Edema causes
uncomfortable feeling and sore for pregnant women.
In
pregnancy, women will feel that their body gets edema, especially face, hands, feet
and ankles. Normally, this phenomenon is normal, it isn’t dangerous; however,
it makes pregnant women feel uncomfortable.
1.
Soup with carp fresh ginger
Materials:
·
15 grams of fresh ginger
·
15 grams of truffle
·
10 grams of dried tangerine skin
·
1carp about 500 grams
Way to
do:
·
Carp is scaled and viscera are cleaned.
·
Kinds of medicine are washed cleanly, they are covered by clean
cloth. Cook them with carp in 1 hour.
·
Eliminate medicine, eat carp and drink soup and eat when you feel
hungry.
2.
Smell seed
Materials:
·
3 spoons of smell seed that is dried in a pan
·
500ml of water
Way to
do:
·
Put smell seed and water into saucepan, boil them until they are
dry and the rest is a half, stop cooking.
·
Mothers use this water to drink 3 times a day, drinking in some
days will reduce edema.
·
It is good if mothers drink the whole water of smell seed. If you
feel difficult to drink, you can put a little palm sugar. You will feel that
its taste is like vegetation tea, so it’s easier to drink.
Smell seed can reduce edema for pregnant women’s feet.
3.
Soup of carp and dried ginger
Materials:
·
15 grams of dried ginger
·
30 grams of medlar seeds
·
A carp about 500grams
Way to
do:
·
Eliminate scale and viscera of carp
·
Wash the rest medicines clean, cover them with a clean cloth and
cook with carp in about 1 hour
·
Eliminate pack of medicine, eat fish. Drink soup and eat when you
feel hungry
4.
Truffle cake, ginger and cinnamon
Materials:
·
3 grams of dried ginger
·
3 grams of cinnamon
·
30 grams of truffle without shell
Way to
do:
·
Ginger and cinnamon are ground to dust
·
Mix 3 things together, add a little of wheat flour and white
sugar
·
Make them into cakes, then put them into pot and steam them
·
Eat cakes, 15 grams for each time
5.
Water of ginger bark and astragalus
Materials:
·
Shell of fresh ginger and shell of waxy pumpkin
·
30 grams for each type
·
30 grams of truffle shell
·
30 grams of astragalus
·
5 jujubes
Way to do:
·
Put the above medicines into 500ml water, cook it until it is
only 300ml
·
Eliminate waste, pour a little of white sugar, divide into 2
times and drink in day
Fresh ginger shell is also an effective medicine to treat
edema.
6.
Ginger sauce, apple, longan and honey
Materials:
·
250 grams of jujube
·
250 grams of longan
·
250ml of honey
·
2 tablespoon of ginger juice
Way to
do:
·
Eliminate seed of jujube, wash them, put them into aluminum pot
together with longan.
·
Add more water, boil about 7 parts, then pour ginger juice and
honey, boil, stir, cool it, put it into stored pot and you can eat regularly
7.
Water of corn silk
Boil corn
silk with water, then use it instead of daily water. It can also help them
reduce edema clearly for pregnant women.
In addition,
water of corn silk is cool, so it can help pregnant women prevent disease about
inflammation of urinary track.
8.
Snake-head and waxy pumpkin
Materials:
·
A snake-head about 250 grams
·
500 grams of waxy pumpkin
·
60 grams of small red bean
·
3 small spring onions
Way to
do:
·
Make all of the materials clean
·
Put all of them into pot, cook tenderly without salt
·
Eat in day and eat continuously in 3-4 days, edema will reduce.
·
However, if mothers don’t like to eat snake-head, they only need to
cook about 80 grams of waxy, small red bean without salt, eating this dish
instead of vegetable can also cure this edema.
9.
Dill seed
Materials:
·
2 cups of water
·
1 spoon of palm sugar
·
2 spoons of dill seed
Way to do:
·
Pour water, palm sugar and dill seed into pot and then boil
·
Boil it until the rest part is a half
·
Use this water to drink 3 times in a day, it will help pregnant
women protect their feet from edema.
10.
Hot lemon juice
Make a spoon
of lemon (or orange juice) into a cup of warm water and drink every day. This
way is very effective to reduce edema of feet to pregnant women during
pregnancy.
11.
Sesame
In
pregnancy, sesame also helps reduce edema of feet. Pour 15-20 cooked sesames
into a cup of warm water and drink it in the morning when you haven’t eaten
anything yet.
Besides
pregnant women can make sugar that is extracted from palm oil with warm water
and drink it every day.
12.
Pumpkin
20 grams of
dried pumpkin seed, rob shell and take nucleus (keep green membrane outside
seed), grind, add more boiling water and white sugar that are enough to use.
Pregnant women should make and drink in the early morning in the late afternoon
when you feel hungry. Eating continuously in 3 days will bring effectiveness.
Pumpkin’s seeds can also cure edema.
13.
Watermelon
Watermelon
contains a lot of valuable nutrients, especially it is rich in minerals such as
calcium, Fe, Magnesium, folic acid that is a vitamin group B. It is necessary
for creating blood with effect of reducing fever, diuretic detoxify for liver.
It is good for pregnant women.
Watermelon
is good for detoxifying, urinating, reducing inflammation. Eating regularly
will increase excreting. As a result, it will eliminate redundant water of
body. It will help reduce edema in feet of pregnant women.
Notes
When
pregnant women have edema, they should limit eating salt foods because a lot of
edema at pregnant women is relate to eating salt foods. So, pregnant women
should reduce the amount of salt that is brought into body and drink enough
water to help body detoxify outside, avoid edema to feet and hands. Moreover,
you should avoid waters that contain alcohol or caffeine.
