10 Foods That Can Delay Your Period !!

10 Foods that can Delay Your Period

Menstruation is a normal cycle for every woman between the ages of 12 -50 years and it brings women’s femininity. But period causes many problems like pain, sensation, inflammation and also prohibited entry to religious places. So sometimes you need to delay periods and here are the ten foods which naturally avoid or delays periods.

• Avoid Spicy Foods: Spicy foods enhance blood flow and help to initiate the menstrual cycle. So to delay your period you must avoid all types of spicy foods like garlic, chilies and black pepper etc.
• Herbs: Shepherd purse and Raspberry leaves are the herbs and the powder and juice made from it are used to temporarily hold your period.
• Grams (Lentils): The soup made from grams (lentils0 helps to postpone your periods.
• Vinegar: Three to four teaspoons of vinegar added to the glass of drinking water also delays your period if taken regularly twice.
• Parsley Leaves: Drinking the strained water of parsley leaves with honey twice a day also postpones the date of the period.
• Gelatin: Consuming gelatin with warm water thrice a day also helpful against delaying period.
• Low-Temperature Foods: Foods which are cold like watermelon, cucumber, mint, radish, sesame, fennel seeds, coconut water, pomegranate, fenugreek seeds, milk and curd helps to postpone menstrual cycle. So avoid hot soups, hot rice and choose foods which are at room temperature. Also avoids foods which have a heating effect on your body like basil leaves and fruits such as papaya, pineapple, meats etc as it helps to delay your period.
• Lemon: Lemon or lime juice contains citric acid which naturally delays your period and even lessens the periodic pain, tenderness and inflammation. But avoid lemon during periods as it increases pain.
• Bananas and Carrots: Two bananas in breakfast and either raw carrot or its juice both are effective to delay periods.
• Tamarind: Soaked few tamarinds into the water and the strained water of it with a pinch of salt and few ice cubes when taken on an empty stomach also delays your period.

Last but not least drinking plenty of water also reduces the complications of the menstrual cycle. Stress and lifestyle are also responsible for preponing or postpone menstrual cycle. Exercises like cycling, swimming and weightlifting are also helpful in naturally delaying periods. Generally, it is not suggested to delay your periods but sometimes due to unavoidable reasons there is no choice and you have to delay period such as wedding day but try not to postpone period regularly.