Make your period smoother! 1 cup brown sugar water N multi-action
Function 1: Regulate menstruation
Brown sugar water is also helpful for women's menstruation, which can warm the body, increase energy, activate qi and blood, speed up blood circulation, and menstruation will be smoother. If you feel poor and have a bad complexion after menstruation, you can drink a glass of brown sugar water with a concentration of about 20% before lunch every day. If the discomfort is severe, you can add another drink before dinner for a week to effectively improve.
Function 2: Replenish energy
If you drink some brown sugar water in 7~10 days after giving birth, you can replenish energy and increase blood volume, which is conducive to the recovery of postpartum physical strength, and also has a significant promoting effect on the contraction and recovery of the postpartum uterus, the discharge of lochia and milk secretion.
Effect 3: Warm supplement
Children with problems such as lack of central qi, loss of appetite, and malnutrition can drink brown sugar water in moderation on weekdays. People who suffer from cold abdominal pain and are prone to colds when menstruation comes can also use brown sugar ginger soup to dispel cold. For the elderly and frail, especially those who have just recovered from a serious illness, brown sugar also has an excellent effect on treating deficiency and tonics.
Effect 4: External application to detoxify and moisturize
Brown sugar water can also be used for external application, the same has the effect of detoxification and moisturizing, most of the older generation of people have experienced children being stung by bees, the wound is red and swollen, the pain is unbearable, at this time parents will take a little higher concentration of brown sugar water to apply to the red and swollen area, the pain can be reduced after a while, and the redness and swelling will gradually subside.
Effect 5: Relieves skin itching
In spring, it is often dry and causes itchy skin, and it can also be washed and cleaned with brown sugar water, which can effectively reduce the feeling of dry itching.
Effect 6: Beauty freckle removal
In recent years, Japanese researchers have been inspired by ancient Chinese recipes and the "brown sugar detoxification and whitening therapy" commonly used by singers in the Edo period in Japan, and analyzed the natural components and pharmacology of brown sugar, and found that the natural ingredients extracted from brown sugar are safer and more thorough in whitening than the popular laser freckle removal, fruit acid, freckle removal and other methods.
Effect 7: Conducive to metabolism
Molasses, a special ingredient contained in brown sugar, has a powerful "detoxifying" effect, which can remove excess melanin from the dermis and excrete it through the lymphatic tissues of the whole body, preventing the production of melanin from the source. In addition, the carotene, riboflavin, niacin, amino acids, glucose and other components contained in brown sugar have a strong antioxidant and repair effect on cells, which can make subcutaneous cells grow rapidly after detoxification.
Precautions for drinking brown sugar water:
1. Drinking an appropriate amount of brown sugar water is good for the body, it can promote the division of red blood cells, so that the quality of blood in the body is guaranteed. However, it is recommended that you do not drink it before bedtime, as it is likely to increase the sugar stores in the body, which may lead to diabetes in the long term, as well as other symptoms such as weight gain and tooth decay. You can drink a moderate amount of plain water before going to bed, which can help the body's metabolism at night, and with the morning urination, you can expel a large amount of waste products from the body the day before, which is good for the body.
2. The elderly should use brown sugar water appropriately. Not all elderly people are suitable for eating brown sugar, Chinese medicine believesYin deficiencyPeople with internal heat, indigestion and diabetics should not consume brown sugar.
3. When taking medicine, it is not advisable to take it with brown sugar water. The medicine we take when we are sick has a relatively strong effect, and the general medicine should not be combined with other medicines, brown sugar water is also a medicine from a certain point of view, if it is mixed with other medicines, there may be problems.