What is Placenta

Many people don’t know what placenta is. In fact, placenta is the human placenta. Speaking of placenta, I believe everyone is familiar with it. When a woman gives birth, the placenta slides out of the uterus. Many people don’t know how to deal with the placenta, so some people give it to doctors to deal with, some people take the placenta home and bury it, and in fact some people take the placenta home and eat it. As for how to eat it, the methods vary.

Some people may ask if the placenta can be eaten. Not to mention eating it, it looks horrible, how can you eat it? In fact, the placenta has been used as a medicinal ingredient a long time ago, and its scientific name is Placenta. It has to go through a series of processes such as professional cleaning and drying before it can be used as a medicinal material. Placenta has certain effects of replenishing qi and blood, nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the body, especially for people with weaker constitutions.

What is Placenta

Placenta refers to the human placenta. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the placenta is sweet, salty and warm in nature, and enters the lung, heart and kidney meridians. It has the functions of nourishing the kidney and essence, replenishing qi and nourishing blood.

Placenta has been recorded as early as the Tang Dynasty, and it is also widely consumed by the people as a tonic. Placenta is the dried placenta of humans. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it tastes sweet and salty, and is warm in nature. It can warm the kidneys and consolidate essence, replenish qi and nourish blood. It is used to treat symptoms such as consumptive emaciation, bone steaming and night sweats, cough and asthma, poor appetite and shortness of breath, impotence and spermatorrhea, infertility and low milk production.

Modern medicine has proven that placenta contains protein, sugar, calcium, vitamins, immune factors, female hormones, progesterone, steroid hormones, gonadotropin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, etc. It has hormone-like effects and can promote the development of breasts, uterus, and testicles. If children eat placenta which is rich in sex hormones, it is very easy to cause precocious puberty. The premature development of secondary sexual characteristics of boys and girls will cause great physical and mental harm to them. Among them, the most obvious is the premature cessation of growth and development, and they are prone to psychological inferiority and early sexual behavior. Therefore, it is not recommended to feed placenta to children. In addition, those with real evil should avoid using it, and those with yin deficiency and excessive fire should not use it alone.

Studies in recent years have found that the immunoglobulins contained in placenta cannot be directly absorbed and utilized after entering the human digestive tract. They will be gradually broken down by digestive juices and then converted into amino acids, eventually basically losing their original anti-disease immune function. In addition, if the mother suffers from certain infectious diseases (such as hepatitis B, AIDS, etc.), the placenta will contain a large number of pathogens, and there is a certain potential danger in eating the placenta at this time.

Although placenta is an excellent Chinese medicinal material, it is not suitable for everyone. If you feel that you are very weak and want to take some placenta to nourish your body, you must follow the doctor's advice, use the medicine properly, and do not take supplements on your own.