What are the traditional Chinese medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis during menstruation?

For female friends, if the menstrual blood is not flowing smoothly during the menstrual period, it is easy to have dysmenorrhea or other discomforts. Therefore, during the menstrual period, women can learn more about some blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs. In this way, we can use these drugs to help ourselves activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis to better regulate the body and relieve various adverse problems during the menstrual period.

1. Achyranthes bidentata

Achyranthes bidentata is a perennial herb. Its root is used as medicine. When used raw, it can promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It can treat postpartum abdominal pain, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, epistaxis, toothache due to deficiency of fire, and edema caused by athlete's foot. When used cooked, it can nourish the liver and kidneys, strengthen the waist and knees, and treat soreness of the waist and knees, deficiency of the liver and kidneys, and pain caused by falls. Veterinarians use it to treat cattle's soft foot disease, broken bones from falls, etc.

2. Salvia miltiorrhiza

Salvia miltiorrhiza is the dried root and rhizome of Salvia miltiorrhiza, a plant of the Lamiaceae family. Dig it up in spring and autumn, remove the mud and sand, and dry it. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting menstruation and relieving pain, clearing the heart and eliminating restlessness, cooling blood and eliminating carbuncle. It is used for chest pain, heart pain, epigastric and flank pain, accumulation of masses, pain due to heat, restlessness and insomnia, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and swelling and pain of sores.

3. Peach kernel

Peach kernel is the dried mature seed of peach or mountain peach of the Rosaceae family. The fruits are harvested when they are ripe, the pulp and shell are removed, the seeds are taken out and dried. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, relieving cough and relieving asthma. It is used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal masses, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, injuries from falls, dry intestine and constipation, cough and asthma.

The medicines introduced above can be very effective in helping to regulate some discomforts during women’s menstrual period. Therefore, in daily life, we should learn more about these common sense, so that we can help ourselves achieve the most ideal effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis and avoid more adverse injuries.