Can the Rice-paper Plant (Tetrapanax papyrifer) Be Eaten After Being Cooked in Pig Trotter or Crucian Carp Soup, and How to Make Rice-paper Plant Stewed Pork Ribs

For new mothers, breastfeeding is highly desired, but sometimes milk supply is not enough, and at this point they think of ways to promote and boost lactation, such as drinking rice-paper plant pig trotter soup or rice-paper plant crucian carp soup. However, can the rice-paper plant cooked in pig trotter soup or crucian carp soup actually be eaten? Can rice-paper plant be used to stew pork ribs? What exactly is the specific method?

 

 

Rice-paper plant is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. It is the stem pith of Tetrapanax papyrifer, a plant in the Araliaceae family. It enters the lung and stomach meridians and clears heat and promotes diuresis; it promotes lactation and is used for strangury with painful urination; difficult urination; edema; jaundice; damp-warm disease; scanty dark urine; postpartum insufficient milk; amenorrhea; and leukorrhea. Its most common use is probably for postpartum lactation promotion.

 

Therefore, rice-paper plant belongs to the category of lactation-promoting medicines. Postpartum women can take it, and it has no effect on milk quality and will not cause side effects in newborns. It is generally put into various soups and cooked for eating. Crucian carp soup, pig trotter soup, and pork rib soup can all use it. It is best to rotate among different soups so that the nutrition in the milk will be more comprehensive.

 

Since milk contains 90% water, it is necessary to drink more soups and fluids, such as chicken soup, pig trotter soup, crucian carp and tofu soup, rice-paper plant crucian carp soup, and bone and vegetable soup.

 

Many mothers actually have an urgent need when drinking this soup, but that does not mean the more they drink, the more effective it is. It can be eaten three times a day, but it is best to have a balanced diet. Drinking this soup at lunch and dinner is enough, that is, drinking it twice a day. Too much is not good either because of excess nutrition. Once milk supply is sufficient, mothers can switch to drinking other soups, because only in this way can the nutrition the baby absorbs be richer.

 

So, what are the specific methods for making rice-paper plant pig trotter soup and rice-paper plant crucian carp soup?

 

 

I. Rice-paper plant pig trotter soup

 

Ingredients: pig trotter (pig front trotter) 750G, rice-paper plant 25G, Angelica dahurica 25G, Vaccaria segetalis 25G, Fangdangshen 25G, Angelica sinensis 40G, Biejia 50G, Astragalus propinquus 30G, salt to taste.

 

Method:

 

1. Wash the pig trotter and remove the hair, put it in cold water and blanch to remove the blood; rinse with cold water, drain and set aside;

 

2. Wash all medicinal herbs, drain the water and set aside;

 

3. Put the medicinal herbs together with the pig trotter into boiled water, and use the soup mode of a rice cooker to simmer for about two hours;

 

4. Add salt when eating. The pig trotter can be eaten together, and the medicinal herbs can be discarded.

 

Tips:

 

This soup is a bit fatty and greasy, so when drinking it you can skim off some of the oil!

 

 

II. Rice-paper plant crucian carp soup

 

Ingredients: 2 crucian carp, 3 grams of rice-paper plant, 4 slices of ginger.

 

Method:

 

1. Remove the scales from the crucian carp, open the belly, remove the internal organs, gills, and the black membrane in the abdomen, then rinse clean in clear water;

 

2. Put oil in a flat-bottomed pan, and after the oil is hot, put in the crucian carp to pan-fry. After one side is fried, turn it over and fry again;

 

3. Put the fried fish into a slow cooker, add ginger slices, pour in a kettle of boiling water, add rice-paper plant and simmer for 3 hours.

 

Tips:

 

1. The crucian carp must be cleaned thoroughly. Both the gills and the black membrane in the abdomen must be removed, otherwise the stewed soup will have a strong fishy smell;

 

2. To stew a milky white soup, the crucian carp should first be pan-fried in oil, then boiling water should be poured in for stewing;

 

3. Just add a few grams of rice-paper plant each time.

 

 

III. Rice-paper plant stewed pork rib soup

 

Ingredients: 500 grams of pork ribs, 6 grams of rice-paper plant.

 

Method: Put one jin of pork ribs and 6 grams of rice-paper plant together into a clay pot, add cold water until the ingredients are covered, and stew together until only one bowl remains. Be sure not to add salt. If it is truly hard to drink, you can add a little soy sauce for seasoning.

 

How to eat: Eat the meat and drink the soup, once a day, for three consecutive days.