Can onions, ginger and garlic be added to confinement meals?

During the confinement period, dietary adjustment is very important. Try to eat more foods with warming and tonic effects, and avoid eating spicy and irritating foods. Therefore, for postpartum women, try not to eat onions, ginger, and garlic during the confinement period to avoid getting inflamed. This can easily have an adverse effect on their own conditioning and the health of the baby. Try not to eat onions, ginger, and garlic during this period.

Onion, ginger and garlic are all relatively warm ingredients, especially garlic. Spicy, warm and dry foods can easily cause breastfeeding mothers to get inflamed, leading to mouth ulcers, constipation or hemorrhoids, and can affect the baby through breast milk, increasing the heat and making it more prone to symptoms such as constipation. Chili peppers, leeks, fennel, wine, etc. all have this effect. Moreover, the strong smell of onions, ginger and garlic will affect the taste of breast milk, and the baby will become restless after sucking milk.

As daily seasonings, onions, ginger and garlic can make dishes more appetizing, but when cooking for breastfeeding mothers, use less onions, ginger and garlic to avoid making the taste too strong. It is worth noting that mothers should not eat ginger at night, otherwise it will easily affect sleep and damage the intestines. Mothers should remember: the diet during breastfeeding should be light, and eat less spicy, sour, cold, and hot foods; the diet during breastfeeding should be balanced, with proper combination of nutrients, and do not be picky about food.

Foods that pregnant women cannot eat: Beans: green beans, lentils, red kidney beans, white kidney beans and other beans, which can cause poisoning if eaten raw or not heated thoroughly. Raw soy milk: Raw soybeans contain toxic ingredients. If you consume uncooked soy milk, it may cause food poisoning.

Eat delicious chicken broth as a tonic after childbirth

Ingredients: one hen (about 1500 grams), 100 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of refined salt.

Method: Kill the hen, scald it with boiling water, remove the feathers and internal organs, wash it with clean water, put it in a casserole, pour in an appropriate amount of water, put it on low heat to simmer the chicken juice, and pour the chicken juice into a large soup bowl. Wash the japonica rice, put it into the pot, add chicken juice and salt, cover the pot, put it on the fire, and cook until it becomes porridge.

Efficacy tips: This porridge has the effect of nourishing the five internal organs and replenishing qi and blood. It is suitable for women who are thin after childbirth, have insufficient qi and blood, and are weak and strained. It is a commonly used nourishing and strengthening health product.