Side Effects of Placenta

Many people may not be familiar with placenta, but when it comes to placenta, we all know it very well. In fact, placenta is made of dried placenta. Many people regard placenta as a holy product and think it is a great tonic. In some places, many families who want to have a son will buy the placenta of their first boy at a high price. However, placenta also has side effects. Let's take a look at it below.

Placenta is considered by many to be a very precious food and a great tonic, but not many people know much about its side effects, which is also a problem that many people are very concerned about. So let us take a look at the side effects of placenta.

Side Effects of Placenta

Placenta refers to human placenta. Collect fresh placentas from healthy pregnant women, rinse them in clean water, remove the fascia and puncture the blood vessels around the umbilical cord to squeeze out the blood, rinse them repeatedly for several times, and gently rub them until they are clean. Then use a thin iron wire circle to tighten it inside, sew it up with thread around the edges, put it in a pot of boiling water and cook until the placenta floats, then take it out, cut off the amniotic membrane on the edge, and bake it on a smokeless coal fire until bubbles appear and the texture is crispy and loose.

The placenta does contain many nutrients, but they will denature or degrade after being boiled or dried. It can only provide amino acids to the human body and cannot produce its special physiological effects. Even if there are some "active substances" that happen to remain, after being taken orally and digested by gastric acid and various proteolytic enzymes in the stomach, there is essentially no difference between this and eating two taels of cooked pork. The most important thing is that since the placenta is connected to the mother, if the pregnant woman herself has some diseases that can be transmitted through blood, the pathogens may also contaminate the placenta, such as AIDS, syphilis, hepatitis B, measles, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the placenta is warm in nature and should not be used alone by patients with yin deficiency. It is also not suitable for those with real evil, otherwise it will add fuel to the fire. Therefore, it should be processed properly and consumed scientifically under the guidance of a doctor after diagnosis.

Even for healthy pregnant women, except for caesarean section, the placenta must be delivered through the birth canal, and will definitely be contaminated by a variety of bacteria. If it is eaten fresh, it has potential dangers to varying degrees. If it is not strictly disinfected, it will also spread some infectious diseases. Therefore, when eating fresh food, the heat processing time must be long enough to effectively kill pathogenic microorganisms. In addition, not all placentas of pregnant women can be used for medicinal or edible purposes. The placenta of sick women, moldy placenta, and unclean placenta are not edible. For example, pregnant women with blood-borne infectious diseases (such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, AIDS) will have corresponding pathogens in their placenta because there is a large amount of blood in the placenta. People with ulcers or other wounds in the digestive system may develop foodborne or bloodborne infections if they consume this type of placenta.

Don't be overly superstitious about the nourishing and nutritional value of the placenta. The nutritional components contained in the human placenta are not mysterious. They are similar to those of some animal placens. Taking the immune enhancement effect as an example, although the placenta is rich in immunoglobulins, it cannot be directly absorbed and utilized by the digestive tract after being ingested. Instead, it is digested and broken down into amino acids that do not have disease-fighting immune effects and cannot directly enhance the body's immunity.

Finally, we would like to remind the public that placenta should be stored in a cool and dry place at home, and mixed with some peppercorns to prevent moth and mildew.

Tips: When taking placenta, pay attention to the following points:

1. Maintain good work and rest habits and try to avoid staying up late.

2. Eat less spicy or irritating food.

3. Actively participate in outdoor sports to relax.

4. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself and learn to relieve stress reasonably.

Through the above content, I believe everyone knows what the side effects of placenta are. If you want to supplement your body, it is better to do it through proper food supplements. After all, we don’t know whether the mother will have an infectious disease. If you accidentally eat the placenta of a mother with an infectious disease, you may be infected with the disease, so we must understand the side effects of placenta.