During the confinement period, you must not eat cold food, nor can you eat food that is too greasy and inflamed. You can drink more medicated soup with Chinese herbal medicines, or eat more nutritious and digestible food. So, what are the medicinal diets suitable for confinement?
1. Brown sugar glutinous rice porridge
Ingredients: brown sugar, glutinous rice.
Practice: soak the glutinous rice one hour in advance, then add some water and brown sugar to the casserole and boil it. Add the glutinous rice and cook it into porridge.
2. Duck soup
Ingredients: duck, coix seed, longan, yam, lotus seed, almond, boat-fruited sterculia seed, euryale seed, Polygonatum odoratum, etc., and seasonings.
Practice: First, cut the duck into pieces, blanch it with boiling water, put it in a stew pot, add other washed materials, and then add water without materials to stew it in water.
3. Mutton soup
Ingredients: mutton, red bean, longan, beet, black bean, red koji, and seasonings such as soy sauce, ginger, sesame oil and rice wine.
Practice: Wash and cut the mutton into pieces, blanch it in boiling water once, add other materials into the stew pot, and then put it in clear water to stew cooked food.
4. Ginger porridge
Ingredients: rice, ginger, scallion and salt, monosodium glutamate, rice vinegar and other seasonings.
Practice: First, cook the rice into porridge, then simmer on low heat, add scallion and ginger peel and cook until the rice is cooked thoroughly, and finally add seasoning to serve.
5.honey osmanthus chicken soup
Ingredients: chicken, honey fruit, Polygonatum odoratum, black beans, Polygonatum sibiricum, raspberry, ginger slices, cinnamon, salt and other seasonings.
Practice: Cut the chicken into pieces, blanch it in boiling water, and then put it in a stew with other materials, add water and stew it until cooked, and then season it.
6.bass soup
Ingredients: perch, angelica, red dates, ginger slices.
Practice: After the bass is cleaned, put it in boiling water with other materials and stew it.
7. Siwu Duzhong Yaozi Decoction
Materials: Kidney, Eucommia ulmoides, Angelica sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, and ginger slices.
Practice: First, put the herbs together in a pot and decoct in water, about the amount of two bowls, then clean the kidney and fry it with ginger slices and put it into the medicine juice to eat together.
8. Chicken with sesame oil
Ingredients: chicken, sesame oil, wine, ginger slices.
Practice: First, wash the chicken, cut it into pieces and cook it with white water, then fry the ginger slices with sesame oil until light brown, and then add the chicken and wine to cook the cooked food.
The above medicinal diets are suitable for the second trimester, but the recipes for the second trimester should also be selected according to different parturients. For example, the recipes for natural delivery and caesarean section are definitely different. The recipes should be adjusted in time at each stage after delivery. Just after delivery, don't take supplements in a hurry. You can eat some foods that help stimulate appetite and digestion, start to replenish qi and blood in the second week, eat some foods that can help midwife milk in the third week, and start to recuperate your body in all aspects in the fourth week. And then the lactation food should also be selected according to their own needs, and the suitable tonic method is more helpful for postpartum recovery.