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There are around 40 years in a woman's lifetime that will be involved with the menstral cycle. This includes how to adjust your lifestyle, certain foods that should be eaten, which herbs should be taken, etc. Regardless on your attitude towards your menstruation or your ˇ§periodˇ¨, it is certain that a woman's period is a sign of her health quality. In other words, it is the body's way of communicating its ˇ§statusˇ¨ via timing, duration, color, if there are and how large the blood clots during your period.

However, in order for this ˇ§time of the monthˇ¨ not to become the nightmare of the month, proper foods and lifestyle adjustments should be taken into consideration. At the same time, due to various and active hormonal changes, the menstral period is an opportunity to adjust one's fundamental health ˇ§baseˇ¨. If special care is taken at three phases around your period: before, during and after, you will ultimately become more and more healthy, and have a healthy glow and complexion every month. After all, your menstral cycle is a type of ˇ§rebirthˇ¨ every month that your body undergoes giving itself a chance for a lifetime of health and beauty.

Similar to post partum care, Monthly Menstral Care is also in a sequential phase, one that involves, pre, during and post period care.

Care before your period

During this time, the goal is to decrease pre menstral symptoms via light foods and mild exercise. Exercise can allow the brain to produce Serotonin and Endorphin, allowing more leveled emotions, preventing pessimism, mood swings, etc. In terms of food, different types of ingredients are accentuated for various symptoms. For those who are easily irritated, experience constipation, have waist/ back pains, we can eat more foods that stimulate digestive activity and increase metabolism, such as burdock, carrot, lotus root, tofu, etc. For those who are anemic and easily fatigued, we can eat more ginger, scallion, spices, etc to stimulate energy levels. And for those who easily have headaches, joint aches or rapid weight gain before your period, we need to especially watch our sodium intake and water intake. Foods such as caffeine, alcohol and nicotine and other stimulants, increase chances of depression, anxiety and will intensify pre-menstral symptoms.

Care during your period
The first two days of your period, it is important to focus on expelling discharge via uterine contractions, thus we eat pig liver. During this time, our physical energy is rapidly consumed so we shouldnˇ¦t hold back on taking sweets, even overweight people can afford to have a suitable amount of sweets. From the third to sixth day, we focus on increasing metabolism via eating pig kidneys. During our period, we should refrain from eating over oily foods and icy foods, these types of foods cause intestinal burden. Foods such as bamboo, lemon, mushrooms, curry and cold foods should be refrained, whereas red bean and black sugar is encouraged for its ability to rid fatigue, expel water levels and to help with circulation.
Care after your period
During this phase, our goal is to recover our energy and regain strength. Here, we should eat more fish, shrimp (ideally with head), meats with cartilage and pig/ cow stomach is also very good to help recover energy lost from your period. For women who are easily anemic, spices and stimulating flavored foods are encouraged to stimulate appetite recovery.
What to watch out for during your period
Besides abiding by a sequential phase menu for food and nutrition guidelines, there are some lifestyle points to keep in mind:
1. Get adequate sleep and relax, donˇ¦t give yourself too much pressure, do less household chores.
2. Refrain from washing your hair, to prevent blockage of blood expulsion
3. Keep warm during your period, especially during the summer remember to wear light weight long sleeves shirts and pants, if not possible, try to keep joints and stomach area covered.
4. Try not to stand for too long and carry heavy objects.
5. Donˇ¦t perform vigorous exercise to prevent blockage of blood expulsion.
Pre-Period Care: the week before
For women who are easily anxious, suffer from constipation, have waist/ back pains, should increase their intake of foods that stimulate digestive activity and increase metabolism, such as burdock, carrot, lotus root, tofu, etc. For those who are anemic and easily fatigued, we can eat more ginger, scallion, spices, etc to stimulate energy levels. For more information on W Group solutions in Pre-Period Care, please see products page.
Care During your Period
For stimulating uterine contractions, we can increase our intake of liver and black sugar. For the first two days, we eat pig liver and then from the third to seventh day we change to pig kidneys. We should try to increase our intake of sweets, ginger and red beans. During this time, since our body burns calories quickly, we can consume sweets, even overweight women can eat a suitable amount of sweets. As for other foods, try to keep other foods light and nutritious, refraining from overly oily or icy foods to prevent from laying too heavy a burden on your intestines. For more information on W Group solutions in During-Period Care, please see products page.
Post Period Care
During this phase, our goal is to recover our energy and regain strength. Here, we should eat more fish, shrimp (ideally with head), meats with cartilage and pig/ cow stomach is also very good to help recover energy lost from your period. For women who are easily anemic, spices and stimulating flavored foods are encouraged to stimulate appetite recovery. For more information on W Group solutions in Post-Period Care, please see products page.