What to drink in the hot summer? Five kinds of nourishing soups to nourish the kidneys

In the hot summer, do your irregular life and diminished appetite often make you feel weak and tired? This is your body sending you a warning: it's time to nourish your kidneys! Today, the editor brings you some delicious and nutritious health-preserving soups, which can not only increase your appetite this summer, but also nourish your kidneys.

1. Adenophora and Lily Duck Soup

Ingredients: 30g Adenophora chinensis, 30g lily, 150g fat duck meat, appropriate amounts of salt and MSG.

Specific method: Wash the duck first and cut it into small pieces; wash the lily. Put the duck, lily and adenophora into a sand pot, add appropriate amount of water, simmer over low heat, and when the duck is cooked, add a little salt and MSG to taste, and drink the soup and eat the meat.

Efficacy: nourishes yin and clears heat, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. Suitable for dry cough, severe cough with hemoptysis, low voice, irritability and thirst, dry mouth and throat, fatigue and shortness of breath, red tongue with little fluid, low fever in the afternoon, etc. caused by lung yin deficiency.

2. Stewed Pig Liver with Scrophularia

Ingredients: 15 grams of Scrophularia, 500 grams of fresh pork liver, vegetable oil, soy sauce, ginger, green onions, white sugar, cooking wine, and wet starch as appropriate.

Specific method: wash the pig liver, put it into the pot together with Scrophularia, add appropriate amount of water, simmer for about 1 hour, take out the pig liver, cut into small pieces for later use, put vegetable oil into the wok, add the washed and chopped ginger and green onion, stir-fry for a while, then put in the pig liver slices, mix soy sauce, white sugar and cooking wine, add appropriate amount of original soup, use wet starch to collect transparent soup, pour it into the pig liver slices, stir evenly.

Efficacy: It can nourish yin, blood, and improve eyesight. It is suitable for dry eyes, tears in the wind, dizziness, blurred vision, decreased vision, night blindness caused by liver yin and blood deficiency, and chronic hepatitis due to liver yin and blood deficiency.

3. Lotus Seed and Pork Tripe Soup

Ingredients: 1 pork belly, 50 grams of lotus root meat, appropriate amounts of sesame oil, salt, ginger, green onion and garlic.

Specific method: first wash the pig's stomach, soak the lotus seeds (core removed) in water, then put them into the pig's stomach and sew them with thread. Put the pig's stomach into a pot and stew it with clean water until cooked through. Then take it out and let it cool. Cut the pig's stomach into even thin strips and put them into a plate with the lotus seeds. Mix the sesame oil, salt, green onion, garlic and the pork stomach strips.

Efficacy: Suitable for symptoms such as loss of appetite, tasteless mouth, shortness of breath, thin body, weakness in limbs, indigestion, abdominal distension after eating, loose stools, edema and ascites, as well as chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic hepatitis, etc. due to spleen and stomach qi deficiency.

4. Gorgon Fruit and Lotus Root Duck Soup

Ingredients: 10g Tribulus terrestris, 50g Euryale ferox, 100g lotus root, 10g dragon bone, 1000g duck meat, 10g oyster, 100g fresh lotus seed, 8g salt.

Method: Wash the white tribulus, lotus whiskers, dragon bones, and oysters, put them into a cotton bag, and tie the bag tightly. Boil the duck meat in boiling water, take it out and wash it; wash the lotus seeds and water chestnuts, and drain them. Put the duck meat, cotton bag, water chestnuts, and lotus seeds into a pot, add 7 bowls of water, boil over high heat, turn to low heat and continue to simmer for 40 minutes. Add salt to taste.

Efficacy: This soup has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and consolidating essence.

5. Radish, bamboo shoots and shrimp soup

Ingredients: 250g river shrimp, 100g green radish, 60g bamboo shoots, a little chopped red pepper, some salt, 3g MSG, 4g ginger.

Preparation: Wash and split the shrimps; clean the bamboo shoots and cut them into sections; peel the radish, wash and cut into pieces; wash and slice the ginger. Put the stew pot on the fire, add appropriate amount of water, put in the ginger slices, shrimps, bamboo shoots and radish, and simmer over low heat until cooked. Add salt and MSG, and sprinkle with appropriate amount of chopped red pepper.

Effect: replenishing qi and essence. The river shrimp is delicious and can nourish the kidney, nourish yin and essence; green radish can strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and essence. Drinking this soup regularly can help enhance sperm production.

Are these delicious and nutritious health-preserving soups making you salivate?