What can I eat to relieve menstrual pain?

Many female friends are afraid of having abdominal pain during menstruation. In fact, this abdominal pain can be relieved by some food. There are great benefits to using diet therapy to regulate the body, because the regulation is carried out from the inside out.

What to eat when you have menstrual pain?

When menstruation comes, some blood is lost. The main components of blood are plasma protein, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium and other inorganic salts. This means that a portion of protein and inorganic salts are lost every time menstruation comes. Therefore, in principle, within 1-5 days after the menstruation is over, nutrients such as protein, minerals and some blood tonics should be supplemented.

During this period, you can choose foods and medicines that are both good for the skin and beautiful and have the effect of nourishing blood and activating blood circulation, such as milk, eggs, quail eggs, beef, mutton, pig pancreas, water chestnut, spinach, cherry, longan meat, lychee meat, carrots, apples, angelica, safflower, peach blossom, cooked rehmannia, and polygonatum.

During the menstrual period, it is better to eat sour food first

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that: "Menstrual fluid comes from the kidneys", so regulating menstruation should focus on benefiting the innate true yin, replenishing essence and nourishing blood, so as to make both essence and blood prosperous. In terms of the nature and flavor of Chinese medicine, "sour and sweet can nourish yin", that is, sour and sweet taste can nourish yin and blood, and help regulate menstruation. Therefore, eating more sour and kidney-tonifying foods during women's menstruation is more beneficial to the female body.

Sour and yin-nourishing foods such as red dates, hawthorn, black plum, black fungus, black sesame, and "black foods that enter the kidney" are all edible. Ginger, date and brown sugar water, hawthorn, cinnamon and brown sugar soup, and rose drink all have obvious effects on improving menstrual abdominal pain.