What are the symptoms of people with blood stasis constitution?

People with blood stasis constitution mainly experience slow and unsmooth blood circulation. This is mostly because people with this constitution live in colder areas all year round or are always depressed. So what are the symptoms of blood stasis constitution?

Physical characteristics

Hair falls out easily;

The lips are dark in color, especially around the lip edges;

The tongue is bluish purple, or has purple spots. People with mild symptoms may have purple spots sometimes, but those with severe symptoms may have purple spots often, and the spots do not fade or disappear.

The eye sockets are dark, and the upper and lower eyelids are also purple-black;

The skin is dull and lusterless, rough, flaky, dry, and even scaly;

Fingernails or toenails become thicker and harder. In milder cases, the nail surface is uneven with white stripes or dots.

Fixed pain in the head, chest, abdomen, back, waist, limbs, etc., which occurs from time to time;

There is often a feeling of fullness in the stomach area that is difficult to relieve, and discomfort when pressing the area;

Women often suffer from dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.

Foods suitable for people with blood stasis constitution include lotus root, onion, mushroom, shiitake mushroom, hericium erinaceus, fungus, kelp, kudzu root, konjac, enoki mushroom, pig heart, pineapple, orange kernel, hawthorn, water chestnut, emblica, sea buckthorn, etc. Regular consumption of peach kernels, rapeseed, water chestnuts, and black soybeans can help promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. You can drink small amounts of wine regularly, eat more vinegar, hawthorn porridge and peanut porridge are also good, and you can also eat more meat soup.