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Is human placenta really edible? What are the advantages of placenta

Are you a mother who has had children? What did you do with the placenta when you gave birth? Now, in the minds of many people, leaving the mother's placenta is a magical and rare thing. Some people say that it is a high-grade tonic, which can cure all kinds of diseases; others think that the placenta is not healthy and comes from the mother, so it is absolutely not allowed to eat. Can human placenta be eaten? Is placenta really nutritious like the legend?

Nutritional value of placenta:

The main components of placenta are protein, hormone and various enzymes, which have the functions of warming kidney, benefiting essence, supplementing qi, nourishing blood, etc. However, the placenta contains many hormones and some active substances, which can only promote the development of mammary gland, uterus and ovary, and enhance the body's resistance and anti allergy.

In addition, placenta can benefit Qi, blood, kidney and essence. It has curative effect on the symptoms of deficiency of asthma and cough, deficiency of Qi and weakness, deficiency of blood and yellow face, infertility and lack of milk.

So the placenta is edible. Placenta on traditional Chinese medicine is a common Chinese medicine. It can remove the amniotic cord from the placenta of healthy pregnant women, wash and dry it, grind it into powder, and make it into Chinese medicine. The medicine is called "Ziheche", which is beneficial to human body.

Benefits of eating placenta

According to experts, placenta is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. Its name is "Ziheche". In traditional medicine, placenta is also known as "human cell" or "cytosol". It is recorded in "the collection of Materia Medica" that the main Qi and blood is thin, the woman is tired, the face is belligerent, the skin is black, and the abdominal diseases are becoming thin and emaciated.

According to modern medical research, placenta contains protein, sugar, calcium, vitamin, immune factor, adrenocorticotropic hormone and so on, which can promote the development of mammary gland, uterus, vagina, testis and thyroid gland.

Clinically, placenta is used to treat gynaecological diseases such as uterine hypoplasia, uterine atrophy, myositis and bleeding. It also has good effect on tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, anemia and so on. For kidney qi deficiency, deficiency of blood essence, impotence and spermatorrhea, lumbago and tinnitus, deficiency of lung and kidney, shortness of breath and other diseases, it also has a very significant effect.

Placenta has nourishing effect on some frail patients and old people. There are also some reasons why women take placentas and placental preparations for beauty. Many of the male kidney tonics also contain placenta.

However, the human body pays attention to the coordination of yin and Yang. If the healthy people don't take it properly, it will not have nourishing effect, but will make the Yin and yang imbalance in the body, interfere with the normal endocrine, and cause harm to health.

Can human placenta eat? What are the benefits and side effects of eating placenta?

How to eat placenta

It is understood that there are many popular ways to eat placenta, which can be referred to.

1. Stewed placenta

It is said that the nutritional value of the stew is very high, but it is a challenge to the psychological quality of the eater. Wash placenta, cut it into pieces, add red dates, ice sugar, lotus rice and other stewed soup to cook and eat, or add meat, chicken and duck to stew together.

2. Make meat stuffing

The most common way to eat is to grind the placenta and pork together to make meat stuffing, dumpling stuffing, etc. in this way, eating can reduce the psychological burden of the eater, and will not feel difficult to swallow.

3. Grinding into powder to make capsule

Wash placenta, dry and grind into powder, put into capsule and swallow. But at present, there is no pharmaceutical factory that produces placenta capsules in China. Most placenta capsules on the market are made by family workshops, which can not guarantee the health of eating. It is recommended that the eaters carefully consider this kind of eating method.