Female Body Maintance Skill -The Period

Female Body Maintance Skill -The Period

1.10 Days Before the Period:
(1) Avoiding having direct cold food from a fridge. If it can’t be avoided, there is a solution. The food should be took out of the fridge about 20 min. before eaten.
(2) No spicy food.

2. During the Period.
(1) Avoiding eating cold food from a fridge.
(2) No spicy and deep-fried food.
(3) No cold shower or bath.
(4) No sex.
(5) No lifting heavy-weight items.
(6) Drinking ginger brown sugar tea
(7) Don't take medicine or herbs without doctor's prescription.

3. After the Period:
(1) Taking food with high iron, such as red grapes, red beans, black beans.
(2) Taking more Chinese herbs: shi4 wu4 (Chinese herbs, Taiwanese herbs, ba1 zhen1 Chinese herbs, Taiwanese herbs), chung1 jiang4 tang1 (Japanese herbs) and so on.
(3) Taking more Chinese soups: Ma2 you2 ji1 soup.

Recipes:

Dark Brown Sugar Tea

TeaTraditional way:
Ingredient:3 cups of water, 1+ 1/2 soupspoons of dark brown sugar, 3 slices of old ginger root. Cooking method: to mix all ingredients all together and boil them. After boiling, simmer it for 5 min.. When water becomes 2 cups, then it can be served.

Modern way:
Ingredient:
1 cup of water, 1/2 teaspoons Ginger powder, 2 teaspoon dark brown sugar. Mix them together in a cup, then serve it.How to take:
One cup in the morning after breakfast and one cup before sleeping (the first day and the third day).

Black Bean Soup:.

Ingredient:
1 cup of black beans, 6 pig ribs, 6 cups of water.
Cooking Method:
Soak black beans for 4 hours before using. Mix all ingredients together and boil them. After boiling, simmer them around 45 min. then serve it.
How to take:
Take it as normal soups.

Ma2 You2 Ji1 soup:

Ingredient:
Half a chicken with bones ( chopped into the size you like), one or two old ginger roots ( can be sliced or hammered ), half an cup of black sesame oil, 6-8 cups of water, one bottle of rice wine (if you don’t like strong favor, you can just add one cup or none)
Cooking method:
Pour sesame oil into the hot wok. When oil is hot, put ginger slices or hammered ginger to stir-fry together. When the ginger flavor comes out, put the chopped chicken and wine to stir-fry together. After that, pour the water and boil it. After the soup is boiled, turn down the fire to simmer for 50 min.
How to take: Take it as normal soups.