Brown sugar is warm and sweet, and enters the liver and spleen meridians. It has the effects of invigorating qi, helping spleen to digest food, enriching blood and removing blood stasis, and also has the effects of dispelling cold and relieving pain. Therefore, drinking some brown sugar water can often treat and relieve women's menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, dark red menstruation and abdominal cold pain caused by cold and blood stasis.
The glucose contained in brown sugar can release energy quickly, with high absorption and utilization rate, which can quickly replenish physical strength. Children with deficiency of qi, loss of appetite, malnutrition and other problems can drink brown sugar water in moderation on weekdays. People who suffer from cold and abdominal pain and are prone to catch a cold when menstruation comes can also use brown sugar and ginger soup to dispel the cold.
Li Shizhen also recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that granulated sugar (brown sugar) "regulates spleen and slows liver" and "tonifies blood, promotes blood circulation, removes stasis and discharges lochia". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that warm brown sugar plays a role in enriching blood by "warming and replenishing it, warming and dredging it, and warming and dispersing it". Brown sugar contains ergonovine, which can promote uterine contraction, help the discharge of congestion, and has the effect of warming uterus. Since ancient times, brown sugar has been used as an essential product for dew discharge.
It can be seen that brown sugar water, as a common food, has many benefits for detoxification, nourishing blood and whitening. Not only can you drink it during menstruation, but you can also drink a little at ordinary times.
But don't refrigerate the brown sugar water before drinking it, which may lead to menstrual problems, such as dysmenorrhea and stomachache. In addition, don't add some messy things to brown sugar water, which is easy to produce some reactions. In short, it doesn't matter if you drink brown sugar water properly.