Soups after a birth › Around the second week
Pork kidney and sesame oil noodles with rice wine
The tradition usually waits until about day 8
“Getting your appetite back is what matters.”
What the tradition says
The tradition holds that this is 增加免疫力、益腎補血, that it strengthens immunity, benefits the kidney and supplements blood. The kidney-benefits-kidney reasoning is doctrine of signatures; no mechanism was located.
After a caesarean
Rice wine and sesame-oil-and-wine dishes are said to inflame a caesarean wound. Sources advise delaying 米酒 by 7 to 10 days, and state 產後7天內傷口若有紅腫、疼痛時，禁止吃麻油酒煮食物.
Ingredientsserves 2
Method
- Score the kidney and soak it in water.
- Fry the ginger in black sesame oil, add stock and wine, and poach the kidney briefly.
- Cook the 麵線 separately and ladle the broth and kidney over.
Also cooked then
Information only. This page records a food tradition and is not medical advice. Recovery differs for everyone. If you are breastfeeding, recovering from a caesarean, taking medication, or feeling unwell, speak to your doctor, midwife or a registered practitioner first. Full statement