that is, excessive menstrual bleeding, is a problem that many women have. Excessive menstrual blood flow will affect a person's physical and mental state, so timely adjustment is needed. Patients with heavy menstrual bleeding can be divided into blood heat type, blood deficiency type, spleen deficiency type, and blood stasis type according to the different causes. Different patients require different treatments.

1. Patients with blood heat

Symptoms include heavy bleeding, bright red color, small blood clots, more or less bleeding, continuous bleeding, accompanied by headache, bitter taste in the mouth, irritability, red lips and face, burning urine, dry stool, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

The therapeutic recipe is to stew lean meat with corn silk: take 30 grams of corn silk, 120 grams of lean meat, an appropriate amount of refined salt, a little MSG, cut the lean meat into pieces, put it into a ceramic pot together with the corn silk, add 500 ml of water, put it in a steamer, cover it and steam it until the meat is cooked, add refined salt and MSG, take it while hot, once a day.

2. Patients with blood deficiency

Symptoms include excessive or unclear menstrual flow, light color without clots, dizziness and palpitations, pale or sallow complexion, shortness of breath and laziness to speak, fatigue and weight loss, pale tongue, thin white fur, and a thin and weak pulse or a weak pulse when pressed hard.

The dietary therapy recipe is to stew chicken with cuttlefish bones: take 30 grams of cuttlefish bones, 30 grams of angelica, 100 grams of chicken, and appropriate amounts of fine salt and MSG. Dice the chicken, slice the angelica, and crush the cuttlefish bones. Put them into a ceramic pot, add 500 ml of water and appropriate amount of fine salt, and steam them in a steamer. Eat once a day. Generally, it will be effective after 3-5 times.

3. Patients with spleen deficiency

Symptoms include untimely arrival of menstrual blood, metrorrhagia followed by heavy bleeding, light-colored and thin blood, shortness of breath, fatigue, pale complexion, poor appetite, pale tongue, thin white fur, and weak pulse.

The therapeutic recipe is to stew lotus seeds with dried lychees: take 20 dried lychees and 60 grams of lotus seeds. Remove the shells and cores of the dried lychees and the cores of the lotus seeds. Wash them and put them in a ceramic jar with 500 ml of water. Steam them in a steamer over medium heat and then take them. It usually takes 3-7 times to take effect.

4. Blood stasis type

The symptoms are irregular menstrual bleeding, sometimes it comes and goes, or it is not clean, or it stops for a long time and then suddenly starts to flow, followed by continuous bleeding, purple and black in color with blood clots, lower abdominal pain, dark purple tongue, thin white tongue coating, and sluggish pulse.

The dietary therapy recipe can use 50-60 grams of motherwort, 15 grams of cyperus rotundus, and 2 eggs. Add appropriate amount of water and cook together. After the eggs are cooked, peel them and cook for a while. Remove the residue, eat the eggs and drink the soup, once a day, for 4-5 days.