What is the best food for postpartum women to replenish qi and blood?

It is said that a child’s birthday is the mother’s day of suffering. Childbirth is a level 10 pain experience. In addition to the pain, the mother is at her weakest right after giving birth. She cannot afford to be careless, otherwise it will cause a disease that will last a lifetime. Pregnant women lose a lot of blood after giving birth and their bodies are extremely weak. They should replenish qi and blood in time by eating some nutritious foods to replenish qi and blood, thereby improving the mother's physical function and resistance. Therefore, there is a concept of confinement in our country. Let us now find out what is best for postpartum women to eat to replenish qi and blood?

1. Drink some mushroom soup after giving birth

Mothers should pay attention to the order of supplementation during the confinement period. Many women drink a lot of nourishing soups after giving birth to promote lactation and replenish their energy. In fact, this is not the case. You must be cautious when inducing lactation right after giving birth, and you should not immediately take nutritious broths such as pig's trotter soup, ginseng chicken soup, etc. Because newborn babies eat less at this time, if you take lactation-stimulating products, it will lead to poor milk secretion. Therefore, you only need to add an appropriate amount of soup on the basis of your normal diet, and after three days, drink nourishing soup. When stewing, the floating oil in the soup should be skimmed off to avoid gastrointestinal discomfort to the baby and help the mother maintain her figure.

Try to use as few supplements as possible when making soup after childbirth. Generally speaking, stewing soup requires that medicine and food have the same origin, but the amount and type of medicine should not be too much, and it is not recommended to use too much supplements such as ginseng, astragalus and angelica. Relatively speaking, longan, chestnut, mushroom, etc. are more suitable for making soup. Due to the heavy blood loss and physical exertion after childbirth, you can eat more foods that replenish blood, promote blood circulation, replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, such as brown sugar, donkey-hide gelatin dates, wolfberry, yam, etc.

Elderly people usually believe that new mothers are weak after giving birth and should not eat too much raw or cold food. In fact, fresh fruits and vegetables are the best foods for supplementing vitamins. If they are not consumed adequately, it will cause vitamin deficiency, which is harmful to the body.

2. Don’t take too many nutritional tablets

Whether young mothers or middle-aged mothers, they should pay attention to the diversity of food, and each dish should be sufficient in quantity and rich in color. It is best to apply the five-color matching principle. Black, green, red, yellow, and white should all appear on the dining table as much as possible. This will not only increase appetite but also balance nutrition. Foods can be metabolized and digested by each other after eating. It also solves the problem of many women's dietary preferences. Over time, your figure will naturally become slim and your skin will become moisturized and radiant.

Here I would also like to remind all mothers not to rely on taking nutrients to replace meals to lose weight. Following the body's metabolic laws and eating natural meals are the right choices. Morning is the time when all things come to life and the human body's metabolism is vigorous. Breakfast should be arranged as rich and varied as possible. It is best to have everything, including staple food, milk, fruits and vegetables, poultry and eggs, to enhance the intake and absorption of nutrients. The amount of lunch and dinner should be relatively reduced, especially dinner. Eat less meat, sweets and fried foods. Drink some light noodle soup or rice soup instead of salty soup to reduce the burden on the body when resting at night.

3. Finally, I would like to recommend several simple and easy-to-make medicinal foods, which are suitable for mothers who are in confinement and those suffering from qi and blood deficiency. Red dates, wolfberries and hen soup: Wash an old hen, add a few red dates, an appropriate amount of wolfberries, and a few slices of ginger, stew it into soup and eat it to replenish qi and promote blood circulation. Papaya fish soup: one crucian carp or sea bass, about 200 grams of papaya, peeled and cut into pieces, add them to the stew, you can also put a little enoki mushrooms and other fungi, it is delicious and nutritious. Others include fried yam with celery and wolfberry, longan, jujube and peanut porridge, etc., which are all blood and qi tonics. Eating them regularly can replenish physical strength and restore complexion.