Can I eat donkey-hide gelatin during menstruation? What are the effects?

Donkey-hide gelatin is a common health product, and it has many benefits for women's health. Donkey-hide gelatin has the effect of nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, so it is not suitable for consumption during menstruation. Friends who want to supplement their body nutrition may wish to consume an appropriate amount of donkey-hide gelatin after menstruation.

1. Donkey-hide gelatin is a holy medicine for replenishing blood and stopping bleeding. It has a good restorative and regulating effect on women who need symptomatic treatment for irregular menstruation caused by blood deficiency. Eating donkey-hide gelatin can promote the production of red blood cells and hemoglobin in the blood (the effect is better than iron supplements). Since the main effect of donkey-hide gelatin is to replenish blood, it is suitable for people with blood deficiency. Therefore, it is most suitable for women with withered complexion and bloodless nails and lips when they are suffering from blood deficiency.

2. Many women believe that they should eat something warm during menstruation, such as red dates and donkey-hide gelatin to replenish blood. In fact, this is a very general and wrong view.

3. Experts point out that although donkey-hide gelatin has a very good blood-replenishing effect, taking it during menstruation will cause fluctuations in menstruation, such as reduced menstrual volume and incomplete menstruation. Normal unmarried women who took donkey-hide gelatin for the first time during their non-menstrual period experienced delayed menstruation.

4. The reason why you can’t eat donkey-hide gelatin during menstruation: Because donkey-hide gelatin not only has the effect of nourishing blood but also has the effect of stopping bleeding, so women should not eat donkey-hide gelatin in the early stage of menstruation.

Dietary taboos for women before and after menstruation:

Before menstruation: Harmonize Qi and blood in time, do not eat too hot food, you can take some maple nut, ribs, yam (to strengthen the spleen and stomach), angelica, lotus root (to supplement iron), kelp (to eliminate phlegm, promote diuresis, and relieve constipation and detoxification).

During menstruation: Yin blood flows down and Yang Qi is strong. It is not suitable to eat things with hot Yang Qi, such as red dates, donkey-hide gelatin, etc. After menstruation: You need to nourish yin and blood to replenish the previously lost qi and blood. You can make some nourishing soups, such as black-bone chicken with wolfberry, longan and red date tea, etc. You can also eat pork ribs, yam, and lotus root. Of course, it is best to take traditional Chinese medicine that nourishes yin, qi and blood. At the same time, you can also eat more "black" foods during this period, such as black fungus, black beans, black fish, and loach.