Is your period to ward off evil spirits or to attract "unclean" things?

The ancients were very afraid of blood, because bleeding often meant death. Facing the menstrual period of women, the ancients really couldn't understand this strange bleeding phenomenon. So the devil got into the body, and the filthy explanation was gradually accepted by everyone.

So menstrual blood began to be considered as the most filthy thing. Even in the late Qing Dynasty, the Boxers threw women's menstrual cloths at each other in the face of guns, and the city heads fluttered in the wind everywhere. Maybe people in China believed that unclean things could disable each other's guns!

There is still a deep cultural tradition in it. For example, women are not allowed to enter temples during menstruation, and they are not allowed to worship God. The most common thing is that you can't have sex during menstruation, depending on the bad luck of the Red Cross stroke. Perhaps it is impossible to judge whether women are menstruating or not, and they are worried about menstrual accidents on various important occasions, so women are not allowed to attend important occasions at all.

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In fact, menstruation refers to the normal physiological phenomenon of women, and it is not so special. Even menstruation is good for women.

1, which can avoid excessive iron damage.

There is a hereditary disease called hemochromatosis, which is easy to cause iron metabolism disorder in patients and accumulate too much iron in the body; Excessive iron will gradually cause damage to skin, heart, liver, joints and islets.

One of the ways to treat iron excess is to regularly discharge a certain amount of blood. The organic damage caused by hemochromatosis is much less in women than in men, and even hardly occurs. Periodic blood loss caused by menstruation just consumes excessive iron.

2, can promote hematopoietic function

Menstruation causes frequent blood loss and hematopoiesis, which gives women a kind of "exercise" that men do not have. It makes women more able to bear the blow of accidental blood loss than men, and can quickly create new blood to make up for the lost blood.

Practice has proved that men and women with the same weight and health status will die if the proportion of accidental blood loss is the same, while women have the possibility of successful rescue and final recovery.

People's Network-Women's Health: Four Benefits of Menstruation for Women