Dietary Therapies for Menopausal Syndrome
Dietary Therapies for Menopausal Syndrome
Recipe One: Lotus Seed Lily Porridge
Ingredients: 30g lotus seeds, 30g lily, 30g glutinous rice. Cook the lotus seeds, lily, and glutinous rice together to make porridge. Take it once in the morning and once in the evening. Suitable for menopausal women experiencing palpitations, insomnia, confusion, forgetfulness, fatigue, and rough skin.
Recipe Two: Licorice Wheat Drink
Ingredients: 30g wheat, 10 red dates, 10g licorice. Boil wheat, red dates, and licorice in water. Take it once in the morning and once in the evening. Suitable for menopausal women experiencing hot flashes, sweating, restlessness, palpitations, and dull complexion.
Recipe Three: Goji Berry Red Date Soup
Ingredients: Equal parts of goji berries, mulberries, and red dates. Cook in water and take it once in the morning and once in the evening. Alternatively, use 30g Chinese yam and 100g lean pork to make a stew and drink it once a day. Suitable for menopausal women experiencing dizziness, blurred vision, poor appetite, fatigue, and pale complexion.
Recipe Four: Goji Pork and Bamboo Shoots
Ingredients: 30g goji berries, 30g bamboo shoots, 100g lean pork, appropriate amount of lard, salt, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce, and starch. Heat the lard in a pan, stir-fry the pork and bamboo shoots until cooked, add other seasonings. Take it once a day. Suitable for menopausal women with dizziness, irritability, heavy menstrual flow, dull complexion, and heat in the hands, feet, and heart.
Recipe Five: Rehmannia and Lily Porridge
Ingredients: 30g raw Rehmannia, 30g Lily, 30g glutinous rice. Extract the juice from Rehmannia and Lily, then cook glutinous rice porridge with the juice. Take it once a day. Suitable for the same conditions as mentioned above.
Recipe Six: Jujube Seed Porridge
Ingredients: 30g sour jujube seeds, 60g glutinous rice. Clean the jujube seeds, decoct and extract the juice, then cook the porridge with glutinous rice. Take it once a day for ten consecutive days as one course. Suitable for menopausal women with emotional instability, excessive anger, dull complexion, and poor appetite.
Recipe Seven: Prepared Licorice and Carp Soup
Ingredients: 15g prepared licorice, 1 carp (about 500g). Decoct the prepared licorice in water for 2 hours, then cook the carp with the herbal juice, adding ginger, green onions, salt, and monosodium glutamate when serving. Suitable for menopausal women with dizziness, tinnitus, lower back pain, or lower limb edema, preference for warmth and aversion to cold, or cold pain in the lower abdomen, and dull complexion.
Recipe Eight: Mimosa Flower Porridge
Ingredients: 30g mimosa flowers (dried), or 50g fresh mimosa flowers, 50g glutinous rice, appropriate amount of brown sugar. Cook the mimosa flowers, glutinous rice, and brown sugar in 500ml of water over low heat until the porridge is ready. Consume it warm on an empty stomach one hour before bedtime. It has the effects of calming the mind, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, etc. Suitable for menopausal women with irritability, melancholy, restlessness, forgetfulness, and insomnia.
Recipe Nine: Sweet Barley Jujube Porridge
Ingredients: 50g barley, 50g glutinous rice, 10 red dates, 15g licorice. First, decoct the licorice and remove the dregs. Then, add glutinous rice, barley, and red dates to cook the porridge. Take it twice a day on an empty stomach. It has the effects of nourishing qi, calming the mind, and beautifying the skin. Suitable for menopausal women with mental confusion, frequent sadness and crying, lack of self-control, or night sweats, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse.
