Drinking Chinese medicine makes menstrual color darker

When taking Chinese medicine to regulate the body, women's menstrual blood may turn black. Generally speaking, this is a normal reaction to the medication. If it is for the treatment of other diseases, don't worry and continue to take the medication. However, if it is for the treatment of irregular menstruation, the medication should be adjusted under the guidance of a doctor. Irregular menstruation is a relatively common disease and needs to be strengthened in time.

Drinking Chinese medicine makes menstrual color darker

This is a normal reaction after taking the medicine. If it is medicine to treat other diseases, there is no need to worry about menstruation. If it is medicine to treat other diseases, it is recommended to continue taking the medicine. If it is a medication for treating menstruation, it is recommended to adjust the medication.

What to eat to treat irregular menstruation

What should you eat to regulate irregular menstruation? Food during menstruation should be light, easy to digest and nutritious. For women with irregular menstruation, they can eat some menstruation-regulating medicinal foods during their menstrual period, such as motherwort juice porridge, liver-clearing and menstruation-regulating soup, cold-mixed amaranth, and fermented black bean and mutton soup.

1. Motherwort juice porridge

Prepare 10 grams of fresh motherwort juice, 40 grams each of fresh Rehmannia juice and fresh lotus root juice, appropriate amounts of ginger juice and honey, and 100 grams of rice. Cook rice into porridge. When the rice is cooked, add the above-mentioned medicinal juices and honey and cook it into a thin porridge.

Main effects: nourishing yin and blood, regulating menstruation and removing blood stasis, quenching thirst and relieving restlessness. It is suitable for women with irregular menstruation, functional uterine bleeding, postpartum blood loss, lochia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, etc. It is better to use a sand pot instead of an iron pot. It is not recommended for patients with spleen deficiency and diarrhea. Do not add onions or leeks when consuming this medicinal food.

2. Qinggan Tiaojing Decoction

Prepare 12 grams of Uncaria rhynchophylla, 10 grams of fried Cortex Moutan, 9 grams of fried Gardenia, 12 grams each of red and white Peony Root, 10 grams of charred Crataegus pinnatifida, 10 grams of Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, 6 grams of fried Pollen Typhae (wrapped and decocted), 12 grams of fried Dipsacus asper, 10 grams of Poria, 5 grams of fried Bupleurum, and 15 grams of Leonurus japonicus.

Main effects: It can clear the liver and relieve depression, remove blood stasis and regulate menstruation. It can treat early menstruation, excessive menstrual flow, premenstrual breast pain, and excessive blood clots during menstruation. This prescription must be taken during menstruation to be more effective.

3. Cold-mixed Malantou

Prepare 200 grams of fresh Amaranthus, 2 pieces of braised dried tofu, and appropriate amounts of MSG, sugar, salt, and sesame oil. Wash and clean the Amaranth, blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute, take it out and let it cool, then cut it into small pieces. Then chop the braised dried tofu into small pieces and mix it with the minced amaranth. Add sugar, salt, MSG, drizzle with sesame oil, mix well and it’s done. Serve as a side dish and eat as you like.

Main effects: This prescription can clear away heat and cool blood. It is suitable for irregular menstruation, which is of blood heat type, with early menstruation, heavy menstruation, red and sticky menstruation, irritability, thirst, yellow tongue coating, and rapid pulse.

4. Mutton Soup with Fermented Black Beans

Prepare 500 grams of fermented black beans, 100 grams of mutton, 15 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt. Put the first three ingredients in a casserole and cook until they are well-cooked, then add salt to taste. Start taking the medicine 1 week before each menstruation and continue for 1 week.

Main effects: This prescription warms the meridians and dispels cold, nourishes blood and regulates menstruation. It is suitable for irregular menstruation, which is of cold blood type, late menstruation, scanty and dark menstruation, cold pain and heaviness in the lower abdomen, white tongue coating, etc.