Foods for Activating Blood and Stopping Bleeding
Foods for activating blood and stopping bleeding
Foods that activate blood and stop bleeding both belong to the category of blood-regulating foods. Blood-regulating foods fall into two types: one promotes blood circulation, suitable for treating blood stasis conditions, known as blood-activating foods—women should avoid during menstruation and pregnancy. The other type stops bleeding, suitable for conditions like hematemesis and hematochezia, called blood-stopping foods.
Eggplant: sweet and cool in nature, enters the spleen, stomach, and large intestine meridians. Function: clears heat and stops bleeding. Suitable for hematochezia and constipation. Avoid in cases of cold deficiency and during pregnancy.
Persimmon: sweet and astringent, cold in nature, enters heart, lung, and large intestine meridians. Function: moistens lungs and stops cough, cools blood and stops bleeding, astringes intestines and stops diarrhea. Suitable for bleeding due to heat, such as hematemesis, hematochezia, hiccups, and regurgitation. Avoid in cold deficiency and dampness conditions.
Lotus root: sweet and cold in nature, enters heart, spleen, and stomach meridians. Function: raw use clears heat and disperses stasis, nourishes fluid and quenches thirst; cooked use strengthens spleen and opens appetite, nourishes blood and promotes tissue regeneration, stops diarrhea. Raw use suitable for abdominal pain due to blood stasis, hematemesis, hematochezia; contraindicated in cold conditions. Cooked use suitable for weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, loose stools.
Water spinach: bitter and sweet, slightly cold in nature, enters heart, liver, and lung meridians. Function: promotes blood circulation and urination, facilitates childbirth, clears phlegm, and stops cough. Suitable for abdominal pain due to blood stasis. Avoid in pregnancy and bleeding conditions.
Peach: sweet and sour, warm in nature. Function: activates blood, eliminates accumulation, replenishes qi, generates body fluids. Suitable for abdominal pain due to blood stasis, constipation due to fluid deficiency. Avoid in cold deficiency conditions.
Vinegar: sour and bitter, warm in nature, enters liver and stomach meridians. Function: activates blood, removes stasis, stops bleeding, calms roundworms, detoxifies. Suitable for abdominal pain due to blood stasis, poor appetite, hematemesis, hematochezia. Avoid during external infections; do not combine with fu ling.
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