Red dates are a very common fruit in daily life, and many people love to eat them. However, many people don't know if it's okay to eat them during their period. Today, the editor will introduce the benefits of eating red dates and the suitable groups for you.
Can you eat red dates during your period?
Blood nourishment during menstruation is something every woman does, and some older people say that eating more red dates during this time can help regulate the menstrual cycle. However, not every woman is suitable for eating red dates during her period. Women who are prone to bloating should not eat red dates during their period, and the second group, women with edema, should also avoid them. Red dates have the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing blood. For women, taking red dates appropriately during menstruation can relieve pain. However, TCM experts remind that some women may experience increased menstrual flow if they consume too many red dates during their period, so red dates are not for everyone!
Anciently known as "woody grain," red dates are a natural and highly nutritious health food. It is recorded in "Shang Han Lun" by the medical sage Zhang Zhongjing and "Ben Cao Gang Mu" by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty: Red dates mainly treat abdominal qi, balance stomach qi, open the nine orifices and aid the twelve meridians; they supplement deficient qi, deficient body fluids, and insufficiencies in the body; they harmonize with various medicines, nourish blood, lower blood pressure, and benefit the kidneys and brain." Hua Tuo's student, Wu Pu, also said: "Jujubes are harmonizing, benefit the spleen qi, make one's complexion good, and remove old age." Jujubes can be called "the king of a hundred fruits."
Although eating red dates during menstruation can help women regulate their cycle and is a good thing, not every woman is suitable for eating them during this time. Here, we introduce two types of women who should avoid eating red dates during their period to prevent adverse reactions! Which women should not eat red dates during their period?
The first group is women who are prone to bloating. Eating red dates can generate dampness and stagnation, making the bloating worse. The second group is women with edema. Some women experience puffy eyes or swollen feet, which is a sign of excessive dampness. These people are not suitable for eating red dates because red dates are sweet, and eating too many can easily produce phlegm and dampness. When water and dampness accumulate in the body, the edema becomes more severe. Dr. Wang Xiaogeng mentioned that fresh jujubes are rich in vitamin C. 100 grams of fresh jujubes contain up to 243 mg of vitamin C, which is much higher than the "king of fruits," kiwi, and dozens of times higher than pears and apples. Therefore, we eat fresh jujubes to get their vitamin C. Dried jujubes are different. After being dehydrated and dried, their vitamin C content is greatly reduced. However, they contain other rich nutrients, such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, organic acids, sugars, and especially various trace elements.
There are reports in foreign literature that clinically, for some patients who are particularly weak, the speed of recovery from illness is three times faster for those who often eat red dates compared to those who take vitamin supplements. Dried jujubes, also known as big jujubes or red dates, have always been considered a mild and nourishing tonic in traditional Chinese medicine. Red dates mainly have the effects of strengthening the spleen and harmonizing the stomach, calming the mind, and nourishing blood. The common people also use it as a very effective supplementary food for blood nourishment.
Dr. Wang Xiaogeng points out: "Jujubes contain cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which participates in our body's energy metabolism. It is an important substance involved in intracellular regulation of material metabolism and biological functions. In the body, it can promote the survival of myocardial cells, enhance their resistance to injury, ischemia, and hypoxia, promote the influx of calcium ions into myocardial cells, enhance phosphorylation, increase myocardial cell contractility, and increase cardiac output; at the same time, it dilates peripheral blood vessels, reduces cardiac ejection impedance, reduces the preload and afterload on the heart, increases cardiac output, and improves heart function. Thus, it plays a role in nourishing the myocardium, dilating blood vessels, anti-platelet aggregation, and anti-arrhythmia."
In addition, jujubes also contain triterpenoid compounds, which have excellent anti-allergic and detoxification effects. Jujubes have a very good auxiliary therapeutic effect on some diseases, especially allergic purpura, acute and chronic hepatitis, and liver cirrhosis.