Kidney-tonifying and Yang-strengthening soup can strengthen your kidneys at home

The kidney is an important detoxification organ in the human body. Once problems occur, it will induce various physical diseases. Therefore, maintaining the health of the kidney is a must for health care. There is a saying among the people that "medicine supplements are not as good as food supplements, and food supplements are not as good as soup supplements." The following editor introduces several kidney-nourishing and yang-nourishing soups that can effectively nourish the body, strengthen the kidneys, and have no side effects.

1: Cistanche and Lamb Bone Soup Ingredients: 30g Cistanche, 1kg of lamb spine. Method: Wash and slice Cistanche, smash the lamb spine and set aside, wash the scallion. Put the lamb spine into a pot, add water, scallion, and rice wine, boil over high heat, simmer for 2-3 hours until the soup is ready, add salt and other seasonings and it is ready to eat. Efficacy: This recipe is very effective in treating kidney deficiency, essence deficiency, waist and knee cold pain, and weak tendons and bones. It is often used by people on the Mongolian grasslands. Sheep spine can nourish the kidney and essence, strengthen tendons and bones; Cistanche, also known as "Cistanche", can nourish kidney yang, drive away cold, and benefit essence and blood. It has the reputation of "desert ginseng" and is very good for men's health.

2: Ingredients: 50g black beans, 200g spare ribs. Method: It is best to soak the black beans in clean water overnight; wash the spare ribs and cut them into pieces; put the spare ribs in a pot with cold water and boil over high heat; after boiling, cook over high heat for about 30 minutes, skim off the foam; add black beans and simmer for about 2 hours, and finally add salt to taste. Efficacy: Black beans are mild in nature and sweet in taste. They have the functions of activating blood and clearing heat, and replenishing deficiency and dark hair. Spare ribs also have high nutritional value and can nourish yin and strengthen yang, and benefit essence and blood. Therefore, drinking this black bean and spare rib soup regularly can nourish the kidneys and blood, and has a certain nourishing effect on hair.

3: Seahorse, walnut and lean meat soup Ingredients: 250g lean pork, 5-10g seahorse, 15-30g walnut meat, 4 red dates. Method: Wash the lean pork, cut it into pieces, blanch it in boiling water to remove the blood and set aside; wash the seahorse, walnut meat, and red dates (pitted) and set aside. Put all the ingredients into a sand pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, simmer for 1-1.5 hours, and season. Efficacy: This soup has the effect of warming the kidney and strengthening yang. It is especially suitable for people with yang deficiency or the elderly with asthma accompanied by worsening asthma and fatigue when moving; the elderly with sore waist and knees; or men with low libido.

4: Seaweed and shrimp soup Ingredients: 20g seaweed (dry), 50g shrimp, 2 slices of ginger, a little chopped green onion. Method: Tear the seaweed into small pieces, soak it in clean water, remove impurities, and dry the water; soak the shrimp in warm water for a while and wash it. Add 1250 ml (about 5 bowls) of clean water and ginger to the pot, boil it over high heat, add the shrimp and stir it for a while, add the seaweed, stir it for a while, add chopped green onion, appropriate amount of salt and sesame oil. Efficacy: It has the effects of softening and dispersing lumps, nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang, and nourishing the face and darkening hair. Men should drink more of this soup for health.

5: Three-seed loach soup Ingredients: 200g live loach, 15g each of leek seeds, wolfberries, and dodder, 600ml water, a little salt and MSG. Method: Boil the loach in boiling water, cut open the abdomen to remove the internal organs, intestines, etc., wash the leek seeds, wolfberries, and dodder, put the leek seeds and dodder into a gauze bag, tie the mouth tightly, then put the loach, wolfberries, and gauze bag into the pot, add water, boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat until about 300ml of water remains, take out the bag, add salt and MSG. Eat the meat soup once a day, and take it for 10 consecutive days as a course of treatment. Efficacy: It has the effects of warming the middle and replenishing qi, nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang. It is suitable for people with impotence, premature ejaculation and anemia.

6: Cordyceps sinensis duck soup Ingredients: 15g Cordyceps sinensis, 1 old male duck. Method: Put the Cordyceps sinensis into the clean duck belly, add water and stew until cooked, and then it can be eaten after seasoning. Efficacy: It has the effect of treating kidney deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea, waist and knee pain, chronic cough and asthma, and physical weakness after illness.

7: Eucommia ulmoides and Dangshen Soup Ingredients: pigeon, Eucommia ulmoides, Astragalus membranaceus, Dangshen, old ginger. Method: Kill the pigeon, clean it up, and blanch it in boiling water. Wash Eucommia ulmoides, Astragalus membranaceus, and Dangshen; wash and slice the old ginger for later use. Put the pigeon, Eucommia ulmoides, Astragalus membranaceus, Dangshen, and old ginger into a boiling water pot, boil over high heat, then simmer for about 3 hours, add salt to taste. Efficacy: Eucommia ulmoides is a good medicine for kidney tonic, which can relieve the symptoms of sore waist and knees, fatigue and spermatorrhea. Pigeon meat and pigeon eggs are rich in protein, chondroitin, vitamins, iron, zinc and other nutrients. It has the effect of kidney tonic, replenishing essence, warming yang and invigorating qi. Eucommia, Dangshen and Pigeon Soup nourishes the kidneys, strengthens yang, and strengthens tendons and bones.

8: Astragalus and Chinese wolfberry stewed pigeon Ingredients: 30g Astragalus, 30g Cypress seeds, 1 pigeon. Method: Drown the pigeon in water, scald to remove the hair and internal organs, add water, and cook the three ingredients together until the pigeon meat is cooked, season and eat the pigeon meat and Chinese wolfberry, and drink the soup. Take twice a week for 3 weeks. Efficacy: This food therapy is suitable for men with impotence due to deficiency of both heart and spleen.

9: Cistanche, wolfberry and lamb kidney soup Ingredients: 30g Cistanche, 15g wolfberry (available at Chinese medicine stores), 2 pairs of lamb kidneys, 250g lamb, 5 slices of ginger. Method: Soak and wash the herbs; remove the fascia from the lamb kidneys, cut them open and wash them, wash the lamb, cut them into pieces, and blanch them in boiling water with angelica and ginger wine, and wash them. Put them in a clay pot, add 2500ml of water (about 10 bowls), boil over high heat, then simmer for 2 hours, and add salt. Efficacy: Cistanche, wolfberry and lamb kidney soup has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang, warming the spleen and stomach, and is one of the dietary soups for those with yang deficiency in winter.

10: Curculigo and Shrimp Soup Ingredients: 20g Curculigo, 250g fresh shrimp, 2 slices ginger, some salt. Method: Wash Curculigo with clean water. Shell and devein the prawns and wash them. Chop the ginger. Put the above ingredients and salt into a pot, add some water and cook over medium heat for 1 hour. This recipe can be taken once a week. Effect: This recipe has the effect of warming the kidney and strengthening yang, especially suitable for men with symptoms such as kidney deficiency, yang congestion, lack of energy, and soreness of waist and knees.

11: Walnut Chicken Soup Ingredients: 1 rooster, 2 taels of walnut kernels, ginger, green onion, cooking wine, appropriate amount. Method: Wash all the ingredients and put them into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, then simmer for two hours, add salt and seasoning. Efficacy: Warms the kidney and replenishes yang. It is suitable for people with insufficient kidney yang such as yang deficiency, swelling, weak limbs, fear of cold, frequent urination, etc.

12: Seahorse and red dates stewed with lean meat Ingredients: 6 grams of seahorse, 5 red dates (core removed), 250 grams of lean pork, 3 slices of ginger. Method: Wash the lean pork, cut it into pieces, put it into boiling water to remove the blood, put it into a casserole, add the washed seahorse, red dates, and ginger, boil it over high heat, simmer it over low heat for 1-1.5 hours, add refined salt and serve. Efficacy: This soup has the effect of protecting the liver and kidney, and benefiting the essence and blood. It is especially suitable for the elderly and the weak who have fatigue, knee soreness, frequent urination at night, etc., or men with impotence and cold sperm, and women with symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, chills, low blood, and cold pain in the lower abdomen after childbirth.