Is there a day when you feel that you always have a dull complexion, rough brown skin, hyperpigmentation, or purple spots, purple nails on your lips and claws, blue tongue or petechiae, often pain, easy bleeding, and easy irritability and forgetfulness? If you have these symptoms, you probably belong to the blood stasis constitution in Chinese medicine. As the name suggests, blood circulation is not very smooth. In Chinese medicine, it is called blood stasis when the blood of menstruation cannot be discharged or dissipated in time and stays in the body, or when the blood does not travel smoothly and is congested in the meridians and stagnant in the organs and tissues. People with this type of physique are mostly caused by poor emotions, cold attack, old age and physical weakness, and long-standing illness. Women with menstrual bleeding, such as menstrual cramps, purple color, and sometimes amenorrhea due to internal obstruction of blood stasis and lack of new blood. People with blood stasis are also prone to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents, including stroke and myocardial infarction. If blood stasis is blocked in the heart and lungs, one is prone to chest pain and cough, palpitations and restlessness; if blood stasis is blocked in the stomach, one is prone to stomach pains, which are painful when pressed, aggravated after eating or with lumps, or even blood in the stool or vomiting; if blood stasis is blocked in the liver, one is prone to If stasis is blocked in the liver, there will be pain and lumpiness in the ribs, especially at night; if stasis is blocked in the limbs, there will be localized swelling and pain or bruising; if stasis is blocked in the uterus, there will be irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and purple and black menstruation with lumps; if stasis is blocked in the brain, there will be dizziness and headache, or there will be forgetfulness and insomnia, tinnitus and deafness. Therefore, blood stasis is a major threat to health. Women with blood stasis are prone to irregular menstruation and even infertility, dull and blotchy complexion, and dry hair, which affect not only their health but also their appearance. In men with blood stasis, the age of onset of stroke and myocardial infarction tends to be younger. For people with this type of constitution, it is important to take care of the blood stasis to prevent the occurrence of diseases. It is advisable to eat foods that nourish blood and promote blood circulation, such as pork, mutton, hawthorn, vinegar, brown sugar, yellow wine, wine, etc. It is also necessary to pay attention to daily adjustment of one’s psychological state, maintain an optimistic and open mood, and avoid emotional excitement, so as to facilitate the smooth flow of blood and Qi. People with blood stasis should also exercise more, as the blood flowing when moving, and participate in activities beneficial to the heart and blood, such as various dances, qigong, health exercises, etc. Chinese medicine can use massage, cupping, Gua Sha, acupuncture and other therapies to promote the circulation of blood vessels. At the same time can also be through the soup food therapy for conditioning. Recommended therapeutic soups: 1, motherwort angelica egg soup. Ingredients: 15 grams of motherwort, 10 grams of angelica, 1 egg, a little brown sugar. Analysis of the soup: motherwort taste pungent, bitter, slightly cold, to the heart, liver, bladder meridian, known to invigorate blood stasis, water to reduce swelling effect. 2, loach (eel) Tian Qi Kun Bu soup. Ingredients: 3 taels of loach or eel, 5 grams of Radix Panax notoginseng, 10 grams of kombucha, 3 red dates (pitted), 2 slices of ginger. Analysis of the soup: Tian Qi is sweet and slightly bitter, warm in nature, belongs to the liver and stomach meridian, and has a very good effect of activating blood circulation and stopping blood stasis. 3.Rose flower chicken blood vine bamboo silk chicken. Ingredients: 2 taels of chicken with bamboo silk, 6 grams of rose, 15 grams of chicken blood vine, 2 slices of ginger. Analysis of the soup recipe: Rose flower is sweet and warm in nature, belongs to the liver meridian, has the effect of invigorating blood and regulating menstruation, relieving depression and nourishing the face; chicken blood vine is bitter, sweet and warm in nature, belongs to the liver meridian, has the effect of invigorating blood, tonifying blood, relaxing tendons and activating the collaterals, the two used together, playing the function of invigorating blood, tonifying blood, resolving blood stasis and nourishing the face.