What herbs are used in kidney-tonifying soup?

In today's life, many people suffer from kidney deficiency. When kidney deficiency occurs, everyone will think of many ways to nourish the kidney. Among the many kidney nourishing methods, the method of using food supplement is people's favorite and most acceptable kidney nourishing method. Many medicinal herbs have the effect of nourishing the kidneys. When taking dietary supplements, you can put some Chinese medicinal herbs in the soup and stew them together. It is not only nourishing but also delicious.

Kidney tonification is only necessary when kidney deficiency occurs, but this process cannot be rushed and must be adjusted slowly. The medicinal ingredients used in soups to tonify the kidney and strengthen yang generally refer to traditional Chinese medicines such as deer antler and yam. The main manifestations of kidney deficiency include insomnia, low back pain, premature ejaculation and impotence in men, amenorrhea or infertility due to uterine cold in women. Among the foods we eat on a daily basis, sesame, corn, lamb bones, pig kidneys, sea bass, mulberries, chestnuts, walnuts, yam, sea cucumbers, etc. are all good ingredients for kidney tonification. Traditional Chinese medicines for kidney tonification include deer antler, yam, epimedium, cinnamon, eucommia, Cistanche, Cuscuta australis, Cordyceps sinensis, and Polygonum multiflorum.

When taking these Chinese medicines, please pay attention to the following points:

1. Get more rest and don’t stay up late at night;

2. Men should smoke and drink less;

3. Eat less irritating food;

4. Avoid eating raw, cold or benign food;

5. If you have a cold, do not take Chinese medicine first, otherwise it will greatly reduce the effectiveness of the medicine.

Several soups with medicinal materials to nourish the kidney and strengthen yang:

1. Double ear soup.

It can not only nourish the kidneys, but is also suitable for patients with asthma, hypertension, and vascular sclerosis. Soak the black fungus and white fungus in warm water, then clean them and put them in a bowl, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, and steam them in a pot.

2. Mutton soup.

Wash the mutton, chop it into pieces, put it into a pot of water and boil it. When the meat is cooked, add wolfberry and continue to boil until the mutton is cooked through. Finally, add onion, ginger, salt and pepper to season.

3. Yam dumplings.

Crush the yam into powder, steam it in a pot, then add brown sugar and pepper to make it into balls. Soak the glutinous rice for a while, grind it into glutinous rice flour, then make glutinous rice balls with yam and glutinous rice, put them into the pot and cook.