A, animals: crab, turtle, eel, loach, toad, bird meat (sparrow meat may), rabbit meat, donkey meat, horse meat, mule meat, dog meat, lamb liver, goat meat. In addition, I personally recommend that, in addition to toads, other cold-blooded animals also eat less as well.
B, plants: coix seeds (rice kernel), hawthorn, peach, plum, plum, apricot, lychee, cinnamon, bean paste, ginger, cinnamon.
C, food with taboo: chicken and glutinous rice, carp and eggs, mulberry and duck, bird meat and bean paste, shrimp toad and eel.
D. Others: No cold drinks.
F. Genetically modified foods.
Based on my personal current level of knowledge, I make the following analysis and inferences about the above contraindicated foods for pregnancy for your reference. As my personal theory and experience improve and accumulate, I will continue to enrich and/or update this article.
1. Crabs, especially the claw nails of crabs
”Taste will be cold-eyed crab, see how long you run rampant!” I thought that the crab might be the only creature in this world that runs rampant except for humans, but it has the misfortune to be a delicacy in human meals. The crab is delicious, but it contains “biological information” (temporary borrowing of the word, you do not say it is pseudoscience ah) should also be horizontal, the ancients believe that eating it will “make the son born”. The modern people are not afraid of the fetal position is not correct, the big deal is to cut! But the crab claw nail “biological information” like its appearance, too sharp, eat it together with easy abortion, pregnant women better not eat crab claw nail. The clinic has seen some pregnant women bleed after eating crabs during early pregnancy.
2, turtle (snapper)
Turtle is already a well known tonic. I have personally experienced a number of postmenopausal women who, because of their children’s filial piety, have taken turtle continuously every day, resulting in abnormal endometrial hyperplasia and the reappearance of “menstruation”, which is what the people call “inverted blossoming”, a condition prone to endometrial malignancy.
However, the ancient saying that “eating a turtle will make the uterus short and damage the fetus” is very inexplicable and makes people think it is a superstition. There are pregnant women who do not believe in this, and I have heard of many cases where it was fine, but I also saw a woman who took snapper as a tonic during pregnancy, and her son’s neck was normal and not “shortened”, but the child was more than 10 years old and still had recurring colds, was prone to asthma, and had a disobedient personality.
3.Eel, loach
Pregnancy during the qi should be quiet and not too dynamic, so eels, loach, which are good at moving things should be eaten sparingly to avoid moving the fetal energy. And so on, snakes should not eat.
4, toad
Mainly refers to toads, but also includes other frogs, such as bullfrogs, toad oil (snow clam), toad oil is the oviduct of the northeast forest frog.
Toads are toxic, should not be taken during pregnancy, well understood, but frogs, toad oil can not eat seems to make sense. The ancients said that eating toads “so that the child mute”, this statement can not be explained, there must be people who think this is superstition. But I personally think, cold-blooded animals or eat less is better. I do not recommend eating snow clams to pregnant women, but also do not interfere with and do not evaluate the recommendations of other doctors on toad oil.
5, bird meat
The ancients said the bird meat, generally considered to be sparrow meat, but some people think that includes pigeon meat. Sparrow sex, so the ancients believe that pregnant women eat it, the offspring are prone to “unashamedly more obscene”, “obscene and shameless”. Sparrow is not sold in the market, so the chances of pregnant women eating it are rare. But pigeons are also sexually lascivious, and it seems that they should be eaten sparingly during pregnancy, so although others recommend eating pigeons during pregnancy, I never recommend it.
Modern people have no scruples, what to eat, which may be extramarital affairs, one-night stands, two or three milk and so one of the reasons for the world’s culture.
6, donkey meat, horse meat mule meat
The ancients believed that eating them may lead to “prolonged months of difficult childbirth”. I analysis, this is because the gestation period of donkeys and horses are longer than 280 days for humans, of which 340 days for horses and 365 days for donkeys, so you can not eat. But the question arises, because the gestation period of pigs is 114 days, shorter than that of humans, but the ancients did not say that eating pork can lead to premature birth. Then only this understanding makes sense – pregnant women can only eat creatures with a shorter and similar gestation period than humans (such as cows), not creatures with a longer gestation period than humans. Modern medicine has a way to induce birth, big deal, Caesarean section, it seems to be free from this taboo.
7, mule meat, and even genetically modified food
The mule, a hybrid alien, basically lost the ability to reproduce, our ancient sages must have perceived that this alien creature contains “abnormal information” is not suitable for pregnant women.
”Genetically modified foods”, which is now so controversial that we are free to baidu “genetically modified foods”.
I personally avoid eating them as much as possible, but of course I can’t check them in the canteen or outside restaurants. I don’t think pregnant women should eat it, do you?
Here is another article you can refer to, so you can make your own judgement.
”The sky has its own way of going against the ominous – the problem of genetic modification is not a scientific problem in the first place”
8. rabbit meat
Rabbit meat is cold, rabbit brain is warm, eat less during pregnancy is better. The “Health Family Treasure Obstetrics Preparation” has the “Shenxiao Xue Sheng Dan” and Fu Shan has the “Xue Sheng Rabbit Brain Pill”, both of which have “rabbit brain” as their main medicine. As for the saying that “the son lacks lips”, let’s put it aside for now. Greedy, bold, fearless people can eat, I would love to have some people to do this experiment, through a controlled study to test, in the end, the ancients said there is no reason.
9, goat liver, goat meat
”Eat goat meat, so that the son of many diseases” and “eat goat liver, so that the son of many er” is not good explanation, can only say, goat meat is hot, for the body heat pregnant women should be prohibited. Goat meat can not be eaten, sheep meat should be able to eat. Nomads have never eaten mutton, no abnormalities have been seen, but there is no testimony whether they eat lamb liver during pregnancy. Zhang Zhongjing has a recipe “Angelica Ginger Lamb Soup” for postpartum abdominal pain and other non-pregnancy cold abdominal pain, which is not taken during pregnancy.
10.Dog meat
”Eat dog meat, so that the son no sound”, can not explain, first suspicion set aside. There is an afterword: “North Koreans for the New Year —- want the life of the dog. I don’t know if North Koreans eat dog meat during pregnancy, although they speak less Chinese than the Chinese, huh, but will speak the Korean language. The dog meat is hot, so at least for the Yin deficiency body heat pregnant women should not eat.
11, coix seeds (rice kernel)
The coix seeds are both food and Chinese medicine, typical of the same source of medicine and food. The ancient “pregnancy taboo song” has this Chinese medicine, modern pharmacological research found that: can excite the uterus of rabbits and guinea pigs. Although the results of in vitro animal experiments are definitely not equivalent to the effects of oral human consumption, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I generally do not use this medicine in the prescriptions for pregnant women, and do not recommend pregnant women to eat barley porridge.
Gynecological inflammatory diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease, vaginitis belongs to the Chinese medicine called “bring down the disease”, I suggest that these people eat more rice kernel in the non-pregnant period, because rice kernel strengthens the spleen and clears heat and dampness, very suitable for gynecological inflammatory diseases. However, these people can consider stop taking it after pregnancy. Of course, if the condition requires, the doctor for the purpose of treating the disease, you can also consider the use of the so-called “there is therefore no perish, also no perish.
12, lychee, cinnamon, cinnamon bark
These three things are hot, hot body, during pregnancy should be taken less. The ancient people advocate “before the fetus should be cool”. The cold side of the body, it seems to be relaxed.
13, plum, plum, apricot, peach
There is a folk proverb: “peach full of people, apricot hurt people, plum tree buried under the dead”.
Peach, “with the rest of the diet recipes” said the peach: “tonic blood to live blood, produce fluid and clean heat, people fat and healthy, good color.”
Apricot, “Sun Hua Zi Ben Cao” says: “hot, poisonous.
Plum, plum, the Golden Horoscope: “elk fat and plum plum, if the expectant mother eats it, so that the child green blind, men hurt sperm.”
Plums, Sun Simiao said: “Do not eat more, people deficient.” The Dian Nan Ben Cao contains: “Do not eat more, damage the spleen and stomach.”
In summary, the above foods should be eaten less.
Hangzhou girls like to eat plum (made of plum to the preserves), after becoming a mother-to-be many people still plum not leave the mouth, which is not a good eating habits.
14, bean paste
The “Women’s Book of Good Recipes” contains: “bird meat and bean paste to eat, so that the son face born (black dry) (black had) black son”
What does the ancient “bean paste” specifically refer to? I think that pregnant women eating “bean paste” after the birth of a child’s face will be born freckles and other things? I can not explain this, doubtful to be examined.
15, ginger
Zigang, that is, the young ginger, containing ginger buds, as opposed to old ginger. Zigang has many ginger buds, the ancients worried that pregnant women will eat it will lead to the baby finger more birth, very “superstitious” feeling. However, when you need to eat ginger during pregnancy, such as heavy early pregnancy reaction, or even severe pregnancy vomiting, it is better to eat the old ginger without buds, why fight with ginger.
16.Dry carp
Sun Simiao said: carp can not be eaten with eggs during pregnancy; Li Shizhen said: can not eat carp, are unable to explain. It seems that Sun Simiao agreed to eat carp, at least when there is too much amniotic fluid and edema in pregnancy. In Hangzhou market, you can’t buy carp, so pregnant women in Hangzhou don’t have to worry about this.
17.Hawthorn
Hawthorn has the effect of eliminating food and removing blood stasis, eat less during pregnancy. Hawthorn is more suitable for postpartum, many postpartum remedies have this medicine, such as Liu Fengwu old Chinese medicine recommended the introduction of “postpartum biochemical soup” in the hawthorn.
18.Cold drinks
The Tang dynasty Sun Simiao said: “pregnancy eating ice syrup will never be born”, the Song dynasty Chen Ziming also recorded: “eating ice syrup will never be born”. Some people may see these two sentences will feel strange – do the Tang and Song dynasties also have a cold drink “ice cream”? This is how we underestimate the ancients.
Some people from the “Book of Songs” and other documents prove that as early as the Shang Dynasty, there is winter ice storage in the cellar for summer consumption, of course, only a small number of privileged class to enjoy exclusively. By the Tang and Song dynasties, cold drinks in summer had reached a commercial scale and were available to the rich and powerful.
In my clinic, there are often pregnant women who suffer from bleeding and other symptoms of pre-eclampsia due to the consumption of cold drinks. I have seen several cases of spontaneous miscarriage as a direct result of consuming cold drinks. Therefore, it is better for mothers-to-be not to eat cold drinks, especially if they have a cold spleen and stomach and are prone to diarrhea, as well as those who have a history of infertility with a cold uterus.
A few words written on the back.
Most people either have not heard of these taboos, or even if they know some, they will turn their mouths away, scoffing, and confidently consider these claims to be superstitious and unscientific, even though no one has done a controlled clinical study on them. In the premise that it is not confirmed by the “scientific method” and not falsified by the “scientific method”, it is “false”, “fake” and “superstition “It is also unscientific in itself.
My personal preference is that the above-mentioned foods are not eaten or eaten sparingly during pregnancy, especially during early pregnancy, and there are so many other foods to eat, so why focus on this little bit of questionable food and fight with them?
Once again, the above dietary taboos during pregnancy are mainly from ancient records, and I have summarized, adjusted, reviewed and analyzed them according to my own knowledge and understanding. Due to my current level of knowledge, there may be some inappropriate points. For some therapeutic purposes, some of the above-mentioned foods may be applied at your discretion, but you should follow the advice of your doctor.