Food Therapy For Uterine Stagnation

STAGNATION FOOD GUIDELINES - Clearing Qi Stagnation, supporting liver
No night eating
Reduce fat/oily foods
Avoid cold foods/beverages
Don’t eat after dark (allowing digestion a chance to rest at night, which frees up the liver for cleaning and generating blood)

FOOD THERAPY FOR CIRCULATION, moving blood stagnation + Qi stagnation
Focus on bitter and spicy foods, and herbs, as well as emmenagogue teas.

Helpful circulation foods:

  • Chicken Egg

  • Bitter Greens - collards, watercress, dandelion, frisee, radicchio, arugula

  • Roots - carrot, parsnip, beet, turnip, radish, daikon radish

  • Chilis

  • Butter

  • Onion

  • Rice

  • Vinegar

  • Chives

  • Grapefruit

  • Squash

    Helpful circulation herbs:

  • Green Tea

  • Black Tea

  • Ginger

  • Cinnamon

  • Thyme

  • Pepper

  • Cayenne

  • Hawthorne

  • rose

  • motherwort

  • Don Quai - angelica root

  • basil

  • tulsi

  • cardamom

  • caraway

  • chives

  • cloves

  • coriander

  • dill seed

  • fennel seed

  • garlic

  • orange peel

  • peppermint

  • anise

  • caraway 

Cut Back 50% on these foods when clearing stagnation:

  • Fatty and oily foods

(They need a longer time to digest and can occupy the liver when it’s supposed to be cleaning the blood from 11:00pm-3:00am. If you eat during this time you might wake up feeling “hungover”.

  • Cold foods, frozen foods, cold beverages,

Disclaimer: This information is intended as a reference only and not as medical treatment. The information given here is designed to help you make informed decisions about your health. It is not intended as a substitute for any treatment that may have been prescribed by your doctor. Steph C Cosby assumes no liability for injury due to misuse of the information above. If you suspect that you have a medical problem, seek competent medical help.

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