What is the cause of excessive menstrual blood stasis?

Many people suffer from uterine cold during menstruation, which leads to the inability to expel all the blood stasis in the uterine cavity during the menstrual period. This can cause some complications and even blood stasis accumulation. Friends with too much menstrual blood stasis can drink more brown sugar or brown sugar plus ginger, and prepare red bean and yam soup, which can eliminate blood stasis and promote blood circulation in the uterus.

1 What to eat during menstruation to eliminate blood stasis - brown sugar

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that brown sugar is warm in nature, sweet in taste, and enters the spleen meridian. Granulated sugar has the effects of harmonizing the spleen and liver, replenishing blood, activating blood circulation, clearing blood stasis, and excreting lochia. Drinking brown sugar water during menstruation can help eliminate toxins and blood stasis, warm the body, increase energy, activate qi and blood, speed up blood circulation, and make menstruation smoother. If you feel weak and have a bad complexion after menstruation, you can drink a cup of brown sugar water with a concentration of about 20% before lunch every day. If the discomfort symptoms are more severe, you can drink another glass before dinner. Continuing for a week will effectively improve the symptoms.

Recommended diet recipe: brown sugar ginger water

1. Peel the ginger skin with your fingernails, cut it into thin slices, cut it into thin strips, and then chop it into fine pieces for later use.

2. Pour boiling water into the pot, add minced ginger after boiling, cook for a while and then add appropriate amount of brown sugar. The amount of water should be adjusted accordingly. Too much will make it too sweet, and too little will make it lose its flavor.

3. After adding brown sugar, continue to cook over low heat for about 10 minutes, then pour into a bowl and drink while it is hot. Don't wait until it cools down before drinking it, as the effect will be much worse.

2 What to eat during menstruation to eliminate blood stasis - red beans. When menstruation comes, the plasma protein, iron, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. in the blood are lost due to blood loss (especially those with heavy menstrual flow). At this time, if you can drink a bowl of red bean paste, red bean soup or red bean porridge, it will not only beautify the skin but also replenish the blood. It is indeed an essential food for women to replenish blood during menstruation.

Recommended diet recipe: Red bean and yam soup

1. Prepare the ingredients: 30 grams of red beans, 200 grams of yam, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

2. Wash the red beans and soak them in water for 1 night. Wash the yam, peel it and cut it into small pieces for later use.

3. Add appropriate amount of water to a hot pot, put in red beans and yam pieces, and after the water boils, turn to low heat and simmer until the red beans become soft, then add rock sugar to taste.

3 What to eat during menstruation to eliminate blood stasis - pig blood. The protein in pig blood can produce a disinfectant and intestines lubricating substance after being decomposed by gastric acid. This substance can react biochemically with dust and harmful metal particles that enter the human body, and then remove these harmful substances from the body through excretion. It can be called the "scavenger" of human waste. Women who often eat pig blood can effectively replenish the iron consumed in the body and prevent the occurrence of iron deficiency anemia.

Recommended diet recipe: leek and pig blood

1. Wash and clean the leeks, cut into sections, wash the blood tofu and cut into pieces.

2. Pour vegetable oil into a wok and heat it to 70% hot, sprinkle in pepper powder and stir-fry until fragrant.

3. Pour in the blood tofu and stir well, add appropriate amount of water and simmer for 8 minutes, add the leek segments and serve the soup, then add salt and chicken essence to taste.