Then grandma quickly asked her sister-in-law where is the placenta? Where is the placenta? My uncle said it was buried, but fortunately it was winter, so he dug it out and cooked it for her sister-in-law to drink soup and three bowls. The rest is diced and eaten separately, miraculously. My family said that my grandmother gave my sister-in-law a second life.
Listen to her here, I also feel very mysterious.
Actually, eating placenta is nothing new. No matter at home or abroad, we will hear some cases of eating placenta. Some old people will regard it as a "baby" after giving birth.
If you ask why you want to eat placenta, many people will say: tonic!
What is "placenta"?
The superficial explanation is that placenta is a bridge between fetus and mother. During the development of the uterus, the fetus relies on the placenta for nutrition from the mother, and the placenta is an important endocrine organ.
Another explanation is its medicinal value: many people think it is a tonic with rich nutrition and many benefits. Others compare it to "ginseng fruit" and "Tang monk meat", and it gradually becomes magical.
Is "placenta" really that good?
In China's traditional Chinese medicine system, placenta is really a blind Chinese medicine, scientifically called placenta, also known as placenta, placenta and so on. It is considered that it has the effects of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. However, in 20 15, "Placenta Hominis" was removed from the China Pharmacopoeia, and the reason was to control the spread of diseases from the perspective of morality and ethics.
It is found that placenta contains many active ingredients and a certain amount of hormones, such as estradiol, progesterone and prolactin. , but also rich in iron and protein.
This sounds like some benefits, but if you eat it, after high-temperature cooking and washing, there are few nutrients left, and any piece of meat can be replaced.
So, on the surface, the placenta is really just a piece of "meat".
Then why do so many people come to eat? Let's take a look at the thoughts of netizens:
@ Attitude: My daughter has hypothyroidism, polycystic ovary, and high blood sugar, thinking that she can't conceive. Because of weakness, I ate placenta, and now I have a big fat boy at full term. I think it has something to do with eating placenta.
@ Zhen Jing: My brother was ill. My mother sent someone to the hospital to get the placenta. I'm afraid my brother won't eat. I told him it was rabbit meat cooked in soy sauce. My brother eats very delicious. Later, my mother threw away all the pots and bowls for cooking placenta, and my brother really seldom got sick in recent years.
@ 中中中中中: When I gave birth to my daughter, my mother-in-law said that I should bring the placenta and make up my body for my father. The doctor said it was sold, but I said no, so I bought it back for 25 yuan. Before my father was in poor health, he ate more than a dozen placentas and lived for decades, which was still useful.
@ Shu Hua: I heard many people say that they take this tonic. A friend in Chengdu said that her father is the oldest in the family, and only one of the five daughters is a man, who is weak and sick. She said that she began to eat placenta when she was seven or eight years old, and she has been eating eight, saying that she has never been sick since then!
Let's put aside the role of the placenta for the time being. After all, the placenta is different from other things. In addition to being unacceptable, there are many potential threats that cannot be ignored.
In this regard, obstetricians pointed out: according to the current research, "placenta" has no nourishing effect, but if eaten, there are many risks.
Placenta is not sterile, it also contains toxic substances such as selenium, cadmium, mercury and lead.
In addition, placenta, as a "transit station", will have nutrient residues and harmful substances, such as maternal diseases (syphilis, hepatitis, etc. ) will also stay in the placenta. What's more, if the parturient's birth canal is not clean, it is unhealthy to be contaminated by pathogenic bacteria when the placenta is stripped.
Therefore, I don't know the harm of harmful placenta, and I believe that people who have eaten it have some regrets.
Of course, some netizens think that the placenta has a certain function and don't want to throw it away directly. Here, we also suggest that when preserving the placenta, we should determine whether it is a healthy placenta, or grind it into powder and freeze it for emergencies, or bury it under a big tree and hand it over to the hospital for treatment.
As for eating, I still advise you to think it over. At present, there is no corresponding data to prove its efficacy. If you are a normal person and need a tonic, you might as well switch to other meat. There's no need to take the risk.
How is the placenta treated when giving birth to a child? Do you agree to eat placenta?