Patient's question:
Insufficient water, the family members prepared some traditional Chinese medicine, which can be used for making soup. The ingredients include substances like Poria, mainly for stimulating milk production. When making the soup, one dose of the medicine was divided into two parts. First, half of the medicine was stewed with pork ribs, using a pressure cooker. I have a few questions: For this kind of milk-stimulating traditional Chinese medicine, can it be repeatedly stewed in the pot multiple times a day and then discarded? Can it be stewed in a pressure cooker? Is it effective to stimulate milk production at this stage when the baby is 6 months old?Doctor's answer:
Breast milk is the best food for babies, unmatched by any other food. Many mothers face insufficient breast milk, and new moms can only worry about it. The important usage is fine, as long as the traditional Chinese medicine you prepare is correct. In clinical diagnosis, 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.