Many postpartum mothers will have regional or even systemic edema, which not only affects the overall beauty, but also is a manifestation of physical condition. What about postpartum edema? Now tell you about the food that can relieve edema after childbirth. I hope it helps you!

Dietary considerations for postpartum edema

◆ Eat light food when edema occurs, and don't eat salty food, especially pickles and sauces, to prevent edema from getting worse.

◆ New mothers with severe edema should properly control the amount of drinking water, and eat less or no food that is difficult to digest and easy to cause flatulence, such as fried and glutinous rice cakes, sweet potatoes, onions and potatoes. , will cause abdominal distension, make the blood back flow, aggravate edema.

Recommended recipes for relieving edema

Recipe recommendation 1: red mung bean slimming porridge

Ingredients: 30g red beans, 30g mung beans, 30g hawthorn, red dates 100g, rice 100g.

Seasoning: appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Exercise:

1. Wash red beans and mung beans and soak them in clear fire for 2 hours. Wash hawthorn and red dates for later use.

2. Put clear water in the pot, add mung beans to cook until soft, add rice and red beans to cook until mung beans and red beans bloom, and add hawthorn and jujube to cook until sticky.

Efficacy: Red beans have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and detumescence, and are especially suitable for new mothers with postpartum edema.

Recipe recommendation 2: Braised eggs with crucian carp

Materials: Carassius auratus * * * 2 treaty 500g * * *, eggs 1 piece.

Seasoning: 1 tsp refined salt, 3 tsp vegetable oil, 5g shredded ginger.

Exercise:

1. Scales, gills and internal organs of crucian carp are removed, washed with clear water, and several oblique knife flowers are cut on both sides of the fish.

2. Put the pot on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, add appropriate amount of crucian carp and refined salt, and cook for about 1 min, and put the soup into a bowl for later use.

3. Knock the eggs into a bowl, add water and salt, stir them evenly, steam them in a cage until they are solidified, and then take them out. Immediately add the crucian carp, pour in the boiled fish stock, sprinkle with shredded ginger, drizzle with vegetable oil, put in a steamer, and steam for 5- 10 minutes, and serve.

Efficacy: Carassius auratus has the effects of detumescence, dredging veins and promoting lactation.

Recipe recommendation 3: red and green rain silk plate

Ingredients: 300g of tomato, 50g of spinach and 25g of vermicelli.

Seasoning: sugar, vinegar, refined salt.

Exercise:

1. Cook the vermicelli in a boiling pot, take it out and let it cool, drain the water, cut it into 6 cm long sections, put it in a bowl and add a little salt to mix well.

2. After washing the spinach, blanch it with boiling water, remove it and drain it. Cut into pieces and mix well with a little salt. After washing and blanching tomatoes, peel and slice them.

3. Take a clean flat plate, spread vermicelli first, then arrange tomatoes, sprinkle spinach, sugar and vinegar.

Efficacy: beneficial to detumescence.

Recipe recommendation 4: Kiwi with egg crisp

Ingredients: 500g of kiwi fruit, 2 eggs and 200g of refined powder.

Seasoning: 200 grams of sugar and appropriate amount of vegetable oil.

Exercise:

1, peeled and sliced kiwifruit; Beat the eggs into a bowl, stir until foaming, and add 30 ml of flour and cooked vegetable oil to make the egg batter.

2. Pour the vegetable oil into the pot, heat it to 70% heat, put the kiwifruit into the pot one by one, fry until golden brown, and drain the oil.

3. Leave 15 ml oil in the original pot, add appropriate amount of water and sugar, dissolve it into sugar solution, and pour it on the fried kiwi slices.

Efficacy: diuresis to relieve stranguria and improve edema.

Recipe recommendation for confinement five: Danggui duck rice noodles

Ingredients: 5 grams of angelica, 5 grams of astragalus, 2 ducks 1/,200 grams of rice flour, 4 slices of tender ginger1.

Seasoning: a little refined salt.

Exercise:

1. Cut the duck in half, blanch it and wash it; Shred tender ginger.

2. Boil 8 cups of Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Astragali in water 1 hour, drain the medicinal materials and keep the decoction.

3. Put the duck, medicinal soup, ginger and salt into a rice cooker, add 8 cups of water and steam 1 time, then steam 1 time after adding water, take out the duck, and let it cool and slice.

4. Cook the rice noodles at the bottom of the bowl, pour the duck soup and spread the duck ginger.

Efficacy: nourishing yin and clearing heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

Recipe recommendation 6: Stewed beef with tomato and soybean

Ingredients: 200g of cooked beef, 250g of tomato and 50g of soybean.

Seasoning: vegetable oil, star anise, minced onion and ginger, refined salt, white sugar, water starch and broth.

Exercise:

1, washed soybeans and soaked in clear water; Beef is stripped, washed and cut into 3cm square pieces; Wash tomatoes, remove pedicels and cut into pieces.

2. Heat the oil in a wok, stir-fry the star anise until it is purple, put the minced onion and ginger into the wok, add the broth and salt, add the beef and soybeans to stew until the beef is soft and rotten, add the tomatoes, add the sugar to stew slightly, thicken the water starch, stir well, and take out the wok.

Efficacy: tonify the middle energizer, invigorate qi, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.

Recipe recommendation for confinement seven: fried shredded pork with watermelon skin

Ingredients: 200g shredded pork, 250g watermelon peel, protein 1.

Seasoning: salt and starch.

Exercise:

1, watermelon peel cut off the outer green peel, washed, then cut into filaments, mixed with a little salt, let stand for a while, and squeeze out salt water; Stir the shredded pork with salt, egg white and starch.

2, the net pot is on fire, put the vegetable oil, heat it and put it into the shredded pork to slide open. When the shredded pork changes color, remove it. Add a little water and salt to the remaining oil in the pot, bring to a boil, add shredded watermelon skin and shredded pork, stir-fry, thicken with water and starch, and serve.

Efficacy: strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.