Bai Ling

In the 2004 films, Three Extremities, the actress Bay Ling Chinese raised eyebrows playing a non authorized midwife that does the pellets of dough of the fetus and the aborted placentas. She sold them to the rich women that believed that consuming would reverse them the major signs.

Although Bay that claims itself to be disgusted by the idea of food placentas, there are rumors in profusion of other fame that it do in the hope to improve their health while regaining a young tinted one.

The singaporean actor Andew Seow, 36, for the one, awaited years to obtain its hands in a placenta. It said "I saw people that it took, and I believe that it works". It says that it heard histories that young to appear the actress Linen ching-hsia that Taiwanese, 53, was taught by his mother "to cut it in split and the eats with the porridge". Then there is another actress of a said person, that, after delivering, had "the great skin, a great chest and a great end" because she is known to have eaten the organ that is "a lot of amino acids and of proteins", it says.

Despite being vegetarian, Seow does not back up to the think about to consume something that, when believed, resembles one to sticky and bloody liver. "A placenta", it says, "goes out naturally with the baby, if it is not used, it is just wasted".

The origins of Type

A placenta is a rich one in organ in the sanguine vessels that develops in the female mammals during pregnancy. It clothes the uterine wall and partially envelop the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. To the full term, the this is almost 18 long cm and 5 thick cm. It is expelled during the birth child, forming the party of the after the birth. His function is to transfer oxygen and nutriments of the mother to the fetus. It relaxs also dioxyde of carbon and the waste of the fetus by the umbilical cord to be disposed by mother.

Dr Peter Chews, an obstetrician of consultant and the gynecologist, says that although the people talked about "curling, drying of the and the food placentas" during years, its patients ask rarely to keep the them. It says: "The placenta is full of hormones, therefore theoretically, they should improve the complexion, although there is not medical proof to support this".

As for the secondary dangerous effect possibility to consume it, it says "there is not of poorly, visionary that the this is your own organ of the body". But to be on the sure side, it recommends cooking the placenta before the consumption.

Dr Douglas Ngo, an obstetrician gynecologist, said Women of KK and the Hospital of the Children (KKH) "had a placenta fridge of which them contained were sold to the cosmetic businesses". KKH is incapable to verify its complaints but a spokesperson says that if it existed, it probably would have been "a long and long time there is". Dr Ngo claims the stopped practice after 'VIH and the other viruses are lit the scene ".

It is worried of the mothers consuming their placenta, to name it "limit cannibalism". It says: "The women will go to the big lengths for beauty but there are other manners to attain the good skin".

Force life

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) the experts claim the human placenta was eaten by the Chinese for 2500 years.

Dr the Dear low Level Ling, a medical director to a medical confirmed institution, says "the Chinese believes that it contains" qi" (Chinese for the life force) and the uses as a remedy for an entire range of problems as the lethargy, rejuvenating aging the skin and promote the production of milk of breast".

To Singapore, the human placenta of China is easily available in a dried form of the Chinese medical lobbies.

Professor Xu Yi June, a doctor of a Center of famous TCM, prescribes consuming 2G to 3G of pulverized placenta daily to increase the circulation of fertility and blood and do the more resistant body to the disease.

You can find it also used ordinarily in the beauty parlors in the various forms. In a certain parlor of beauty in the Arcade of Races of Hotel of Mandarin Chinese, it offers a tonic one of health, the gasoline of the face and the tonic one of hair said to contain the human placenta. Another major chain of thermal station proclaims his face placenta that uses the sheep placenta as "an alternate one to Botox".

According to a spokesperson for the Authority of Sciences of Health (HSA), "the placenta of the human origin and animal currently is allowed in the cosmetic products". Nevertheless, "the merchants of eye and of dental products are demanded to furnish proof supporting security". But as the creams of the face and mask face are considered "the low risk" the products, they are not dependent to the approval of HSA.

The administration of Drug of Food (FDA) classifies to the United States extracts it animal of the organs as the placenta as potentially dangerous.

Of 12 doctors spoke with, only two acknowledged to prescribe the treatments of extract of placenta, although the one does not manage injections.
While most of the doctors avoided commenting on on the placenta and its cosmetic presumed merits, five, including Dr Chua June Jin, an aesthetic surgeon of consultant one to Elizabeth of Mount Centers Medical, consent that there is proof not enough the medical one to show that it works.

Therapy comparing placenta to the nest of the birds and the snake oil, Dr Chua says: "Some people can recommend it, but if the it was powerful such a ingredient, there would be people studying it in the big depth".

A doctor, that prefers to remain anonymous for the fear of violent reaction of the other doctors, had to inject the placenta gasoline human by the request in the small quantities on the face and the body. But "the patient must do to enter his own provision". It did not see also unfavorable secondary effect consequently. It believes that the only reason the treatment is controversial is not because the it is dangerous, but because "it was not taught in the medical school, but simply evolved with the medicine practice".

Dr Wong Yok Meng, that specialize in detoxification and preventive medicine against the ageing, prescribed the treatments of human placenta for the passed 10 years.

Although it says that it does not inject the extracts of placenta directly in the body, it prescribes the treatments of extract of placenta and human oral to rejuvenate the skin of its patients, most of that are female and aged above 40.

It observes that the treatment "is not ridded wrinkles, but the assistance to give a young look to the skin by smoothening well the lines and cell renewal growing".

A dosage of the month of costs of extract of oral placenta around the S$500, while a current solution for the face costs around the S$100. Dr Wong says that it did not see negative effects in any of its patients.

But a worry Dr Joyce Lim, a famous dermatologist, has with the usage of extract of placenta in the injections and of medicines is that it implies "the transmission of genetic equipment and can cause allergies".

In fact, in a case retrieved by the paper of Shubun of Yomiuri January last, a Japanese woman in its years 40 developed the disease of sharp liver after having is injected with the gasoline of human placenta to a center of beauty of Tokyo.

Maybe, the next time before you consider to consume this curious delicacy, stop and to think if the is the value risking your health all in the beauty name.