How to eat the placenta after parturition?

The placenta is very important for the growth and development of the fetus. Generally, the placenta will be delivered after the mother gives birth. In life, many people take the placenta home and make various delicious foods. The nutritional value of the placenta is very high. It can not only beautify the skin, but also has high medicinal value. After consumption, it can enhance the body's resistance. However, not many people know how to eat the placenta.

How to eat the placenta after childbirth

1. Stew

The placenta can be washed, cut into pieces, and stewed with chicken, pork, etc. It can also be stewed with other ingredients such as red dates, rock sugar, lotus rice, cordyceps, etc.

The method of stewing it with Cordyceps is: wash and cut half of the placenta into pieces, and put it into the steamer together with 10 grams of Cordyceps sinensis and 20 grams of Rehmannia glutinosa. Add a little water. Simmer over high heat for 3 hours. take out. Just add a little salt and MSG. Take it while hot, once every other day, for 7 times in a row. It can cure impotence, premature ejaculation and spermatorrhea.

2. Make dumplings

Some people like to wash and chop the fresh placenta and make dumplings with other ingredients.

3. Stir-fry

Wash the placenta, cut into strips or small slices, add seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic, chili and cooking wine, and stir-fry with vegetable oil.

4. Make meatballs

Wash the placenta, chop it into fine pieces with appropriate amount of pork, beef, mutton and seasonings, and make meatballs into stew or fry them.

5. Cook porridge

First chop the placenta finely. Then cook the rice into thin porridge, add it to the porridge after it boils, season it, cook it, and then eat it.

6. Boil the paste

Wash and chop the placenta, add other medicinal ingredients prescribed by the doctor, process it into a paste as required, and take it.

7. Decoction

One fresh placenta, 75 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 75 grams of dried Rehmannia glutinosa, 75 grams of wolfberry, and 75 grams of Angelica sinensis. Chop the placenta into pieces, soak it in water together with the four herbs, boil it three times, filter out the juice in batches, combine the filtrate, boil it over low heat to concentrate it, add 1000 grams of honey, and mix it into a paste. Take 3 spoons each time, mixed with rice wine in the morning. Or wash the fresh placenta and cook it until it is soft. It can treat kidney deficiency, low sperm count and infertility.

The efficacy and function of the placenta

1. Pregnant women

The placenta contains a variety of hormones and some active substances, which can promote the development of breasts, uterus, and ovaries in pregnant women, as well as enhance the body's resistance and anti-allergic effects.

2. Women with poor skin

The placenta has beauty-enhancing effects. In traditional Chinese medicine, many women’s beauty problems, such as chloasma and sagging skin, are actually caused by weak Qi and blood. Since the placenta has the function of balancing Qi, blood, Yin and Yang, it is very effective when used for such cosmetic problems. From the perspective of modern medicine, the beauty and skin care effect of the placenta is to lighten spots, restore skin elasticity, and make the skin white, rosy, delicate and shiny.

3. Replenishing Qi and Blood: Suitable for people with Qi and Blood deficiency

(1) Insufficient lung qi, long-term cough and shortness of breath, aggravated by cold.

(2) Weak spleen, poor appetite, weight loss, fatigue, and loose stools.

(3) Blood deficiency or deficiency of both Qi and blood, sallow complexion, dizziness, palpitations, insomnia and forgetfulness.