Can I eat Amaranth during my period?

As a woman, there will be a few days every month when you feel irritable. Some women will even have stomach pain. Even if you feel uncomfortable during these days, you still have to go to work, do housework and take care of children. Therefore, women must be kind to themselves, and pay attention to taking care of themselves so that they can have a healthy body. Women should stay away from cold and irritating things during menstruation.

Amaranth is a herb that has the effect of improving eyesight and promoting bowel movements. Women during menstruation can eat Amaranth. Amaranth can help women replenish qi and blood. It is more suitable for women with weak kidneys, spleen and stomach, and physical constitution. It can regulate the body very well.

During menstruation, you can also cook brown sugar with water chestnuts, lotus seeds and red dates. Water chestnuts have the effect of nourishing the spleen and replenishing qi, red dates have the effect of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, lotus seeds have the effect of clearing the heart fire, and brown sugar can relieve menstrual pain. Eating these together can not only have the effect of nourishing qi and blood, but also relieve menstrual mental tension, stomach pain and other symptoms. During menstruation, when qi and blood deficiency is caused by blood loss, eating foods that replenish qi and blood can have a better effect and can also improve physical discomfort such as dizziness.

Amaranth fruit function

Clears the liver, improves eyesight, and facilitates bowel movements. It is used to treat amblyopia, blurred vision, chyle and hematuria, and difficulty in defecation and urination.

① "Ben Jing": "It cures amblyopia, improves eyesight, removes evil, promotes urination and defecation, and removes cold and heat."

② "Bie Lu": "It is used to treat cataracts and kill roundworms."

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Yinjing."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is used to treat cataract, black spots on the eyes, liver wind and guest heat, etc."

⑤ "Collection of Common Folk Herbal Medicines": "Treats colds and coughs."

Amaranth in daily life [Usage and dosage]

For internal use: decoct in water, 2-3 qian; or grind into powder.

【Additional prescription】

①To treat blurred vision and cataracts: stew Amaranth seeds, Celosia seeds, and Cicadae fungi with pork liver.

(Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

②To treat erythema: stew amaranth seeds, red cockscomb and red silk seeds with meat. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

③Treat difficulty in urination and defecation: half a liang of Amaranth seed powder. Divide into two doses and take with freshly drawn water. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④Treat chyluria and hematuria: Fry red amaranth seeds until they bloom, then grind into fine powder. Take three grams each time with sugar water, three times a day. After taking it several times, if the urine is still turbid, you can use one or two liang of Potentilla fragrans and boil it in water. (Xuzhou's "Selected New Medical Methods of Single Prescriptions")

Harvesting and storage: Harvest the above-ground parts in autumn, rub them to remove the seeds after drying, winnow them, and dry them in the sun.

However, not everyone can eat Amaranth. Because Amaranth has astringent effects, the following groups of people should not eat Amaranth during menstruation, such as women who often suffer from constipation and pregnant women after giving birth. For special reasons, if these people eat Amaranth, it will affect their normal life, so everyone should also consider their own physical condition when eating Amaranth.