Irregular menstruation refers to changes in any aspect of the menstrual cycle, menstrual flow, color, or consistency. Common manifestations include early menstruation, delayed menstruation, irregular menstrual cycles, heavy menstrual flow, and scant menstrual flow. Dietary recommendations vary depending on the specific symptoms. Those with qi and blood deficiency may consume meat, eggs, dairy products, seafood, as well as warming and tonifying foods such as red dates, brown sugar, and longan flesh. Avoid raw, cold, and cooling foods. Those with qi and blood stagnation may consume rose petals, hybrid tea roses, trumpet vine flowers, fennel, Sichuan pepper, alcohol, vinegar, green tangerine peel, dried tangerine peel, peach kernels, safflower, cuttlefish, and oysters—all of which help regulate qi and invigorate blood circulation. Avoid overly rich and greasy foods. Those with blood heat should choose foods that clear heat and cool the blood, such as horseweed, purslane, celery, fresh lotus root, daylily buds, and white grass root. Avoid spicy and heat-inducing foods. Those with blood cold may choose ingredients that warm the meridians and dispel cold, such as fresh ginger, dried ginger, brown sugar, mugwort, and fennel. Avoid raw, cold, and cooling foods. For those with liver qi stagnation, it is advisable to choose foods such as green tangerine peel, aged tangerine peel, kumquat, green plum blossoms, Buddha’s hand, radish, radish seeds, citron peel, and sword beans. Exercise caution when consuming tonic foods.
The following are clinically proven, affordable, effective, and delicious tea, decoction, and soup formulas:
Five-Ingredient Whole Chicken Soup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Nourishes qi and blood, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by qi and blood deficiency, characterized by delayed menstruation, scanty flow, pale-colored and thin menstrual blood without clots, a sallow complexion, fatigue and weakness, palpitations and dizziness, a pale-red tongue, and … Read more
Ginseng Chicken Soup in a Clay Pot，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Tonifies qi, nourishes blood, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by qi and blood deficiency. because it runs warm overall, this decoction is best avoided in yin-deficient, fire-prone constitutions; in the absence of frank deficiency, or where an … Read more
Two-Flower Menstrual Regulation Tea，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis; regulates qi and relieves pain. Suitable for dysmenorrhea caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, characterized by scanty flow, abdominal distension and pain, dark-colored menstrual blood with clots, or amenorrhea.
Four-Flower Tea，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis; regulates qi and relieves pain. Suitable for dysmenorrhea of the blood stasis type.
Ejiao Decoction，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Tonifies qi, nourishes blood, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by qi and blood deficiency.
Dried Ginger, Mugwort, and Brown Sugar Tea，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Warms the meridians, unblocks the channels, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by blood cold, characterized by delayed menstruation, scanty flow, dark red menstrual blood with clots, cold pain in the lower abdomen, or amenorrhea, accompanied by a … Read more
Motherwort Honey Drink，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Promotes the flow of qi and blood and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by qi and blood stagnation, characterized by delayed menstruation, scanty flow, irregular cycles, dark-colored menstrual blood with small clots, lower abdominal distension and pain, depression, chest tightness and discomfort, … Read more
Green-Peel Hawthorn Decoction，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Promotes the flow of qi and blood and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by qi and blood stagnation.
Dried Tangerine Peel and Orange Leaf Tea，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Promotes the flow of qi and blood and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by qi and blood stagnation.
Celery and Rock Sugar Syrup，From *Proven Tea, Decoction, and Soup Recipes for Common Ailments*,Clears heat, cools the blood, and regulates menstruation. Suitable for menstrual irregularities caused by blood heat, characterized by early menstruation, heavy flow, purplish-red color, viscous consistency, blood clots, restlessness, thirst, a yellow tongue coating, and a rapid, forceful pulse.
