Female all know that in menstrual period eating ice is not appropriate, not only ice exactly but also some food that is attributed cool. Why? What remediation should be made if have eaten?
Food not recommended in menstrual period
Actually not only ice but also some food attributed cool such as Ice goods, eggplant, towel gourd, cucumber, wax gourd, crab, Tian Luo, seaweed, bamboo shoots, oranges, pears, grapefruit and watermelon or some acerb food such as plum and immature tart fruit should be avoided in menstrual period for fear that blood stream block may occur. So should some hot food such as fried food, capsicum, pepper and mustard.
Food recommended in menstrual period
In menstrual period, shallot, edible fungus, peanuts, walnuts, jujube, longan and roses are recommended. If it is careless of you to eat cold food or ice, you can soap steamed with brown sugar and ginger to balance the inner blood cycle so that the blood stream will not be blocked.
Tips on daily life
Apart from not eating ice food, in menstrual period, female should pay special attention to keeping warm, avoiding catching a cold, paddling, being caught in rain, insolating and bathing with cold water. Besides, female should forbid making love, tubbing and swimming and keep pudendum, pants and sanitary napkin clean.
Herbalist doctors argue against female eating ice in menstrual period while western doctors think it doesn’t matter. Blood produces when endometrium desquamates, for blood is let out because of the shrinking of womb. While eating ice, female’s gastrointestinal temperature reduces. Thus, worse shrinking of womb makes it difficult to let out blood. Then it forms the gore. To let out the gore, womb has to take more strength to shrink. Then there goes the reason why eating ice leads to pain.
Western doctors think there should be no food not recommended. Female can eat ice even during confinement in childbirth. Though eating ice may lead to shrinking of womb and pain, these gores can be let out by inner body system. Female needn’t worry too much. But when overwhelming pain caused by eating ice happen, they should go to maternity hospital to check whether there may be other disease.