What causes abdominal bloating during menstruation?

　　Traditional medicine believes that swelling is due to stagnation of gas in the body, and pain is due to blood stasis. There are also distinctions between cold and heat syndrome. If it is a cold syndrome, it should be tempered with warm foods; if it is a heat syndrome, it should avoid eating hot foods. During an attack, you can use Shaoyao Licorice Decoction, which can relieve any pain due to its muscle relaxing function. In fact, as long as you eat a normal diet, take appropriate exercise to promote gastrointestinal motility, and maintain a happy heart, you can greatly reduce the chance of gastric bloating and stomach pain.

　　distended pain Sometimes it is related to diet, sometimes it is related to menstrual cycle. female When the menstrual cycle comes, the lower abdominal cavity below the belly button will be affected by the circulation of the cycle, so some people will have colic and diarrhea, and some people will have diarrhea. constipate . People who suffer from constipation will have stomach bloating and pain, sometimes very severely. Therefore, when diagnosing and treating distension and pain, if the patient is a female, one must consider diet, and on the other hand, whether it is related to the menstrual cycle. This is also related to the fact that many women do not pay much attention to their daily diet and like to eat cold food. The lower abdomen becomes tight due to thermal expansion and cold contraction, so menstruation regulation methods must be used. As long as the menstrual cycle is smooth and normal, the bloating and pain in the stomach will naturally improve.

　　Selected from Taiwan's most influential Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Butao's 14-year health classic "Don't Ask for Help for Small Illnesses".