Placenta is used as a tonic in many novels, and many people in legend don't know what it is. In fact, it has another name, as we all know, that is placenta, which has been regarded as a tonic since ancient times. More than 2000 years ago, in order to live forever, Qin Shihuang once ate virgins, and later found that the effect of afterbirth (placenta) was better than that of children. The first emperor ordered the placenta to be the top product of royal health care, and later emperors used it to preserve health and prolong life. In modern times, the placenta has not been abandoned. On the contrary, when many women give birth, the elderly often repeatedly ask them to take the placenta home to "replenish their bodies", such as mixing other meat dishes in jiaozi, or making capsules, as well as door-to-door production services for placental capsules ... Even some women who are not pregnant and elderly people in poor health believe in the efficacy of placental supplements, and often ask for someone else's placenta to eat, especially the placenta of primiparas. Does the placenta really have the magical function as rumored? Is eating placenta a health risk?

Placental tissue is a special accessory organ of human body, which is called "placenta hominis" or "mixed element one" in traditional Chinese medicine. Placenta is an organ developed from fertilized eggs, which is the link between mother and fetus. Placenta is very important for the fetus, especially for the fetus. In the mother's body, the placenta provides all the nutrition for the fetus. Human placenta contains many hormones and some active substances, such as globulin, albumin, chorionic gonadotropin, placental prolactin and progesterone. , especially estrogen. These hormones have the functions of promoting the development of uterus and ovary and the secretion of emulsion, tonifying deficiency and kidney-qi, enhancing the body's resistance and anti-allergy.

People's placenta does have the function of nourishing qi, blood and body fluid, and patients with extreme weakness, chemotherapy and leukemia don't need to eat it, but once the fetus leaves the mother, the function of placenta will end. Speaking of placenta, the essence of placenta is also composed of some common nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and minerals. To put it bluntly, some placentas are just a piece of meat, just a piece of meat of pregnant women themselves. The placenta contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, not only in the placenta, but also in foods we often eat in our daily life, such as fish, meat, eggs, milk, etc., and its content is equivalent to that of the placenta.

Some people may be entangled in some growth factors, immunoglobulin and other nutrients contained in the placenta. In fact, protein, a macromolecule, is basically digested and metabolized by the gastrointestinal tract in the process of eating placenta, and its original active substances have disappeared. Occasionally there may be a few surviving hormone substances, such as estrogen and progesterone. However, these hormone substances are not what our human body must obtain from external things, because under normal circumstances, the levels of progesterone and estrogen are in a certain balance in the human body. If you supplement these hormones, it will often break the balance of these hormones, but it will bring potential risks to health.

If the placenta is supplemented to children, hormones such as estrogen and progesterone contained in the placenta may cause precocious puberty in children; Moreover, maternal consumption of placenta may increase the incidence of breast cancer to some extent; For men, the level of androgen itself is higher than that of estrogen. If you eat placenta rashly, the result may be feminization, such as breast enhancement and so on. For menopausal or postmenopausal women, appropriate estrogen supplementation is essential, but the specific amount of nutrients contained in the placenta is not easy to control, and there may be some other health risks in the placenta. For example, pregnant women with diseases such as hepatitis B and AIDS can spread hepatitis B virus and HIV to the placenta through blood, and people who eat this placenta can suffer from the above diseases. If it is because of the decrease of hormone levels in the body, it is recommended that you choose a regular drug with a relatively certain dose and use it under the guidance of a doctor.

Placenta is covered with a mysterious veil because of its particularity, and its essence is just a piece of meat. Blind tonic may be worse for your health.