Can I fast during my menstrual period?

Fasting is a popular health-preserving behavior nowadays, and its main purpose is to lose weight and detoxify. Many people use fasting to improve their health and regulate their bodies so that they can have a healthy body or a slim figure. The timing of fasting is very important. So, can women practice fasting during menstruation? The following is a detailed introduction to the relevant knowledge.

1. Can I fast during my menstrual period?

Since women usually practice fasting for weight loss and detoxification, it is a headache for women who are fasting to have their period. This is because women who practice fasting have usually gone through puberty. If they are fasting during their menstrual period, they should maintain a good mood and go with the flow.

Although no food is consumed during the fasting period, there is still energy flowing, which will increase the circulation of qi and blood in the body, causing excessive menstrual bleeding in some female friends. At this time, you should be careful not to do strenuous exercise, and try to think as little as possible, do a good job of meditation and adjust the energy, so that no adverse reactions will occur during the fasting period. If the methods and measures are not correct and the energy flow cannot be well controlled, adverse reactions will occur. You should also pay attention to adjusting the temperature, get enough rest, especially maintain a good mood, avoid depression, and absorb good energy according to the methods taught by the Bigu teacher to keep your body balanced.

2. How to fast during menstruation

1. Fasting method: Fasting for more than three days is considered fasting, and less than three days is considered dieting. Fasting for 3-7 days is considered short-term fasting, 8-14 days is considered medium-term fasting, and more than 15 days is considered long-term fasting.

2. For those who fast for the purpose of curing diseases, the longer the fasting time or the higher the level of fasting, the better. Those who are seriously ill or weak should practice fasting according to their ability and stop when necessary.

3. The Qigong practice of Qigong consists of four parts: sitting cross-legged, walking, standing and lying down.

3. What are the benefits of fasting for women?

1. Improve the nervous system

Make the thinking agile, enhance memory, deepen understanding, strengthen willpower, cultivate endurance, enhance self-confidence, make people full of courage, and suppress desires. It can further develop one's own spirituality, understand the truth of nature, and inspire people to have another understanding of the world.

3. Lowers blood pressure

During the fasting period, the blood pressure of patients with hypertension will drop significantly, while the blood pressure of some patients with hypotension will rise. However, vision, hearing and touch will become sharper, and memory and association will be enhanced. The number of white blood cells does not change in the first week of fasting, but begins to increase on the 7th day, and increases rapidly from the 11th day, increasing by 1.57 times or more per day, indicating that fasting can improve the body's immunity. During the fasting period, some people will release a unique odor all over their bodies, and even the exhaled gas has a odor. This is because metabolic waste and toxic substances in the body are excreted through the skin.

4. Clean the tongue coating

In the early stage of fasting, the stickiness in the mouth increases. When looking at the tongue in the mirror, you will see yellow tongue coating, and some people even have black tongue coating. It rarely clears within 10 days. If you continue fasting, the tongue coating will become clear, indicating that toxins are being discharged and the body and mind are purified.

5. Diuretic and laxative

The frequency of bowel movements decreases during the fasting period, and generally a bowel movement occurs within the first 1-4 days. This type of stool is called old stool, and the color of old stool is generally black, dark green, or brown, and is muddy (there are a few exceptions). This is a normal phenomenon.