Postpartum Qi and blood deficiency conditioning diet therapy is the first choice

Women will lose a lot of blood during the delivery process, which can easily lead to postpartum qi and blood deficiency, so they must actively adjust their diet afterwards, and eat more astragalus and longan baby chicken, jujube and pig's trotter peanut soup, black glutinous rice wine and brown sugar boiled eggs, pig's trotter porridge, ginseng and Polygonatum pig's trotter soup, etc. In addition, they should pay more attention to rest.

1. Astragalus and Longan Chicken

Ingredients: 1 male young chicken weighing about 1000 grams, 3-6 grams of astragalus, 50 grams of longan, 20 grams of soaked shiitake mushrooms, 20 grams of winter bamboo shoots, appropriate amounts of fresh ginger, vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, salt, MSG, cooking wine, and a little water starch.

practice:

1. After cleaning the chicken, put it in a pot of boiling water and cook until it is 70% cooked (keep the chicken soup), chop it into rectangular pieces, and mince the ginger.

2. Heat the wok, add 30 grams of oil, add the minced ginger and stir-fry for a while, add cooking wine, soy sauce, and chicken soup (it should be enough to cover the chicken pieces by one finger). Put chicken pieces, astragalus, longan, etc. into the pot, bring to a boil, then simmer over low heat until the chicken pieces are cooked through, add MSG, a little water starch, vinegar, sesame oil and wolfberry and mix well.

Efficacy: This medicinal diet is suitable for women who have just given birth and suffer from qi deficiency, blood deficiency, and qi deficiency. It also has the effect of nourishing and preventing cardiovascular diseases for the elderly with qi deficiency and physical weakness.

2. Red Date Pig Trotter Peanut Soup

Ingredients: 1 pig's trotter, 250 grams of peanuts, 100 grams of astragalus, 2 bottles of rice wine, 150 grams of red dates, and 20 grams of angelica.

practice:

1. Cut the pig's feet into pieces, blanch them in boiling water, then take them out and soak them in cold water. Soak the peanuts in cold water for 4 hours, then cook until slightly soft.

2. Put the pig's feet, astragalus, red dates and peanuts into the stew pot at the same time, and add rice wine and water to cover all the ingredients. Stew until the peanuts and pig's feet are cooked through, then add the angelica and simmer for five minutes.

Efficacy: Red jujube, pig's trotter and peanut soup is suitable for postpartum lactation and protein supplementation. Those who have undergone surgery can add bitter tea oil to stir-fry the ingredients, but do not add wine, and then consider eating it depending on the healing condition of the wound.

3. Black glutinous rice wine and brown sugar boiled eggs

Ingredients: 2 spoons of black glutinous rice wine, 1 egg, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.

practice:

1. Put the black glutinous rice wine into the pot and add 1 bowl of water.

2. After boiling for 10 minutes, break and peel the eggs, put them into the pot, add brown sugar, and cook until the sugar is dissolved before eating.

Efficacy: It can replenish blood and qi for postpartum women, dispel cold and remove blood stasis, and is suitable for postpartum women of any physique. (It is best not to drink brown sugar water for more than 10 days, so as not to increase bloody lochia, and in summer it will make the mother sweat more, resulting in less salt in the body.)

4. Pig’s trotter porridge

Ingredients: 1 pig's trotter, 3 grams of tongcao, 10 grams of loulu, 100 grams of glutinous rice, appropriate amounts of scallion, MSG and fine salt.

practice:

1. Remove the hair from the pig's trotters, clean them, and chop them into small pieces. Clean the tongcao and loulu, put them directly into the pot, add appropriate amount of water and start boiling, and the remaining juice is fine.

2. Put the pot on the fire, add the cleaned pig's trotters, medicinal juice, rice, and green onion, add appropriate amount of water and slowly boil together, add MSG and salt and it is ready to eat.

Efficacy: Pig's trotter porridge not only has the effect of promoting lactation and replenishing blood, but also is very effective for women with insufficient qi and blood after childbirth. If you take one dose a day for 3-5 days, you will see very good results.

5. Ginseng and Polygonatum Pig’s Trotter Soup

Ingredients: 6 grams of ginseng, 20 grams of polygonatum, 5 grams of tongcao, 250 grams of pig's trotters, 30 grams of peanuts, and 20 grams of red dates.

practice:

1. Wash the pig's trotters and cut them into pieces. Wash the ginseng, polygonatum, tongcao, peanuts, etc., remove the pits of red dates, and put them into the casserole.

2. Add salt, cooking wine, ginger slices, scallion segments, and water in appropriate amounts, simmer for 2 to 3 hours, add MSG to mix, then you can drink the soup and eat pig's trotters, ginseng, peanuts, red dates, etc.

Efficacy: Nourishes Qi and blood, replenishes milk and dredges meridians. This meal uses ginseng to replenish vital energy; Polygonatum sibiricum to nourish the kidneys and replenish essence; red dates to strengthen the spleen and harmonize the stomach; pig's trotters, which contain a large amount of collagen and a variety of essential amino acids for the human body; tongcao, which smoothes the qi and unblocks the meridians and increases milk production; and peanuts, which contain protein and unsaturated fatty acids. Suitable for postpartum lactation due to insufficient Qi and blood.