Recently, 40-year-old actress Gao Yuanyuan announced her pregnancy, and this good news has been sincerely blessed by her fans. It is said that during the preparation period for pregnancy, in order to better nourish her body, Gao Yuanyuan even planted some Chinese herbs in her garden at home, and could make herbal soup for herself in a timely manner. Research shows that reasonable preparation for pregnancy can effectively increase the chances of conception and the opportunity to conceive a healthy baby. In order to help everyone become more familiar with Chinese medicine knowledge for preparing for pregnancy, we have selected some classic dietary therapy recipes from "Fu Qingzhu's Gynecology" to provide some reference for those who are infertile in terms of nourishment.
Being thin and infertile is a difficult problem, Chinese medicine diet can regulate it
Older generations used to say: Women with a uniform and full figure are good at giving birth. Women who are too thin may face more difficulties in reproduction. Fu Qingzhu believes that thin and weak women are not easy to conceive, often due to blood deficiency. Daily diet can be used to regulate the situation of being thin and infertile, and often has good results.
In the "Cun Cun Zhai Medical Talks" there is a record of using porridge and oil. Take it daily, add a little salt, and drink it on an empty stomach. Adding salt helps to guide the medicine into the kidney meridian. Porridge and oil, also known as rice oil, is made by slowly simmering fine rice or millet. It is the thick liquid floating on the surface of the pot. After cooking the porridge, pour it into a container and let it cool. The top layer can be used.
Millet and rice have a sweet taste and neutral nature. They have the effects of tonifying the middle and benefiting Qi, invigorating the spleen and stomach. After cooking porridge, a large part of the nutrients enter the soup. The ancients said, "Poor people drinking porridge oil is better than rich people eating ginseng." It can be seen that porridge oil has its wonders. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a scholar named Zhao Xuemin, who recorded in his works: "Black and thin people who eat porridge oil, will become fat and white in a hundred days. Because of its nourishing yin power, it surpasses the cooked land. It is best to drink one bowl a day, and it is best to drink it plain." In the "Outline of Medical Books," it is said that it has a sweet taste, neutral nature, nourishes yin and strengthens strength, fattens the five viscera and a hundred apertures, and promotes urination and relieves stranguria. Before the establishment of New China, poor families in the countryside did not have breast milk for their newborns, so they also fed them porridge oil. This recipe was originally used to treat male infertility, but it is also suitable for women who are thin and infertile.
Since it is blood deficiency, it is necessary to nourish the blood and liver.
You can use 250 grams of cuttlefish, 100 grams each of soft-shelled turtle, black-bone chicken, and Chinese yam, 10 grams of donkey-hide gelatin, and 20 grams of goji berries, with appropriate seasoning. Wash the cuttlefish, soft-shelled turtle, and black-bone chicken, cut into pieces and put them in a pot with Chinese yam and goji berries. Add an appropriate amount of water and simmer until the soft-shelled turtle and chicken are cooked. Then add donkey-hide gelatin, salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., and cook until boiling. Take it twice a week for three consecutive months.
Cuttlefish has a salty taste and neutral nature. It enters the liver and kidney meridians and has the effects of nourishing blood, regulating menstruation, invigorating the spleen, and stopping excessive vaginal discharge. It is very suitable for women to take. Both cuttlefish meat and bones can be used as medicine. Li Shizhen called cuttlefish a blood-enriching herb, which is a good medicine for treating female anemia and blood deficiency with menstrual blockage.
Soft-shelled turtle has a neutral nature and a sweet taste. It belongs to the liver meridian and has long been regarded as a nourishing tonic.
Cold easily causes uterine coldness in women, safflower and angelica can be used to regulate
The biggest enemy of women is uterine coldness. There is also a saying in folk medicine that "men should be kept cold, and women should be kept warm." What is the reason behind this?
There are two main reasons for uterine coldness. One is personal physique. If a woman is usually afraid of cold and has cold hands and feet, it is often because of insufficient yang in the body, which can easily lead to uterine coldness. The other reason is closely related to bad lifestyle habits, such as some women who love to eat cold food or wear thin clothes in cold weather.
The best way to regulate uterine coldness is tonifying the body. Simply eating a bunch of Chinese herbs may not achieve the best therapeutic effect, and excessive use can easily harm the body. Therefore, it is best to choose herbs with mild flavors and suitable for individual conditions to nourish the uterus, expel coldness, and allow it to function normally.
A simple herbal snack is safflower and angelica warming uterus egg. Take 1 egg, open a small hole, add 5 grams of safflower, stir and steam until cooked. Start eating from the second day of menstruation, eat one egg per day for 9 consecutive days, and then start taking it from the second day of the next month's menstruation, continue for 3-4 menstrual cycles, which can promote blood circulation, warm the uterus. Safflower has a sweet taste and warm nature, and has the effects of promoting blood circulation, resolving blood stasis, and nourishing blood to relieve pain. Excessive use can indeed cause miscarriage, but a small amount can have a good effect. Folk remedies use it to regulate uterine coldness and treat infertility.
In winter, women must keep warm. During the menstrual period, they can consume safflower, a warming ingredient that is not excessively hot. Safflower and chicken are the best combination of rich nutrients and fragrant taste. Take 200 grams of chicken legs, 30 grams of walnuts, and a little crushed safflower. Wash the chicken legs and remove the bones. Heat the frying pan and fry the chicken legs over medium heat until the skin turns golden. Boil the crushed safflower in water for 15 minutes, filter the tea, and add the chicken legs and various seasonings. Cook until well done with a thick soup. Walnuts nourish the kidneys and spleen, and combined with safflower, they have the effect of nourishing kidney qi and promoting blood circulation.
You can also try a soup made of angelica, ginger, and lamb. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, used this recipe many times in his book "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases." Angelica is a must-have herb for gynecology, as it promotes blood circulation and nourishes blood. Ginger has a pungent and warm nature, which warms the middle and dispels cold, and can assist angelica in promoting blood circulation and nourishing blood. Lamb has a sweet and warm nature, which is the best for treating deficiency-cold caused by overexertion. Take 30-50 grams of angelica, 15-30 grams of ginger, and 500-1000 grams of lamb. Wash the lamb and blanch it in boiling water, then cut the angelica and ginger into slices and stew them together with the lamb. After it is cooked, remove the herbal ingredients and drink the soup. After a month, the whole body will feel warm and the uterine coldness will gradually disappear.
Uterine coldness is different from other gynecological diseases. It requires both regulation and nourishment, and nourishment is even more important than regulation. First of all, pay attention not to eat cold food, avoid eating food that has just been taken out of the refrigerator, and try to avoid eating cold food such as watermelon, pear, mung bean, etc. Also, try to spend less time in air-conditioned rooms. The cold air from the air conditioner can easily invade the body. If you get caught in the rain or catch a cold, take remedial measures in a timely manner, drink some ginger tea to expel the cold.
Don't panic if you are obese and infertile, use tangerine peel to eliminate phlegm and reduce fat
Many women are overweight and are called "fortunate looking". However, abnormal obesity not only makes women lose their soft beauty but also brings some troubles, such as irregular and disordered menstruation, resulting in infertility symptoms.
The spleen belongs to damp earth in the five elements. When stagnant water soaks it, its digestive function becomes weaker, and the water can only gather in the body, becoming dampness and phlegm, resulting in a fat body. Therefore, it is vividly summarized as "fat people have more dampness" by Zhu Danxi. What is dampness? According to traditional Chinese medicine, dampness is yin evil, heavy, turbid, and sticky. It suppresses the meridians and disrupts the functions of the organs, causing infertility.
Another reason for infertility in obese people is that the body is obese, and the internal organs also thicken accordingly. Thick fat hinders the uterus from being easily fertilized, resulting in infertility. The method to regulate obesity-induced infertility is to tonify qi and invigorate the spleen, dry dampness, and transform phlegm to harmonize qi and blood. Smooth qi and blood flow naturally lead to pregnancy. Fu Qingzhu has formulated a recipe called "Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang" which consists of 15 grams of ginseng, 10 grams of astragalus (raw), 3 grams of bupleurum, 10 grams of angelica, 15 grams of white atractylodes (fried), 30 grams of poria, a small amount of licorice, chuanxiong, and tangerine peel. Boil and drink with water. This recipe can also be used during pregnancy to treat symptoms such as spleen and lung qi deficiency, tiredness in limbs, tastelessness, and swollen hands and feet.
You can also use a single herb to assist in the treatment of obesity and phlegm-induced infertility, which is tangerine peel mentioned earlier. Tangerine peel is the peel of citrus fruits. It is recorded in the book "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic": "Tangerine peel can treat chest heat and rebellious qi, and promote water and grain metabolism. After a long period of use, it can remove odor, relieve qi, and invigorate the spirit." In the Tang Dynasty, tangerine peel could even be used as a tribute, as a precious commodity. Interestingly, for most herbs, the fresher the better the medicinal properties, but tangerine peel is the opposite. The longer it is dried and aged, the better. Therefore, there is a saying of "thousand-year ginseng and hundred-year tangerine peel." Because it has a pungent and bitter taste, it can disperse qi. Bitterness is used to disperse, so it can remove phlegm. Its main function is to regulate the qi of the spleen and stomach. If the spleen and stomach have dampness and turbidity, and there is stagnation of qi and blood, it is easy to cause infertility. Therefore, tangerine peel has a powerful dispersing and purging effect, warm and transform dampness and turbidity, and can regulate the spleen and stomach to achieve the purpose of treating infertility.
In the book "Yin Shi Bian Lu" written by the medical expert Zhang Mu in the Qing Dynasty, there is a recipe for tangerine peel porridge. Take 20 grams of tangerine peel and 100 grams of glutinous rice. First, boil the tangerine peel into a concentrated juice, remove the residue, and add the glutinous rice to cook into porridge. This is the most effective method for losing weight and eliminating phlegm. This recipe is suitable for treating infertility caused by dampness and also suitable for hypertensive patients to lose weight and lower blood pressure.
Tangerine peel can also be infused in wine. Take 60 grams of tangerine peel, remove impurities, wash and dry it, and cut it into small pieces. Put it in a porcelain bottle and add 1000 grams of rice wine. Soak for 10 days before drinking. It can eliminate dampness, reduce fat, and transform phlegm. Drinking a small cup before bed every day can help sleep and speed up metabolism.
If you want to speed up the weight loss process, you can make a tea drink with tangerine peel, lotus leaf, and coix seed. Wash the dried lotus leaf, tangerine peel, and coix seed, put them in a pot, add boiling water, filter the tea, and add rock sugar to stir and blend. Tangerine peel and lotus leaf can effectively regulate the spleen and stomach, hawthorn can clear fat, and coix seed helps metabolism. When combined together, they form a very good tea drink for weight loss and phlegm elimination. If you can't drink it, don't waste it. Pour it into the bathtub, and the water will become fragrant. Tangerine peel also has certain beauty effects. It contains volatile essential oils, which can enhance the elasticity and smoothness of the skin.
For women preparing for pregnancy, first of all, control your weight, pay more attention to participating in physical exercise, and control your diet properly. Eat more vegetables and less flour, sugar, and fatty foods. If necessary, you can drink some lotus leaf water to clear fat, maintain a slim figure, and keep the five viscera and six bowels healthy. Only then can you give birth to a smart and healthy baby.
