Taking kidney-tonifying supplements every day? Not necessarily safe or effective!

Online shopping is very popular nowadays. According to sellers, compared with other products, health supplements always rank at the top of online sales. This may be related to men's kidney-tonifying. Many men insist on taking health supplements every day to make their kidneys stronger. As a result, they take a lot of them and spend a lot of money, but the effect is not satisfactory. Why is this?

Health products are not necessarily safe and effective

Health supplements mainly use promoting hormones or some drugs related to the treatment of kidney disease. It should be regulated through food, so that it can have a better therapeutic effect on kidney disease. Health supplements are good in terms of efficacy, but they are not necessarily safe and effective.

These Chinese medicines are good for kidney health

1. Ho Shou Wu

Li Shizhen once said: "Polygonum multiflorum can nourish blood and benefit liver, consolidate essence and benefit kidney, strengthen tendons and bones, and blacken hair. It is a good tonic medicine, and its effect is better than Rehmannia glutinosa and Asparagus cochinchinensis." It is suitable for people with kidney deficiency, premature graying hair, weak waist and knees, sore tendons and bones, men with spermatorrhea, and women with leucorrhea.

2. Wolfberry

It is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It has the functions of nourishing the kidney and liver, improving the essence and eyesight, strengthening the tendons and bones, eliminating waist pain, and can prolong life if taken for a long time. It is especially suitable for people with kidney deficiency in middle-aged and elderly people. As recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Wolfberry can nourish the kidney and improve the essence. When the water is abundant, the bones are strong. It can also cure thirst, blurred vision, waist pain and knee pain."

3. Gorgon Fruit

It is mild in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, and has the dual effects of benefiting the kidney and strengthening the body, and nourishing the spleen and stopping diarrhea. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" calls it "a medicine for the spleen and kidney". The "New Compilation of Materia Medica" says: "Gorgon fruit not only benefits the essence, but also can nourish the kidney and astringent the essence. It can be used together with yam, grind each into powder, and take it with rice every day." People with kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, leucorrhea, incontinence or frequent urination should eat it regularly.

4. Eucommia ulmoides

It is warm in nature, sweet and slightly spicy in taste, can nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the tendons and bones, and is most suitable for patients with back pain, weak feet and knees caused by kidney deficiency, paralysis of the lower limbs in children, and habitual abortion caused by kidney deficiency in women.