How to eat the placenta most nutritiously

Eating the placenta sounds a bit scary, because the placenta is expelled from the mother's body when the baby is born, and eating the placenta will inevitably make us feel scared. But in fact, many people eat the placenta, because the placenta is a very good Chinese medicinal material that can be eaten not only by adults but also by children. Moreover, eating the placenta is very effective in treating some diseases and improving immunity. So what is the most nutritious way to eat the placenta?

1. Stewed placenta

It is said that the nutritional value of this kind of stew is very high, but it is a challenge to the psychological quality of the eater. Wash and cut the placenta into pieces, add red dates, rock sugar, lotus rice, etc. to stew the soup and eat it after it is cooked. You can also add meat, chicken, duck, etc. to stew together.

2. Make meat filling

The most common way to eat it is to mince the placenta and pork together to make minced meat, dumpling fillings, etc. Eating it this way can reduce the psychological burden of the eater and will not feel difficult to swallow.

3. Grind into powder and make capsules

Wash the placenta, dry it, grind it into powder, put it into capsules and swallow it. However, there is currently no pharmaceutical factory in my country that manufactures placenta capsules. Most of the placenta capsules on the market are made in home workshops, and hygiene for consumption cannot be guaranteed. It is recommended that consumers carefully consider this way of eating.

Can the placenta be eaten? The placenta, whose scientific name is "Placenta", can be taken as a traditional Chinese medicine. The placenta has certain auxiliary therapeutic effects on specific groups of people, but it is not the "tonic" as rumored by the public. If it is consumed indiscriminately without proper diagnosis, it may not only fail to nourish the body, but may also harm the body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the placenta is warm in nature and taking it casually can easily cause internal heat.

Placenta (a processed product of human placenta) is a traditional Chinese medicinal material recorded in all editions of the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia". From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, human placenta does have certain effects of warming the kidney, replenishing essence, invigorating qi and nourishing blood. It is mainly used for emaciation due to deficiency and fatigue, impotence and spermatorrhea, infertility and lack of milk, long-term cough and asthma, bone steaming and fatigue cough, sallow complexion, poor appetite and shortness of breath, etc. For patients suffering from bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, easy colds, sweating, etc. which are caused by deficiency of both lung and kidney, or lack of milk after childbirth, pediatric malnutrition, physical weakness after illness which are caused by deficiency of qi and blood, eating the placenta of healthy mothers can play a certain role in auxiliary treatment or improving disease resistance.

However, the human placenta is warm in nature, and taking it casually can easily cause internal heat. If it is stewed with wolfberry, red dates, longan meat, etc., it will become even more hot. The placenta must be consumed under the guidance of a doctor, especially those with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should use it with caution. For those who suffer from colds, excessive fire, or damp-heat in the spleen, consuming fresh placenta or processed products indiscriminately will not only fail to replenish the body, but will make the heat in the body worse, leading to dry mouth, bloating, poor appetite, etc., making the original pathogenic factors stagnant and difficult to eliminate, which is not worth the loss.