5 foods to help you stay away from menstrual cramps

　　1. Leek Juice and Brown Sugar Drink (Efficacy of warming menstruation and replenishing qi, skin ruddy and smooth)

　　Ingredients: 300 grams of fresh leeks, 100 grams of brown sugar.

　　Method: Wash the fresh leeks, drain the water, chop them into small pieces and mash them to extract the juice. Put the brown sugar into an aluminum pot, add a little water and boil until the sugar dissolves, then add it to the leek juice and you can drink it.

　　Efficacy: It has the effects of warming menstruation and replenishing qi. Suitable for Qi and blood deficiency type Dysmenorrhea , and can make the skin rosy and smooth.

　　2. Big fish head stewed with Gastrodia elata wine (dispels wind, opens the mind, soothes the mind and nourishes the mind)

　　Ingredients: 12 grams of Gastrodia elata (available in traditional Chinese medicine stores), 1 large fish head, 30 ml of Shaoxing wine (1 to 2 tablespoons), and 3 slices of ginger.

　　Cooking: Wash the Gastrodia elata; put the big fish head sideways, remove the gills, wash it, put it into a stew pot with ginger and Shaoxing wine, add 1500 ml of cold water (6 bowls) and a little oil, cover and simmer for 3 hours. When drinking, add an appropriate amount of salt. This amount can serve 3 to 4 people.

　　Efficacy: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that big fish heads are warm in nature and sweet in taste, and can warm the stomach and nourish blood, so women Irregular menstruation , amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and Postpartum It can be used with medicinal materials for dietary therapy for headaches, brow bone pain, dizziness and dizziness caused by wind evil.

　　3. Hawthorn, Guizhi and Brown Sugar Decoction (for women with cold dysmenorrhea and dull complexion)

　　Ingredients: 15 grams of hawthorn meat, 5 grams of cinnamon twigs, 30 grams of brown sugar.

　　Method: Put hawthorn meat and cinnamon twigs into a clay pot, add 2 bowls of water, fry over slow fire until it reaches 1 bowl, add brown sugar, mix well, and boil.

　　Efficacy: It has the effects of warming the meridians, unblocking the meridians, resolving blood stasis and relieving pain. It is suitable for women with cold dysmenorrhea and dull complexion.

　　4. Ginger and jujube brown sugar water (especially suitable for cold dysmenorrhea and chloasma)

　　Ingredients: 30 grams each of dried ginger, jujube, and brown sugar.

　　Method: wash the first two ingredients, mince the dried ginger, remove the cores of the jujubes, add brown sugar to fry, drink the soup, and eat the jujubes.

　　Efficacy: It has the effect of warming the meridians and dispersing cold. Suitable for cold dysmenorrhea and chloasma.

　　5. Angelica mutton soup (this soup is warm and nourishes blood, regulates menstruation and dispels wind)

　　Ingredients: 400g mutton, 25g astragalus, 25g dangshen, 25g angelica, 6 slices of ginger, a little salt

　　Cooking method: (1) Wash the mutton and cut into pieces; tie the astragalus, dangshen and angelica tightly with gauze, and cut the ginger into slices. (2) Heat 1 tablespoon of oil, sauté the ginger slices until fragrant, add the mutton and stir-fry until the blood dries up, then put it into a casserole. (3) Pour an appropriate amount of water into the casserole, add astragalus root, dangshen, angelica root and ginger slices. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to low heat and simmer for 2 hours. Add salt to taste.

　　Efficacy: This soup has the effects of warming and replenishing blood, regulating menstruation and dispelling wind. It can treat irregular menstruation, blood deficiency, oligomenorrhea, blood dryness, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, menstrual headaches, and postpartum symptoms. stomach ache , blood deficiency, dizziness, pale complexion and other symptoms.