Some mothers who need to suck milk need to eat more of these foods, so do you know which foods have such effects? What are the benefits of eating loofah for lactating mothers?

Today, we are talking about a very common food in summer. Although it is unknown, it is a very friendly food for our nursing mothers-loofah.

Whether it's a tender loofah or a dried loofah, it has a first-class function of promoting and draining milk. Let's analyze the loofah in detail and bring you several delicious recipes and the making method of loofah.

Breast-feeding mothers, eat loofah this summer!

1, why does towel gourd have the function of promoting milk and discharging milk?

In fact, the most important function of loofah is loofah.

Luffa sponge is sweet in taste, cold in nature, enters the liver and stomach meridians, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation, relieving swelling, removing toxic materials, dispelling wind and dredging collaterals, and can be used to treat postpartum qi and blood stagnation and meridian obstruction.

When lactating mothers have postpartum hypogalactia, poor milk secretion and breast lumps, many of them are caused by meridian obstruction, mammary gland obstruction, liver depression and qi stagnation or qi and blood stagnation. Therefore, lactating mothers with this situation eat loofah sponge, which has a particularly good effect on promoting lactation and discharging milk.

Compendium of Materia Medica records:

"Loofah can remove heat and benefit intestines when cooking. Old people burn sexual clothes, remove wind and phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, kill insects, dredge meridians, promote blood circulation and secrete milk; "It can be used to treat bleeding during urination and defecation, hemorrhoid, leakage and collapse, jaundice, hernia, egg swelling, blood gas pain, carbuncle, sore swelling, toothlessness, acne rash and fetal poison."

Fresh loofah also contains loofah, so whether it is fresh loofah or old loofah, nursing mothers can eat it often.

2. The delicious practice of loofah

The present loofah is fresh, tender and cheap, and several delicious loofah recipes are shared with you.

1), Luffa Sliced Meat Soup

Ingredients: a towel gourd, 200g pork, shredded ginger and starch.

Practice:

Peel the loofah, cut into pieces, slice the pork, and add starch to grab it evenly;

Put a proper amount of oil in the pot, add ginger and loofah, stir fry a few times and then add a proper amount of water;

Add the sliced meat 5 minutes after the water boils, slice the sliced meat, cook it for a while, and add salt to serve.

2) Steamed towel gourd with shrimp

Ingredients: a towel gourd, fresh shrimp 10, shredded ginger, minced garlic, salt and soy sauce.

Practice:

Peel the loofah and cut into sections, remove the head, tail and shrimp line from the fresh shrimp, and add a little salt to taste;

After the towel gourd is put into the dish, add the fresh shrimp, pour in a little light soy sauce, steam in a steamer for 10 minute after the water is boiled, and fry the minced garlic until golden, and take it out;

Take out the steamed shrimp towel gourd and put in the fried minced garlic.

Delicious steamed towel gourd with shrimp.

3. Method of making loofah and method of stewing soup.

It is very simple to obtain loofah sponge. After the yellow and dry loofah is seeded, peeled, washed and dried, the loofah sponge with excellent lactation and lactation promotion effects is obtained.

1), luffa soup

Ingredients: 30g loofah sponge, appropriate amount of broth.

Practice: Wash the loofah and put it into the broth for stewing. After the fire is boiled, cook it for 30 minutes on low heat, and let it cool and drink the soup.

Efficacy: regulating qi and blood of breast, promoting lactation, harmonizing stomach and resolving phlegm. There is little good effect on breast milk caused by mild mastitis and mammary gland obstruction.

2), loofah and pettitoes soup

Ingredients: 30g of loofah, 50g of fig, and a pig's trotter.

Practice: Wash pig's trotters, remove hair, cut into pieces, put them into a casserole and stew with water. After the fire boils, turn to low heat and stew for an hour. Add the washed loofah and figs, and stew for half an hour with salt to taste. Maternal women eat meat and drink soup.

Efficacy: It is mainly used to treat milk deficiency.

Loofah sponge not only has a good effect on postpartum lactation and lactation, but also has a good effect on treating other breast problems. I will contribute two small squares I have collected to you.

Tongru Sanjie Decoction:

Trichosanthes kirilowii12g, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae Viride 9g, Loofah sponge15g, Citrus reticulata, medulla tetrapanacis 9g each, orange leaf10g, Radix Curcumae 6g, Tribulus terrestris 9g, Dandelion15g.

Indications: It can be used to treat liver depression and qi stagnation, and milk stagnation, resulting in breast hardness, fullness, pain and even redness.

Tongjing Huoluo Decoction:

Trichosanthes kirilowii 4 yuan, tangerine peel 2 yuan, green tangerine peel 2 yuan, loofah sponge 4 yuan, raw Cyperus rotundus 2 yuan, medulla tetrapanacis 3 yuan, lentils 5 yuan, angelica sinensis body 1 half money.

Indications: Lactation of milk belongs to qi stagnation.

Need to remind everyone that tender loofah is cold and slippery, and it is easy to have diarrhea when eaten too much, so you can't eat too much no matter how good it is.