How to treat amenorrhea due to yin deficiency and blood dryness?

Ms. Li, 44 years old, is not in very good health on weekdays. She gets hot, sweaty and breathless after climbing stairs. She almost always puts chili peppers in her meals and often cannot eat without chili peppers. During her recent menstrual periods, the amount of menstruation was noticeably less, and she also had dryness in her body, night sweats and a weak pulse.

Ms. Li wanted to see a Chinese medicine doctor and take some nourishing medicine to improve her weak condition. She also thought that her menstruation would soon stop, so she wanted to take some treatment. However, the Chinese medicine doctor said that these symptoms belonged to the amenorrhea type of yin deficiency and blood dryness, and needed to be taken seriously. He recommended two kinds of medicated food to nourish yin, clear heat and regulate menstruation.

Medicinal Diet Therapy

Raw lotus root juice porridge

Ingredients: 50 grams of polished rice, 12 grams of raw Rehmannia juice, and 30 grams of raw lotus root.

Preparation method: Cook porridge with polished rice, mash raw lotus root to extract juice, add lotus root juice and raw Rehmannia juice when porridge is cooked, stir well and add appropriate amount of brown sugar.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and clears heat. Suitable for yin deficiency, heat and dryness syndrome.

Usage: Eat for breakfast, can be eaten regularly.

Sesame Walnut Candy

Ingredients: 250 grams each of black sesame and walnut meat, 500 grams of brown sugar.

Preparation method: Add brown sugar to a pot and add appropriate amount of water, boil with warm water until thick, then turn off the heat. Fry black sesame and walnut meat, pour into sugar and mix well, then pour into a disk coated with cooked tea oil, cool slightly, and cut into strips with a knife.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin, blood and moistens dryness. Suitable for yin deficiency and blood dryness syndrome.

Usage: Take 1 piece twice a day.