in ancient costume plays, the favorite nourishing food for the concubines in the harem is the bird's nest. The bird's nest is the best food for women to nourish and beautify their faces. Can all women eat the bird's nest? Can pregnant women eat the bird's nest? Does eating the bird's nest for pregnant women affect the fetus?
What are the benefits of bird's nest for pregnant women?
First, babies are healthier
According to relevant reports, more than 80% of pregnant women in China eat bird's nest every year to nourish their babies so as to ensure their future health and intelligence. And the fact also proved, pregnant mother in the first two months to three months of pregnancy began to eat bird's nest until the time of birth, not only can make the mother's body stronger and stronger, but also can make the new baby's body stronger, skin whiter and more beautiful, and will not easily get sick.
Postpartum women, to ease the burden of feeding children, to restore the lean posture before production, bird's nest is the best natural tonic food. Its sex Wen Wei Ping, to pregnant women and postpartum women, fill but not greasy, more easily absorbed.
The second point is to provide and supplement nutrients needed in pregnancy and childbirth
Pregnant women in the early stage of pregnancy due to vomiting and other reasons generally eat very little, relatively speaking, the intake and absorption of nutrients will be greatly affected. The bird's nest needs only a small cup every day, and the nutrition it can supplement can almost equal to the nutrition that pregnant women usually take three meals a day.
Third, prevent pregnancy striae
According to the relevant statistics, about 70% to 90% of pregnant women in the first pregnancy, when the abdomen just began to expand rapidly, the expansion has exceeded the normal stretch of the belly skin, it is easy to cause pregnancy wrinkles.
Pregnancy marks usually appear in the lower abdomen, thighs, buttocks or chest, showing milky, purple or maroon stripes, once produced, it is difficult to remove! Bird's nest contains a polypeptide material, epidermal growth factor (EGF), known as the best 'beauty gene'. It can stimulate a variety of cell division and proliferation, promote cell differentiation, supplement collagen, and repair the damaged skin quickly, especially for the prevention of stretch marks, which can make the skin smooth and elastic while preventing stretch marks.
How to eat bird's nest
1. Bird's nest, Cordyceps, tremella soup
raw material
5 g bird's nest, 3 G Cordyceps sinensis, 15 g tremella, 25 g ice sugar.
practice
The medicine is prepared in proportion. First stew the bird's nest with water, then add in Cordyceps sinensis, tremella and crystal sugar and cook for 15 minutes. Drink soup and eat bird's nest, Cordyceps sinensis, tremella.
Effect
Bird's nest Cordyceps tremella soup not only can play the role of nourishing the lungs and kidney, but also has the obvious effect of nourishing the face and relieving cough.
Indications: deficiency of Yin, dryness and heat, cough without phlegm or less phlegm, obscure nose, shortness of breath, night sweat and hemoptysis.
Prescription: in the prescription, the bird's nest is sweet and smooth, which can nourish the lung, Yin, sweat and beauty. Cordyceps sinensis is a good medicine for invigorating kidney, benefiting lung, relieving cough and asthma. Tremella has the function of nourishing lung and blood. It has significant effect on deficiency of lung yin, cough, asthma, night sweat, hemoptysis or the elderly with pulmonary tuberculosis. Often take this prescription to keep fit for a long time.
2. Bird's nest, Cordyceps, Lily and duck soup
raw material
There are 2 bird's nests, 3 G Cordyceps sinensis, 25 g Lily and 100 g duck meat.
practice
The medicine is prepared according to the proportion. The duck meat is stewed for 30 minutes, then the bird's nest, Cordyceps and Lily are added for another 15 minutes. The soup is drunk and the bird's nest, Cordyceps and duck meat are eaten.
Effect
Nourishing yin and clearing heat, moistening lung and relieving cough.
Indications: deficiency of yin and hyperactivity of fire, cough and shortness of breath, bitter mouth and dry throat, upset and insomnia, or middle-aged and elderly people suffering from tuberculosis, hand, foot and heart heat, bone steaming and hot tide, night sweat and hemoptysis.
Fang Lun: in the prescription, bird's nest, Cordyceps can nourish the lung and kidney, relieve cough and asthma. According to the collection of compendium of Materia Medica, "lilies have the effect of clearing phlegm and fire and mending deficiency". Duck meat has the functions of Nourishing Yin, clearing heat, promoting water and reducing swelling. Yin deficiency, Huowang, cough and asthma, insomnia, take bird's nest Cordyceps Lily duck soup has significant effect.
3. Stewed bird's nest with snow clam and Tremella
raw material
3 grams of snow clam, 3 grams of bird's nest, 3 grams of tremella, 30 grams of ice sugar.
practice
1. Soak the bird's nest, snow clam and Tremella in warm water.
2. Remove the feather of the bird's nest and tear it into strips. Rinse the clam, scrape off the black impurities and cut it into small pieces. The tremella was torn into petals.
3. Put the bird's nest, snow clam and Tremella into the stewing cup, add 1 bowl of boiling water, cover the stewing cup, and stew in water.
4. When the water in the pot is boiled, stew for 30 minutes with high heat first, then stew for 1 hour with medium heat, add in ice sugar and then stew for 30 minutes with low heat.
5. Stew well and take it out. Take it after it is warm.