Pregnancy edema and spleen deficiency are common troubles for pregnant women. Due to spleen weakness or improper diet, spleen yang is damaged, water regulation is unbalanced, and water accumulates in limbs, forming edema. This paper will introduce two kinds of medicated diets to help pregnant women relieve edema symptoms, restore normal temper function and adjust water balance.

Yam and barley porridge

Required materials: 30g yam, 30g coix seed, 20 jujubes and 0.5g cinnamon. Cook all the ingredients into porridge, one dose a day, and keep taking it for 4-5 days.

Golden carp soup

Required materials: Atractylodis Rhizoma, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Angelicae Sinensis each10g, Poria cocos15g, and a carp (about 500g). Wrap the herbs and cook them with carp 1 hour. You can enjoy fish soup after getting up in the morning.