The placenta is a very important organ during pregnancy, and the fetus relies on the placenta through the umbilical cord to get nutrients from the pregnant woman's body for its own development. The placenta also contains a variety of nutrients and hormones. Overall it is a very nutritious substance.
The placenta is also known as: the purple river car, the medical sage Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the record: the placenta is the formation of the day after the birth of the first day of the gas, ordinary nutrients are not comparable. Placenta has a great tonic effect, long eat can make people: black hair, ears and eyes, prolong life.
In Chinese history, the earliest record of eating placenta is the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang, Qin Shi Huang toured the world of immortality medicine, is the placenta.
And Empress Dowager Cixi, Empress Dowager Cixi in her fifties and sixties still have black hair and beautiful face. According to historical records, the doctors said privately because Empress Dowager Cixi always eat placenta.
What about the placenta after giving birth to a child?Pregnant women after childbirth, the placenta has two options, one is to be, one is not.
I. Don't want the placenta after giving birth:
If a pregnant woman chooses not to have the placenta after giving birth, then the placenta is usually disposed of by the hospital.
Perhaps it is disposed of as medical waste along with medical garbage. If the hospital has a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) department, the healthy placenta may be picked for medicine or purchased by someone who needs to buy placenta.II. After giving birth to a child to ask for the placenta:
There are many ways to dispose of the placenta after giving birth to a child if you choose to ask for the placenta.
buried up: there is a custom in folklore, after giving birth to a child placenta to take home and bury it, so that the child can be safe and healthy. Although this has no scientific basis, but is not a good way to deal with the placenta. Stew: Placenta is a great tonic food that can be used for consumption. After giving birth, the placenta can be taken home and cleaned up and given to the mother for consumption to replenish the body. Made into capsules: If you can't eat the placenta directly, you can choose to grind the placenta dry into powder to make capsules for consumption. This method of handling the placenta is very popular, just like taking medicine. Made into souvenirs: Placenta can also be made into souvenirs to remember the days of pregnancy. However, this needs to be done in a professional organization. Sell to the pharmacy: placenta belongs to the Chinese medicine, known as the purple river car, has great medicinal value. If you don't want to eat or throw away the placenta after giving birth to a baby, you can sell it to the pharmacy, which puts the purple river car into medicine and sells it to the patients who need it. Gift: Because placenta is a great tonic, there are many older people like to eat. In that case you can give it away. After giving birth to a child placenta are how to deal with?Baby mama: into the delivery room before the doctor asked if you want the placenta, I did not understand, thinking to have a child is not on the line, to have the placenta what is the use of the placenta, I did not want the placenta.
BaoDa: wife after giving birth to a child after the placenta brought back, back to the next day I was off work wife and mom said to give me a good thing to eat, I feel quite delicious, eat two days to know is the placenta? Since then half a year without eating meat?
The mother: before giving birth to a child, the doctor did not ask if you want the placenta, after the birth of the husband to ask for the placenta, the doctor said to throw the garbage can to go.
Baby father: listening to others talk about the placenta is a complementary thing, would have liked to come back to the wife to eat, or to eat their own line. But looking at the placenta really can not eat, there is a kind of hair drinking blood feeling, and finally brought back home buried in the ancestral home next to the.
Baby mother: Speaking of the placenta on the gas, originally intended to come back as a souvenir, who knows was secretly eaten by her mother-in-law, and actually let me after the second child placenta also stay for her to eat, really speechless.
While the placenta is theoretically a great thing, you can also eat. But not everyone's placenta can be consumed, and not everyone can consume it. If a pregnant woman has an infectious disease (hepatitis B, AIDS?) or gynecological diseases, then the placenta cannot be consumed because it can take away maternal viruses or become infected with bacteria through the vagina during a normal delivery. And, if the body is weak people are not suitable to eat placenta, because the deficiency is not to be supplemented. So, there are many ways to deal with the placenta after giving birth, but if you eat it, you must be careful to avoid infection with viruses.