There is a good diet to treat dysmenorrhea

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dysmenorrhea in women is mostly caused by liver and kidney deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, stagnation of cold evil, and qi stagnation and blood stasis. Treatment should be based on the principles of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, nourishing the liver and kidney, promoting blood circulation and dispelling cold, regulating qi and removing blood stasis. When using traditional Chinese medicine for treatment, the following dietary therapy should be used in combination.

1. Sunflower and brown sugar soup

Ingredients: 60g sunflower disc, 30g brown sugar

Method: Put sunflower seeds and brown sugar into a pot, add water and boil for 30 minutes before drinking.

Dosage: Patients start taking the medicine 10 days before menstruation, 1 dose per day, and stop taking it before menstruation.

2. Black Bean Eggnog Soup

Ingredients: 60 grams of black beans, 2 eggs, 120 ml of rice wine.

Method: First put black beans and eggs into a pot, add water and cook the eggs. Take them out, remove the eggshells and put them back into the pot to continue cooking for about 10 minutes. Pour in rice wine and drink the soup and eat the eggs.

Dosage: Patients should take it for 20 consecutive days, twice a day.

3. Guizhi Dazao Decoction

Ingredients: 10 jujubes, 10 grams of cinnamon twigs, 20 grams of hawthorn, and 30 grams of brown sugar.

Preparation method: First wash the cinnamon twigs, jujubes and hawthorns, then put them into a pot and add water to boil. When the hawthorns are cooked, take out the juice, add brown sugar and continue to boil, then drink it while it is hot.

Dosage: This prescription can be taken at any time, before or during menstruation, twice a day.

4. Ginger, pepper and red dates soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of ginger, 9 grams of pepper, and 10 red dates.

Preparation: Wash ginger, fish maw and red dates, put them into a pot, add water and boil, then remove the residue and drink it warm. You can add a small amount of brown sugar according to your personal taste.

Dosage: Patients can take it once a day before menstruation for 3 consecutive days.