Normal quantity of menstruation is between 50ml-60ml. It is different for different people, and even different for different times of the same person.
How to regulate menstruation?
1. It needs to be paid attention that don't eat uncooked or cold things one week before your menstruation, for people with normal menstruation, this is nothing serious, but for those who have abnormal menstruation, that is not allowed.
2. Drink a cup of brown sugar water made with boiled water every day before your menstruation.
3. Don't make yourself too tired during menstruation.
4. Menstruation can be influenced by mood or pressure, so don't make yourself too depressive.
5. For people with abnormal menstruation, it is better to not touch cold water during menstruation even it is ok for people with normal menstruation.
6. Keep warm during menstruation, avoid stimulating from coldness, coolness, or uncooked food. Pay attention to have more rest, decrease tiredness, strengthen nutrition and increase immunity. Try your best to control the fluctuation of mood, be happy, avoid too much sex, have no sex during menstruation definitely.
If menstrual cycle is normal, but the amount of every period is less than 10ml or can't be soused by two pieces of paper, then it can be called little quantity of menstruation.
If a woman is weak, had a serious disease, being sick for a long time, lose blood or had her spleen been hurt by tiredness or diets or had her kidney hurt by too much sex. Or the disease can be caused by damp in her body, blockage of meridians and blocked blood circulation.
In summary, reasons of little quantity of menstruation are:
1. Excessive diet.
2. Irregular lifestyle. For if women were stimulated by coldness during periods, blood vessels in pelvic can shrink too much and lead to little quantity of menstruation, or even amenorrhea.
3. Sulks or meeting important stimulating in soul or psychological trauma.
4. Reason in endometrium, like endometrial lesion caused by endometrial tuberculosis or thin endometrium caused by artificial abortion or curettage.
5. Internal secretion reasons, like abnormal secretion of different kinds of hormones.
6. Diseases like tumor or uterine hypoplasia.
Eggs boiled with motherwort are good for curing the disease, also other diet therapies like eating more radishes, kelp, water chestnuts, wax gourd, sea cucumber, jelly-fish etc are good. Fat or oily food should be eaten less. Patients can take hawthorn and lotus leaves drink, eat more lean meat, spinach, and sweet potato's leaves, also apples, cherries, grapes which full of iron can be eaten. They can try black-bone chicken cooked with angelica sinensis, radix paeoniae alba, ligustrazine, fresh ginger, water and green onion.
For medical treatment, Fuyan Pill which belongs to TCM is a good choice for without any drug resistance or side effect, if preventions are done well after taking the TCM, patients can be cured within several months usually.