Is drinking ginger and brown sugar water effective for dysmenorrhea?

It is okay to drink ginger and brown sugar water during dysmenorrhea, because it can warm the body and increase energy, and it can speed up blood circulation and help discharge menstrual blood quickly. It is especially suitable for women with menstrual disorders and lower abdominal pain.

1. First of all, drinking hot brown sugar water can warm the body, increase energy, activate qi and blood, speed up blood circulation, and make menstruation smoother. If female friends have problems with menstrual disorders and lower abdominal distension and pain, they may wish to try this method; you can also add some ginger juice to cook together to replenish qi, blood and liver (according to the Chinese medicine point of view, the uterus is along the liver meridian), and the effect of warming the tendons and dredge the meridians will be better.

2. However, brown sugar is hot in nature and can easily cause internal heat. It can increase the heat in the body and relieve the symptoms of dysmenorrhea caused by cold and dampness, blood deficiency, and qi and blood stasis in women with weak constitution. On the contrary, if your constitution is of fire nature, that is, you have heavy internal heat and internal fire rising, taking brown sugar water with strong dryness is like adding fuel to the fire. Your body cannot withstand the excessive internal fire, so it releases the internal heat through bleeding, which will cause excessive bleeding.

3. Secondly, brown sugar water has a certain effect on regulating dysmenorrhea and has a certain effect on secondary dysmenorrhea. It is more suitable for women recovering from postpartum dysmenorrhea to replenish blood and qi. It can help postpartum women relieve uterine contractions, but it is not very useful for women during menstruation. Sometimes, eating too much sweets will increase their anxiety. Therefore, to prevent dysmenorrhea, you need to pay more attention to menstrual hygiene, avoid catching cold during menstruation, and avoid eating spicy and irritating foods during menstruation.

4. Ginger, jujube and brown sugar soup

Ingredients: 30g each of brown sugar and jujube, 10g of dried ginger

Preparation method: Wash the dried ginger and jujube, remove the core of the jujube, cut the dried ginger into slices, and put all three into a pot and boil.

How to take: It is best to eat some dates when taking the soup.

Indications: Women with vomiting and cold dysmenorrhea.