After the baby is born, every mother needs to breastfeed the baby. Some mothers may have a reduced milk supply due to physical factors and other reasons. In this case, they should consider ways to increase their milk supply. When trying to increase milk supply, mothers should pay attention to changing their diet habits during the breastfeeding period. They should stop consuming milk-boosting soups such as pig trotter soup, fish soup, papaya soup, and stewed chicken, and reduce their intake of high-protein foods and water. Instead, they should consume more foods that can help increase milk supply. Traditional Chinese medicine recommends several medicated diets to help mothers increase milk supply easily.
Milk Supply Medicinal Diets
1. Malted Barley Porridge
Ingredients: 150g of glutinous rice, 50g of raw malted barley, 50g of roasted malted barley, appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Instructions:
1. Put the malted barley in a pot and boil it with an appropriate amount of water. Remove the residue.
2. Put the medicinal juice and glutinous rice in the pot and cook the porridge.
3. When the porridge is cooked, add brown sugar and stir until dissolved.
Effect:
1. Malted barley: Promotes digestion, invigorates the spleen, relieves breast swelling and pain.
2. Glutinous rice: Enhances immunity, nourishes the stomach, activates blood circulation, and disperses stasis.
3. Malted barley porridge: Especially suitable for patients with milk accumulation and breast swelling.
2. Fennel Green Vegetable Porridge
Ingredients: 100g of rice, 5g of fennel, appropriate amount of green vegetables, 2g of salt, 2g of pepper.
Instructions:
1. Rinse the rice and soak it in water for half an hour. Rinse the green vegetables and shred them.
2. Boil an appropriate amount of water in a pot, add the rice and cook until the grains are soft.
3. Add the fennel and continue cooking until it's fully cooked. Then add the green vegetables and simmer until it thickens.
4. Season with salt and pepper, and mix well.
Effect:
1. Fennel: Nourishes the stomach, invigorates qi, promotes milk supply.
2. Green vegetables: Promotes blood circulation, disperses blood stasis, promotes bowel movements, and lowers blood lipid levels.
3. Rice: Nourishes the middle burner, invigorates qi, nourishes the stomach, harmonizes the five viscera, promotes blood circulation, improves hearing and vision, relieves restlessness, quenches thirst, and stops diarrhea.
4. Fennel green vegetable porridge: This porridge has the effects of warming and tonifying the liver and kidneys, promoting qi circulation, dispersing stagnation, promoting blood circulation, moisturizing the intestines, nourishing the spleen, and nourishing the stomach. It is especially suitable for patients with milk accumulation and breast swelling.
Foods that Increase Milk Supply
1. Vegetables: Chinese chives, celery, shiitake mushrooms, white radish, green garlic, Chinese cabbage, Polygonum multiflorum, string beans, cucumber, bitter melon, eggplant, etc.
2. Grains and miscellaneous grains: Sweet potato, corn, malt, etc.
3. Fruits: Pomelo, orange, jujube, pomegranate, hawthorn, plum, persimmon, etc.
4. Meats and liver: Beef, pork liver, duck meat, pig heart, old hen, ham, etc.
5. Spices: Fennel, salt (not too salty), vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, Sichuan pepper, mustard, etc.
6. Aquatic products and tonics: Snails, snail meat, cold-natured foods (such as crabs), sea cucumber, American ginseng, ginseng, etc.
Mothers who are preparing to wean their babies should try the above two medicated diets and eat more foods that can increase milk supply to easily increase milk supply.
