Can I eat beans during my period?

In our lives, soy products are indispensable to us. They can also help the human body replenish a large amount of isoflavones and are super nutritious foods. So can women eat beans during menstruation? During the entire menstrual period, you still have to pay attention to your diet in order to successfully get through the menstrual period. Below we analyze various knowledge about soybeans for everyone, so that we can understand whether we can eat them during menstruation and increase our self-health knowledge.

Modern medical research believes that soybeans do not contain cholesterol and can reduce cholesterol in the human body, reduce the occurrence of arteriosclerosis, and prevent heart disease. Soybeans also contain a substance that inhibits pancreatic enzymes, which has a certain effect on diabetes. Therefore, soybeans are recommended by nutritionists as an ideal health product for preventing and treating coronary heart disease, hypertension, atherosclerosis and other diseases. The phospholipids contained in soybeans are an important part of the composition of brain cells. Eating soybeans regularly has an important effect on increasing and improving brain skills.

Medical science believes that eating soybeans can help people grow skin, improve complexion, replenish essence, increase strength, and stimulate appetite. It is a tonic food suitable for the weak, with the effects of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, strengthening the body and calming the mind, promoting bowel movement, and moistening dryness and eliminating water.

Soybeans are sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and enter the spleen and large intestine meridians. They have the effects of strengthening the spleen and relieving fullness, moistening dryness and eliminating water, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and invigorating qi. They are mainly used to treat malnutrition, diarrhea, abdominal distension and emaciation, pregnancy poisoning, sores, carbuncles, swelling and toxins, and traumatic bleeding. Soybeans can also be antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and are effective for pharyngitis, conjunctivitis, stomatitis, bacillary dysentery, and enteritis.

However, many women experience some uncomfortable symptoms in the few days before their period (premenstrual period), such as depression, anxiety, tension, insomnia, irritability, restlessness, fatigue, etc. It is generally believed that this is related to the imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body.

At this time, female friends should still choose some qi-boosting foods to avoid physical discomfort during menstruation, and try to eat light food. If any discomfort occurs, you can massage your abdomen, apply a hot water bag, etc. to reduce various menstrual discomfort symptoms. Bean foods should be chosen in moderation.