Patient's question:
Insufficient water, the family members prepared some traditional Chinese medicine, which can be used for cooking soup. The ingredients include Poria (Fuling) and others, mainly used for boosting milk production. When cooking the soup, one dose of the medicine was divided into two parts. First, half of the medicine was cooked with pork ribs together in a pressure cooker. I have a few questions: For this kind of milk-boosting traditional Chinese medicine, can it be discarded after being cooked repeatedly in the pot many times in a day? Can it be cooked in a pressure cooker? The baby is 6 months old, is it still effective to boost milk production at this stage?Doctor's answer:
Breast milk is the best food for babies, unmatched by any other food. Many mothers face insufficient milk production, and new moms are often worried about it. The important usage is fine, provided the traditional Chinese medicine you prepare is correct. In clinical practice, experts can use a pressure cooker to decoct traditional Chinese medicine, which saves time and effort without any harm. Generally, decocting traditional Chinese medicine three times can extract most of its efficacy, so the herbs decocted three times have little effect and can be discarded.