Many girls have had the experience of dysmenorrhea, and for dysmenorrhea, there seems to be a folk tradition, that is, and brown sugar water. Especially older women, almost all believe that dysmenorrhea cup of brown sugar can ease the pain of lower abdomen. So, dysmenorrhea when drinking brown sugar, is it really useful?
First of all, for the time being, no matter what the effect of brown sugar on dysmenorrhea, we can say that it is effective to relieve the pain when we drink some warm water during dysmenorrhea. Because, hot water can increase the temperature of the abdomen, let the body warm, active blood, speed up blood circulation, and menstruation will be ranked more smoothly. Therefore, women friends if passing poor, abdominal pain, the problem can drink hot water to ease. In this case, because brown sugar is often warm, so drink brown sugar water also has some effect of relieving dysmenorrhea.
However, the brown sugar sold on the market is a kind of sugar which is refined after being processed. Therefore, the nutritious substances contained therein are not high, except that the purely carbohydrate substances and other nutritional elements such as minerals originally existed should have disappeared Exhausted Therefore, the dysmenorrhea attack, the effect of single drink brown sugar, compared with the effect of adding ginger juice to brown sugar to drink, there is a certain gap. And added to the brown sugar in the ginger drink together, both to increase body energy, but also make the gas, blood and liver, warming tendons and collaterals will be better.
In addition, due to brown sugar is hot, easy to dry and lit, so for weak constitution, cold and blood, qi stagnation in women can increase the body heat, reduce the body caused by cold blood dysmenorrhea symptoms. On the contrary, for those who belong to the fire of physical constitution, that is, heavier heat, virtual fire upward woman, the use of brown sugar water is very dry, it is like pouring on fire, the body will not stand because of excessive fire, and bleeding Way to vent within the fire, which will cause excessive bleeding.
In addition, the need for our attention is that brown sugar water regulation of dysmenorrhea for secondary dysmenorrhea have a certain effect, more for postpartum dysmenorrhea women to restore blood gas. However, menstrual women, not only the effect is not obvious, but may increase their anxiety.