Can I eat crabapple during menstruation?

Female friends will experience excessive bleeding during menstruation. Many female friends feel very scared at this time, because excessive bleeding will definitely make their body weak. If the body is weak, the resistance and immunity will be reduced, which can easily lead to disease. So what should we do? In fact, female friends during menstruation can eat more iron-containing foods in their diet to replenish blood.

Many foods are rich in iron, and iron is present in vegetables and fruits. So, as a kind of fruit, can crabapple be eaten during menstruation? Does crabapple have any effect on menstrual symptoms?

Crabapple, formerly known as red thick shell (Latin name: Prunus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh.), also known as crabapple wood, crabapple fruit, etc., belongs to the order Parietales, Rosaceae tree, 5-12 meters high; the bark is thick, gray-brown or dark brown, and the young branches have longitudinal stripes.

The leaves are thick leathery, broadly elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rarely oblong. The raceme or panicle is nearly terminal, with 7-11 flowers; the flowers are bisexual, white, and slightly fragrant; the calyx has 4 lobes, the outer 2 are smaller and nearly round; the petals are 4, oblanceolate; the ovary is nearly spherical, and the stigma is shield-shaped.

The fruit is spherical and yellow when ripe. The flowering period is from March to June, and the fruiting period is from September to November.

It is native to Hainan and Taiwan, and grows wild or cultivated in hilly open areas and coastal sandy wastelands at an altitude of 60-100 (-200) meters.

This species is an important garden shade tree in South China, and its roots, leaves and seeds can be used as medicine. The fruit is edible.

The crabapple blossoms are fiery red.

It tastes sour and astringent, and the ripe crabapple fruit has a sweet or tasteless texture. It is grown in Hebei and other places. Its color is white with a hint of red, and is often used to describe a woman's face as rosy as a crabapple.

In addition to being eaten raw, the fruit can be used to make wine, candied fruit, jam, fruit vinegar, fruit wine, and fruit leather. The eight-angled crabapple fruit can also be cut and dried into dried crabapple with a moisture content of 30%. The storage period can be up to 3 years, and it can be processed into a snack food. Drinking dried crabapple with water and adding sucrose has a sweet and sour taste, and contains a strong aroma of fresh crabapple. It can also cool down the body, relieve heat, strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite, and has excellent therapeutic and health-care effects.

Nutritional value: Begonia contains a large amount of nutrients, such as sugars, multiple vitamins, organic acids, etc., which can supplement the nutrients needed by the human body, improve body functions, and enhance resistance to disease.

1. Promoting the production of body fluids and quenching thirst: Begonia contains sugars, multiple vitamins and organic acids, which can help replenish the intracellular fluid of the human body, thus having the effect of promoting the production of body fluids and quenching thirst;

2. Strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite: Begonia fruit is rich in vitamins, organic acids and amino acids, which can help the gastrointestinal tract digest food, so it can be used to treat indigestion, food accumulation and abdominal distension.

3. Astringent and dysentery-stopping: Begonia tastes sweet and slightly sour. Sweetness can relieve the middle part, and sourness can astringe. It has the functions of astringing and stopping diarrhea, and can treat diarrhea, dysentery, loose stools and other symptoms;

4. Nutritional supplement: Begonia contains a large amount of nutrients necessary for the human body, such as sugars, multiple vitamins, organic acids, etc., which can provide nutrients to the human body and improve the body's immunity.

Above, we introduced the symptoms of heavy bleeding during menstruation in female friends. These symptoms are normal, but if you are afraid of physical weakness, we can supplement some iron. Although the crabapple mentioned above is not a good choice for blood tonic, it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, so it can be eaten during menstruation.