Some ancient kidney-tonifying foods have excellent effects

Kidney deficiency requires kidney nourishment. The topic of kidney nourishment is not just new now. As early as the 5,000 years of Chinese culture, there are many records about kidney nourishment. Today, the editor has specially listed for you several simple and practical dietary therapy secrets.

Magic Porridge

Fang Yuan: The Fragments of Dunhuang Historical Materials

Ingredients: 500 grams of yam, 250 grams each of water chestnut and polished rice, or 100-150 grams of chopped leek.

Preparation: Steam the yam and peel it, steam the gorgon fruit and remove the shell, mash it into a paste, add the yam and gorgon fruit to the polished rice and cook it into porridge on a low heat, and eat it on an empty stomach. Adding chopped chives will make it more effective.

Efficacy: Replenishes deficiency and fatigue, strengthens the primordial Yang, replenishes Qi and strengthens the will.

Indications: Impotence, spermatorrhea, weight loss, fatigue, lack of energy, etc. caused by long-term illness or overwork.

Explanation of the recipe: Chinese yam is sweet and mild in nature. It nourishes qi and yin, and nourishes the spleen, lungs, and kidneys. The Shennong Bencaojing says that it "treats injuries in the middle and nourishes the weak. It nourishes the middle, nourishes qi and strength, grows muscles, and strengthens yin." The Compendium of Materia Medica states that it "benefits kidney qi and strengthens the spleen and stomach." It is indeed a good tonic. Gorgon fruit nourishes the kidney and consolidates essence. When combined with Chinese yam, it has both tonic and astringent effects, which can replenish qi and yin and stop spermatorrhea. This recipe is easy to consume and is commonly used.

Leek porridge

Fang Yuan: Compendium of Materia Medica

Ingredients: 30-60 grams of fresh leek or 5-10 grams of leek, 100 grams of polished rice, and a little refined salt.

Preparation: Take fresh leeks, wash and cut into small pieces, or grind the leeks into fine powder. First cook the polished rice into porridge. When the porridge is almost done, add the leeks or the fine powdered leeks and fine salt and cook into porridge.

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidneys and strengthens yang, consolidates essence and stops impotence, and strengthens the spleen and stomach.

Indications: Impotence, premature ejaculation, frequent urination, soreness and coldness in the waist and knees, cold pain in the abdomen, diarrhea, etc. caused by spleen and kidney yang deficiency.

Explanation of the recipe: Leek is also known as Qiyang grass and Zhuangyang vegetable. It is a food that warms the kidney yang. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Leek porridge warms the middle and warms the lower part." It can nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen yang and consolidate essence. It can be used together with polished rice to nourish the liver and kidney, warm the middle and strengthen the spleen. "Dietary Therapy Guide" records that "Leek porridge warms the middle and warms the lower part, and is mainly used to treat waist and knee coldness." People with the above symptoms can have better results if they take it for a long time.

Asparagus porridge

Fang Yuan: Records on Food and Drink

Ingredients: 15-20 grams of asparagus, 100 grams of polished rice, and a little rock sugar.

Preparation: First fry the asparagus root, remove the residue and take the juice, then pour in the polished rice and cook into porridge, wait until it is cooked, add a little rock sugar and cook for a while. Eat on an empty stomach.

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and reduces fire, moisturizes the lungs and nourishes the kidneys.

Indications: It is suitable for deficiency of Yin and excess of fire, accompanied by symptoms of fatigue, thirst, frequent drinking, red tongue with little coating, and little urine, etc.

Explanation of the prescription: This prescription is suitable for the symptoms of Yin deficiency and Yang hyperactivity, internal fire, accompanied by dry mouth and polydipsia. The asparagus cochinchinensis in the prescription can clear lung heat and nourish kidney Yin, which is a method of Daoyang Decoction in "Shishi Milu" to clear the upper and treat Yang hyperactivity. Japonica rice can nourish the stomach and produce body fluid.

People usually choose winter to nourish the kidneys because the temperature is low in winter. We often drink porridge, which warms the body and increases nutrition. The above kidney-nourishing foods can achieve the effect of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang for men. In fact, not only men need kidney nourishment, but some women also need kidney nourishment. In the cold winter, make some warm porridge and nourish the kidneys together as a couple.