Can I eat gourd during menstruation?

We seldom eat gourds in our daily life, because gourds are mainly grown in Shandong area, and we southerners rarely eat them. Gourd contains many vitamins and minerals. Female friends can eat some gourd appropriately during menstruation. Female friends require balanced nutrition during menstruation, so you should eat more vegetables and fruits during menstruation. I hope you understand.

Women are more vulnerable during their menstrual period and are easily affected by diseases, so women should pay attention to keeping warm during their menstrual period. They should also eat less raw and cold foods and some blood-activating foods during their menstrual period, as these will affect the normal menstrual period.

You can eat it. Gourd, also known as bottle gourd, spurge gourd, night-flowering gourd and big gourd. Gourd contains protein and a variety of trace elements, which help to enhance the body's immune function. At the same time, gourd is rich in vitamin C, which can promote the synthesis of antibodies and improve the body's antiviral ability. Two trypsin inhibitors can be isolated from gourd, which have an inhibitory effect on trypsin, thereby achieving a blood sugar-lowering effect.

Gourd contains a lot of carotene. After eating, it can prevent the synthesis of carcinogens in the human body, thereby reducing the formation of cancer cells and reducing the incidence of cancer in the human body, thus playing a role in preventing and fighting cancer. The water content of bottle gourd flowers is 95%, and they are low in calories. Apart from providing phosphorus, iron, vitamin A and vitamin C, they are low in most other nutrients.

Women should not eat raw or cold foods during menstruation: In daily life, some of the so-called cold foods in traditional Chinese medicine are raw and cold. Women should not eat them during menstruation, such as pears, bananas, water chestnuts, stone fungus, stone flower, and ground fungus. Most of these foods have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, nourishing yin and reducing fire. They are beneficial to the human body when consumed on a normal basis. However, you should try not to eat or eat less of these foods during the menstrual period, otherwise it will easily cause symptoms such as dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation.

Female friends should eat more nutritious vegetables and fruits during menstruation, so female friends can eat some vegetables such as gourd during menstruation. Not only will eating gourds during menstruation not affect the normal menstruation of female friends, but eating gourds will also help supplement the nutrients needed by the body.