What is Placenta

The name placenta sounds very nice, but you may be scared when you see the real thing. In fact, what is placenta? Placenta is the human placenta. We don’t need to be afraid. Since human placenta can be used as medicine, we can eat it. There are many dishes that use placenta for health preservation, so let’s first understand what placenta is.

Placenta is a very famous tonic in traditional Chinese medicine. Many people with weak bodies can eat more placenta for nourishment. People with kidney deficiency should eat more placenta. Placenta can enhance the body's resistance and immunity, resist infection and promote the work of hormones.

The composition of the placenta is relatively complex. Placental globulin products contain a variety of antibodies and have long been used for passive immunization in clinical practice. The human placenta contains interferon (Interferon) and macroglobulin (called β-inhibitory factor).

It also contains components related to blood coagulation: fibrin stabilizing factor similar to coagulation factor XII, urokinase inhibitor and plasminogen activator.

The hormones contained in the human placenta include: gonadotropins A and B, prolactin, thyroid-stimulating hormone, oxytocin-like substances, and various steroid hormones such as estrone, estradiol, estriol, progesterone, androstenone, deoxycorticosterone, 11-dehydrocorticosterone (compound A), cortisone (compound E), 17-hydroxycorticosterone (compound F), etc. Human placental lactogen is related to the chemical structure of human pituitary growth hormone, has immune cross-reaction, and has obvious synergistic effects with growth hormone in hypophysectomized rats, so it is also called prolactin-growth hormone. Some reports believe that placental lactogen has growth hormone-like effects; some reports also point out that placental hormones have no growth hormone-like effects in hypophysectomized rats.

The human placenta also contains a variety of enzymes with application value, such as: lysozyme, kininase, histamine, oxytocinase, etc. It also contains erythropoietin, phospholipids and various polysaccharides.

A large amount of components that relax the duodenum of rats and lower blood pressure in rats are also obtained from the acidic extract of human placenta, and their properties are the same as prostaglandin E1.

Above we introduced what placenta is. Placenta is the human placenta. The effect of placenta is that it can nourish the kidneys. People with weak bodies can improve their physical fitness by eating placenta often. Placenta can improve our immunity and resistance, and can play an anti-infection role.