The invention relates to a food for promoting lactation, which belongs to the technical field of food processing. According to the theoretical principle of Chinese medicine symptomatic treatment, oyster meat, carp, hen, mutton, hoantchy roots, radix codonopsitis, longan aril, angelica, vaccaria segetalis, black sesame and the like are used to be cooked into soup, and the soup is eaten regularly, so that postpartum wet nurses can be supplemented with the corresponding nutritional energy, qi and blood are abundant, and viscera organs normally work, thereby naturally promoting the normal secretion of milk. The food has the characteristics of bright color, delicious taste and rich flavor, is not greasy to be retained in the stomach, is not cold and not dry and is easy to absorb, thus being an ideal nourishing food; and puerperae, wet nurses and physically weak people get strong soon after regularly eating the food.