Recipes suitable for patients with Qi stagnation and blood stasis type dysmenorrhea

Patients with Qi stagnation and blood stasis type dysmenorrhea often experience abdominal distension and pain before or during menstruation that refuses to be pressed, scanty menstrual blood, blood that is dark purple with clots, dark purple tongue with petechiae, and stringy pulse. Treatment should be to regulate Qi and relieve stagnation, dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain. Patients with Qi stagnation and blood stasis type dysmenorrhea according to TCM syndrome differentiation can eat the following recipes to achieve the purpose of relieving dysmenorrhea.

Motherwort and Cyperus Decoction

Ingredients: Motherwort, Cyperus rotundus, chicken, and green onion.

Preparation: Crush the scallion whites and fry them with chicken, motherwort, and balsam pear in water.

How to eat: drink the soup and eat the chicken.

Suitable for: People who suffer from dysmenorrhea and can brighten the skin.

Hawthorn and Red Date Soup

Preparation: Take hawthorn, ginger and red dates, decoct in water and take 1 dose per day, divided into 2 doses.

Efficacy: It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, warming the meridians and relieving pain, and promoting qi circulation and removing stagnation.

Leek, Rose and Brown Sugar Drink

Ingredients: fresh leeks, roses, and brown sugar.

Preparation: Wash the leeks and roses, squeeze out the juice and remove the residue, then add brown sugar to season.

How to take: Take with rice wine, then lie prone for half an hour.

Efficacy: It has the effect of regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.

Chuanxiong Boiled Eggs

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 9 grams of Chuanxiong.

Preparation: Add appropriate amount of water to eggs and Chuanxiong, cook until the eggs are cooked, peel the eggs, put them back into the medicine soup, simmer for 5 minutes, and add appropriate amount of rice wine.

How to eat: Eat eggs and drink the soup, 1 dose per day, 5 days as a course of treatment, start eating and drinking 3 days before menstruation each time.

Efficacy: It has the effect of promoting qi and activating blood circulation.