Can the weak and sick eat the placenta? How to eat it?

Everyone has heard of the practice of eating placenta as a tonic, and many people have doubts about eating placenta. But in fact, the placenta does have edible value. As long as the weak and sickly people are physically suitable for eating placenta, it can indeed have a nourishing effect. Placenta is a relatively fishy food, so we have to adopt certain methods in preparing it.

1. Can people with weak constitutions eat placenta?

The placenta has a nourishing effect on some patients with weak constitutions and the elderly. There is some truth in it for women to take placenta or placenta preparations for beauty purposes. Many of the men’s aphrodisiac and kidney-tonifying medicines also contain placenta ingredients. In addition, the placenta has a certain nourishing effect on postpartum women. The placenta has a good tonic effect, especially suitable for postpartum women. The placenta can strengthen the body, promote physical recovery, and promote milk secretion.

2. The most nutritious way to eat the placenta

1. If you don't mind stewing, you can wash and cut the placenta into pieces, add red dates, rock sugar, lotus rice, etc. and stew it. It can also be stewed with other Chinese medicines according to the doctor's advice, such as Cordyceps stewed with placenta. Wash and cut half of the placenta into pieces, and put it into a 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. Some people are superstitious about making dumplings, so they often wash and chop the fresh placenta and make dumplings with other ingredients.

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

4. To make meatballs, wash the placenta, chop it into fine pieces with appropriate amount of pork, beef, mutton and seasonings, and make meatballs for stewing or frying.

3. Are there any side effects of eating the placenta?

Placenta is a traditional Chinese medicine. Its scientific name is "placenta". In traditional medicine, it is also called "human placenta" or "placenta". Its main components are protein, hormones and various enzymes. It has the effects of warming the kidney, benefiting the essence, replenishing qi and nourishing blood. It is rich in protein and can enhance the body's immune ability. However, the human body requires the harmony of yin and yang. If healthy people take it inappropriately, it will not only fail to have a nourishing effect, but will cause imbalance of yin and yang in the body, interfere with normal endocrine system, and cause harm to health.

In addition, experts pointed out that except for cesarean section, the delivery of the placenta must go through the birth canal, and this process is likely to be contaminated by multiple bacteria. Since maternal health conditions vary widely, if the mother herself is sick, there is a high probability that a large number of pathogenic factors will be present in the placenta, which can be detrimental to others.