Is eating placenta effective?

I believe everyone who has given birth knows about the placenta. Many people also eat the placenta because they believe that eating the placenta is beneficial to the body's early recovery. In fact, we can give two explanations for this statement. One is that eating the placenta is indeed beneficial to us. The other is that eating the placenta will bring some infectious diseases. Let’s take a look at the detailed introduction.

What are the benefits of eating the placenta?

The scientific name of the placenta is "placenta". Its main components are protein, hormones and various enzymes. It has the effects of warming the kidney, benefiting the essence, replenishing qi, nourishing blood, etc. It has certain medicinal value. In traditional Chinese medicine, the placenta has been used as medicine for thousands of years and has been recognized; its medicinal value mainly enters the lung, spleen, and kidney meridians; among them, tonifying the kidney meridian is the most important. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes replenishing the body with like. The placenta contains many subtle substances of the human body, which can be used to treat infertility and kidney yin and yang deficiency, and has good therapeutic effects; in terms of entering the lung meridian, it has a good therapeutic effect on allergic rhinitis, asthma, and unexplained rashes. In addition, placenta is also a good prescription for the treatment of chronic gastritis.

Although placenta has great medicinal value in history, its application has also changed over time. In the long development process of traditional Chinese medicine culture, human urine sediment, boy's urine, stove core soil, etc. were once very good Chinese medicinal materials, but now they have been eliminated, and placenta is no exception. With the continuous development of modern medicine, many drugs can completely replace the efficacy of placenta, and the effect is very good.

The dangers of eating placenta :

There are many infectious diseases nowadays. The placenta is rich in blood that can carry bacteria. If it is not prepared well or is not thoroughly sterilized during the cooking process, it may transmit diseases such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis E, AIDS, syphilis, etc. In addition, there are many germs that modern science has not detected. If you eat them blindly, you may very likely get an infectious disease.