What should I eat less during my period to increase my menstrual flow?

Nowadays, many women have the problem of small menstrual flow, which is often caused by abnormal hormone secretion, mental stress, ovarian dysfunction, endometrial damage (such as artificial abortion), inflammation and other reasons. What should you eat less during your period to increase your menstrual flow? The best way is to use dietary supplements. Eat more foods that can nourish the body or foods that can be used as medicine or food. Foods like red dates, angelica, mutton, etc. can help replenish blood and qi, and have the effect of increasing menstrual flow.

Beneficial Foods

1. Staple foods and beans can be wheat, millet, corn, purple glutinous rice, and soy products.

2. Meat, eggs and milk can include pork, pig skin, beef, mutton, animal offal, rabbit meat, chicken, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products, etc.

3. Vegetables include rapeseed, Chinese cabbage, cabbage, spinach, amaranth, celery, lotus root, mustard greens, green garlic, cauliflower, bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, etc.

4. For fruits, you can choose warm fruits such as lychee, kumquat, pomegranate, bayberry, peach, cherry, tangerine, orange, plum, papaya, or neutral fruits such as apple, lemon, jujube, longan, grape, coconut, pineapple, etc. But be careful not to eat too much raw or cold fruits.

Nourishing soup

Four recipes for regulating menstruation

Black Fungus and Red Date Soup

Ingredients: 30 grams of black fungus, 20 red dates.

Method: Wash the black fungus and red dates. Remove the core of the red dates, add water to boil the two ingredients, remove the residue and drink.

Efficacy: It has the effects of tonifying the middle and replenishing Qi, nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and beautifying the skin. Suitable for people with anemia and weak body during menstruation.

Lotus seed and yam black chicken soup

Ingredients: 200 grams of black chicken, 45 grams of fresh mushrooms, 35 grams of yam, 10 lotus seeds, a little wolfberry, 3 grams of salt, 2 grams each of chopped green onion and ginger slices.

Method: Wash the black chicken, cut into pieces and blanch. Wash and slice the fresh mushrooms. Peel the yam, wash and cut into pieces. Wash lotus seeds and wolfberries separately and set aside. Put a pot on the fire, pour in appropriate amount of water, add chopped green onion, ginger slices, black chicken, fresh mushrooms, yam, lotus seeds, and wolfberry and cook until cooked, then add salt.

Efficacy: Lotus seeds can strengthen the heart and calm the mind, nourish and replenish the body, stop nocturnal emission and astringent semen; yam has the effect of strengthening the body, nourishing the kidneys and replenishing the essence; chicken can replenish the body, improve physiological functions, delay aging, and strengthen muscles and bones. This soup is suitable for people with irregular menstruation.

Stewed squid with safflower

Ingredients: 9 grams of aconite, 6 grams of safflower, 200 grams of squid, 5 grams each of ginger, scallion and salt, and 10 ml of Shaoxing wine.

practice:

1. Wash aconite and safflower; wash the squid and cut into pieces; wash and slice the ginger; wash and cut the green onion into sections.

2. Place the squid in a steaming pot, add salt, Shaoxing wine, ginger slices, scallion segments, aconite and safflower, and pour in 150 ml of water.

3. Place the steaming basin in the steamer and steam over high heat for 35 minutes.

Efficacy: This product can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is suitable for blood stasis type angina pectoris, dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation and other symptoms.

Ginger, Mugwort and Job's tears porridge

Ingredients: 10 grams of dried ginger, 10 grams of mugwort, 30 grams of coix seed.

practice:

1. Add appropriate amount of water to dried ginger and mugwort and boil them together.

2. Then separate the residue and take out the juice for later use.

3. Add coix seeds to rice and cook porridge.

4. When it is 80% cooked, add the separated juice into the porridge and cook together. It is ready to eat.

Efficacy: Ginger, wormwood and coix seed porridge has the effects of removing blood stasis, dispersing cold and removing dampness. It is suitable for dysmenorrhea caused by cold and dampness stagnation.