What ingredients are put in postpartum chicken soup

I believe that everyone has drunk old hen soup, especially most of the patients who have suffered a serious illness will drink some old hen soup, so as to restore their energy as soon as possible. When making chicken soup, many people like to add some ingredients to make the taste better. What ingredients are good for making chicken soup after giving birth?

What are the best ingredients to use for chicken soup after giving birth?

We can use potatoes to make chicken soup, because potatoes are rich in starch, so after eating they can immediately replenish our body's energy. In addition, if we use potatoes to make chicken soup, the aroma of potatoes will appear, which is also a very delicious method. When making chicken soup, you can also add some special Chinese herbal medicines, such as some medicines for nourishing the fetus and stabilizing the pregnancy, and you can also add some Chinese herbal medicines for supplementing nutrients. In addition to being beneficial to the body of pregnant women. It also has the unique aroma of Chinese herbal medicine.

1. Scutellaria baicalensis

As we all know, Scutellaria baicalensis, as a Chinese herbal medicine, can benefit the lungs, suppress sweating, replenish qi and blood, and strengthen the spleen. Pregnant women often suffer from qi and blood deficiency, prone to sweating, and have a sallow complexion and too little milk after giving birth. The old hen soup with Poria has a pungent and warm effect. Adding the Chinese herbal medicine Scutellaria baicalensis to it can have many improvement effects. Pregnant women can start taking Astragalus stewed chicken soup one week after giving birth.

2. Codonopsis pilosula

Codonopsis can both replenish qi and blood, and also invigorate qi and nourish blood. During the delivery process, pregnant women bleed a lot, suffer from blood deficiency, fatigue, and pale complexion. It is also suitable to add Codonopsis pilosula to the confinement soup. It can increase the body's hemoglobin concentration and increase the number of red blood cells. It also has a good effect on accelerating the body's recovery during the confinement period.

3. Wolfberry

The effect of wolfberry is to strengthen the body and eliminate evil. It has a strong effect on improving the body function and disease resistance of pregnant women, as well as health restoration. Adding wolfberry to the chicken soup for confinement can relieve fatigue, increase the storage of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen, and has a certain effect on the treatment of skin diseases.

Food taboos for pregnant women

1. Avoid hard, rough and cold foods

The gastrointestinal function of new mothers has not recovered. Excessively cold food will damage the stomach and intestines and affect digestion and absorption. Eating cold foods can easily cause blood stasis, which can cause abdominal pain in new mothers and continuous lochia in postpartum women. In addition, new mothers should try not to eat leftovers that have been stored for a long time. It is also best for new mothers not to eat foods that are easy to cause skin allergies, such as seafood, otherwise it is easy to cause skin allergies or bacterial infections, which will directly affect the health of the baby receiving breast milk. However, fresh fruits are not included in the “taboos”. Fresh fruits can stimulate appetite, promote digestion and metabolism, so don’t reject them just because they are too cold. In addition, the fruits usually placed in the room are not easy to get cold enough to irritate the mother's digestive system and affect her health.

2. Avoid drinking a lot of warm water

Generally, new mothers usually have edema in the later stages of pregnancy, and the postpartum confinement period is the golden stage for physical recovery. During this period, all the water accumulated in the human body should be discharged as much as possible. If you drink a lot of water, it may be detrimental to the body's recovery.