Menstrual cramps are a real pain for women, and when it gets cold and painful, it’s even more agonizing. How to manage dysmenorrhea in winter? Let’s take a look at the advice of Chinese medicine practitioners!
Chinese medicine theory that, menstrual blood “when hot, line, when cold, condensation”, will cause menstrual pain is the body of menstrual blood stagnation, blood clots can not be discharged smoothly, most of the qi and blood run poorly due to. Chinese medicine pointed out that women with menstrual pain are mostly cold, and the winter weather is cold, easy to aggravate menstrual cramps. In addition, dysmenorrhea may also be caused by heredity or bad lifestyle habits, such as smoking, drinking alcohol, and being overweight.
People who are prone to dysmenorrhea are categorized into two types of constitution:
1. Yang deficiency constitution: This type of person has a weak constitution and is prone to cold hands and feet, and the body is also extraordinarily afraid of cold. It is recommended to eat more food with hotter properties on weekdays, such as beef, mutton, ginger and angelica. And watermelon, cold drinks, pears and other attributes of the cooler food, try not to eat more.
2. Blood stasis constitution: This type of people will have darker skin color and lip color, purple tongue color, rough skin, often bleeding when brushing teeth, sometimes bruises will appear on the skin, mood is also more irritable, menstrual blood color is dark, and there are blood clots. It is recommended to eat more foods that can promote qi and blood circulation, relieve the liver and depression, such as kumquats, hawthorn, roses, black beans, chuanxiong, etc., and do not eat too much grease.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners suggest that to alleviate menstrual pain, you can moderately drink some tea, such as sour plum soup with Chinese medicine ingredients, which includes plums, hawthorn, licorice, Luo Shen Hua, etc., and contains a lot of micronutrients needed by the human body, such as amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids, dietary fiber and so on. Chinese medicine believes that drinking sour plum soup is a good drink for health care and strengthening the body. Especially for girls who have difficulty in restraining from drinking cold drinks, this time you can drink some sour plum soup moderately, which helps to relieve abdominal discomfort during menstruation. The hawthorn in sour plum soup, sour and warm, is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine to strengthen the spleen and stomach, blood stasis herbs, if belongs to the blood stasis quality of the body, eat some hawthorn, can also help relieve menstrual discomfort, hawthorn attributes of warmer, able to move qi to activate the blood to slow down the efficacy of menstrual pain, but also able to ease the liver to relieve depression.
Ease menstrual cramps three do not eat:
1. Don’t eat cold food: If you usually consume too many fruits and vegetables with cold attributes, including watermelon, pear, kiwi fruit, aloe vera, radish, winter melon, tomato, etc., or love to drink cold beverages, it is easy to lead to cold dampness and stagnation type of menstrual pain, and it is recommended that you try to avoid eating these cold fruits and vegetables when you are in your physiological period.
2. Do not eat acidic food: acidic food has astringent effect, easy to let the blood coagulation, can not be discharged out of the body smoothly, so in the physiological period, it is best not to eat pickles, plums, poppies, Chelsea, mangoes, lemons and so on.
3. Do not eat spicy food: Eating stimulating food during menstruation will make the uterine muscles contract excessively, resulting in more severe menstrual cramps. So you should avoid eating stimulating foods such as chili, pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, etc. during menstruation.
