Lotus seeds have high nutritional value, and have the effects of reducing fire, calming nerves and benefiting kidney. A small amount is good for pregnant women. Although pregnant women can eat lotus seeds raw, it is best to cook them, and they can cook porridge or stew desserts, which are very delicious and nutritious.
Pregnant women must learn to exercise restraint in eating lotus seeds, which are cold foods. Eating more lotus seeds for pregnant women is harmful to their health and may even cause miscarriage.
When is it better for pregnant women to eat lotus seeds? It is best for pregnant women to eat during labor and dystocia.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: Lotus seeds are often used in dystocia. "Food Traditional Chinese Medicine and Convenient Prescription" also introduces: women's uterine contraction is weak and dystocia: lotus seeds 10, boiled water, rushed into half a cup of yellow wine to warm clothes. This means that pregnant women can eat it during labor and dystocia, which can effectively help pregnant women to give birth. The effect of promoting birth is even better than that of hippocampus. For example, it has been said in the compendium of materia medica that lotus seeds work twice as hard as hippocampus and promote excellent results.
At the same time, it also shows that in daily life, pregnant women should not eat too much lotus seeds, because "New Edition of Materia Medica" says: Lotus seeds enter the kidney meridian, and they are better at abortion, so they can give birth. This means that lotus seeds have the effect of promoting blood circulation and abortion. Nowadays, medicine is further developed, and many views of the older generation have been proved wrong, but in general, it is better to be careful. Lotus seeds are really cold, and eating more is not good for pregnant women.
How do pregnant women eat lotus seeds 1 and lotus seed porridge?
Ingredients: 40 grams of rice, 35 grams of lotus seeds, 5 grams of medlar, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice:
(1) Wash the rice, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, and cook porridge on medium heat.
(2) Peel the lotus seeds from the lotus, and remove the outer skin and the inner lotus seed core.
(3) After the water is boiled, pour the peeled lotus seeds and cook porridge on medium heat.
(4) Add a little medlar color matching, add a little rock sugar, and cook until the rice is cooked, which takes about twenty minutes.
2, red dates, white fungus and lotus seed soup
Ingredients: tremella, rock sugar, lotus seeds, red dates, medlar.
Practice:
(1) red dates 10 minutes to wash for later use; Soak lotus seeds one night in advance, peel them off to remove the black heart and wash them for later use.
(2) soak Lycium barbarum for 1 min, and then wash it for later use; Soak tremella in 15 minutes. When ready to go, remove the thick pedicle and tear it into small pieces for use.
(3) Add clean water to the rice cooker, put the lotus seeds and red dates in and cook for 1 hour, then add tremella to stew for half an hour.
(4) Add rock sugar and stew for another half an hour. When the soup is sticky, add Lycium barbarum and stew for 5 minutes.