No cold drinks or foods on your period!

Ask any Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and they'll tell you that drinking that cold beverage or eating a bowl of ice cream (as delish as that might be) is only going to make cramps worse. Replace cold and raw foods (like salad, smoothies etc) with warm and easily digestible foods (stews, soups, tea, bone broth).

"TCM views the menstrual cycles as the cycles of nature which correspond to the four seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.

The season of Winter begins on day one of your bleed and ends on the final day of your bleed. This season is a time to rest and to release. Through winter, energy moves inward and downward as Blood leaves the body.

Just like Winter in nature, this season should be listened to for the body by slowing down, keeping warm, and consuming warm and easily digestible foods."