1. Foods that should be eaten more after delivery

(1) Whole grains: rice, millet, corn flour, black rice known as "black pearl", brown rice, wheat flour, millet, sweet wheat and red beans.

(2) Meat, eggs and milk: chicken, duck, fish and shrimp, pork, pig's trotters, liver, beef and rabbit meat.

(3) Vegetables: Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, radish, potato, sweet potato, pumpkin and other melons, spinach, cabbage, lotus root, kelp, onion, yam and so on.

(4) Fruits: apples, oranges, bananas, melons such as cantaloupes, papaya, watermelons, strawberries, kiwis and lemons.

(5) Others: peanuts, hazelnuts and walnuts.

2. Traditional Chinese medicines suitable for postpartum lactation:

(1) Malva seed: It has the effect of lactation, and has good curative effect on postpartum hypogalactia, milk ejection's disease, breast pain and other symptoms.

(2) Vaccaria seed and pangolin: it can cure the problems of insufficient milk and milk ejection difficulty.

(3) medulla tetrapanacis: It can be used with less milk, and is generally used in combination with the two drugs in (2) above.

(4) Cucurbita pepo and Cucurbita pepo root: it is used to treat breast milk deficiency or unsmooth breast milk.

(5) Talc: It is used to treat poor milk and slippery fetus.

(6) adzuki bean: it is helpful to promote the afterbirth and help to treat breast milk disorder.

3. The recipe for postpartum lactation:

Fermented egg flower

Raw materials: fermented grains, eggs and sugar.

practice: beat the eggs evenly for later use, boil a proper amount of water, then add wine to brew, after boiling, stir evenly, pour in the egg liquid, boil the water again and serve, and season with white sugar.

stewed bird's nest with papaya

ingredients: 2 bottles of papaya and bird's nest.

practice: cut one third of papaya into two parts with a knife, and clean the seeds. Pour the bird's nest into the papaya, then put the two parts together and fix them with a toothpick. Boil the pot with high fire, then steam it with low fire for about 4 minutes, and then it can be eaten after cooling.

pettitoes soup

Ingredients: trotters, peanuts, ginger and salt.

practice: after scalding the pig's trotters, put them into the pot together with the ginger slices. Turn on the fire first, then simmer for an hour and a half after the water boils, continue to add peanuts and stew for another hour and a half, and add a little salt before taking out.