How to regulate scanty menstruation? Chinese medicine teaches you some dietary treatments

Menstruation is something that women experience once a month, so it was also called "monthly affairs" in the past. Under normal circumstances, menstruation comes at a regular time, both in terms of timing and amount. When menstruation is irregular, problems may occur, such as scanty menstrual flow. Oligomenorrhea refers to a period with less menstrual volume than normal, which is mostly caused by blood deficiency, qi stagnation, blood stasis, cold stagnation in the blood, phlegm obstruction and other reasons.

1: Ingredients: 1 black-bone chicken, 9 pieces of angelica, 9 grams of poria, and 9 pieces of astragalus. Method: Clean the black-bone chicken and remove the dirt. Put angelica, poria and astragalus into the chicken's stomach and sew it up with thread. Cook it in a casserole. Then filter out the residue and add appropriate amount of seasoning. Eat the meat and drink the soup. Divide one chicken into 2 to 3 servings, eat once a day before menstruation for 3 consecutive days. Efficacy: Black-bone chicken soup can strengthen the spleen and nourish the heart, replenish qi and nourish blood. It is suitable for menstrual volume, thin menstrual blood, dizziness, pale red tongue, sallow complexion, palpitations, empty lower abdomen and thin pulse caused by insufficient qi and blood.

1: Ingredients: 1 old hen, 15 grams of mugwort leaves. Method: Clean the hen, cut it into pieces, and cook it with mugwort leaves into soup. Divide the prepared hen and mugwort leaves soup into 2 to 3 times for consumption, and take 2 to 3 doses continuously during menstruation. Efficacy: It can replenish qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and calm the mind. It is suitable for heavy menstruation, insomnia, cold pain in the lower abdomen, palpitations, pale tongue and thin pulse due to physical weakness and inability to retain blood.

1: 10 grams of angelica, 3 dates, and 1 egg in shell, cook together for 15-20 minutes. Drinking the soup and eating the egg can nourish blood, invigorate blood circulation, strengthen the spleen, replenish qi, and produce blood. If you don’t feel hot, you can eat it once a day or every other day. If you feel a sore throat after eating, you can remove the seeds of the dates and add some Ophiopogon japonicus, lotus seeds, and lilies. They can nourish yin and calm the mind, prevent dryness and heat, and also help with sleep.

1: Ingredients: 6g Rehmannia root, 10g Leonurus japonicus, 200ml rice wine. Method: Pour rice wine into a porcelain bottle, add raw earth and motherwort, steam in a pot for about 20 minutes, take 50 ml at a time, twice a day. Efficacy: It can promote blood circulation and stop bleeding. It is suitable for heavy menstruation, dark color, blood clots, lower abdominal pain, purple stones or ecchymosis caused by blood stasis.

1: Ingredients: 500g mutton, 15g angelica, 10g dried ginger, 15g raw earth each. Method: Clean the mutton, cut it into pieces, put it into a casserole, add angelica, dried ginger, raw earth, soy sauce, rice wine, water, salt and sugar, and stew it until the mutton is tender before serving. Efficacy: It can warm the middle, replenish deficiency, invigorate qi and regulate blood. It is suitable for patients with heavy menstrual flow, light-colored and weak menstruation, fatigue and shortness of breath, dull complexion, pale tongue and weak pulse caused by qi deficiency.

1: Ingredients: 1000g lamb leg, 50g wolfberry, and appropriate seasoning. Method: Boil the mutton thoroughly in boiling water, then put it in cold water to wash off the blood foam and cut it into cubes. Add proper amount of oil to the pot and heat it, then put the chopped mutton into the pot, boil water, stir-fry ginger slices, then add cooking wine to the pot, stir-fry, add wolfberry and broth, salt, and green onion, and remove the floating foam. Change to low heat and simmer for 1 to 1.5 hours. After the mutton is tender, remove the green onion and ginger, and add MSG. Efficacy: It can nourish the kidney and blood. It is suitable for menstruation with scanty volume, unclear dripping, dark red, light red, thin texture, cold abdomen, frequent urination at night, sore waist and knees, and slow pulse caused by kidney yang deficiency.

"Innate", nourishing liver blood is very important for women. Insufficient liver blood will cause less menstrual flow, rough skin, dark spots and acne. Many women want to know what to eat to nourish liver blood. In fact, the best way to nourish liver blood is not food, but sleep. You should fall asleep before 11 pm at the latest to nourish liver blood.