What foods to eat for kidney deficiency

March 31, 2023
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine states that "when yin is calm and yang is secret, the spirit is cured", and that kidney yang is the essence of yang energy, "the yang energy of the five organs cannot be developed without it". However, most kidney diseases are characterized by deficiency, in which the deficiency of kidney yang is likely to lead to the reduction of the function of the internal organs and mental weakness. Therefore, it is especially important to pay attention to the harmony of yin and yang in daily life. Here we summarize some simple and practical food therapy methods to reveal how Chinese medicine is to regulate kidney yang deficiency through dietary supplements.

The criteria for determining kidney yang deficiency

Kidney yang deficiency refers to the deficiency of kidney yang and the loss of moistening of the body, mostly due to the deficiency of yang in the body, or the deficiency of the kidney in old age, long term illness and injury to yang, or overwork in the room. The main manifestations and judgment criteria are: soreness and cold pain in the waist and knees, coldness in the extremities, especially in the lower extremities, whitish or sallow complexion, fatigue, loss of sexual desire, impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation in men, infertility in women, leucorrhea, frequent and long urination, increased nocturnal urination, pale tongue with white fur and sunken and weak pulse.

Food therapy recipe of fried lamb waist

Ingredients: 500 grams of lamb kidney, 100 grams of cilantro, 500 grams of lard, salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, sesame oil, vinegar, onion, ginger, garlic appropriate amount. Method: First, remove the skin of lamb kidney, slice into two halves and wash, cut into thin slices. Wash and cut the cilantro into small pieces, shred the green onion and crush the garlic. Put salt, monosodium glutamate, vinegar, cooking wine, green onion, ginger, garlic and cilantro together with boiling water to form a sauce. Then blanch the lamb kidney with water and control the water; pour the oil into the pot and boil it to 80%, then pour the lamb kidney into it, fry it through the hot oil and fish it out with a spoon, pour it into the sauce and mix it evenly and drizzle it with sesame oil in a hurry. Efficacy: nourishing kidney sweet warm, can nourish the kidney and benefit the essence, for kidney Yang deficiency caused by impotence, premature ejaculation effect is obvious.

Deer antler wine

Ingredients: 25 grams of deer antler slices, 50 grams of dried yam slices, 1 liter of good quality white wine over 50 degrees. Directions: Wrap deer antler and yam together in gauze, soak them in wine for a week and then drink, about 10 ml per day. After the wine is finished, you can roast the deer antler and grind it into a surface to be served with water. Efficacy: Deer antler can nourish the Yang, benefit the Qi and blood, fill the essence and strengthen the muscles and bones, and is a good strengthening agent for people with long-standing Yang deficiency. It is good for improving impotence and fatigue.

Deer whip powder for food therapy

Ingredients: one deer whip (sea dog kidney, dog whip are available) Method: Roast the deer whip and grind it into fine powder, take 5 grams with water twice a day. Efficacy: According to the therapy of Chinese medicine, deer whisk has the effect of warming the kidneys and strengthening the yang, benefiting the essence and filling the marrow, suitable for people with deficiency of kidney yang for dietary supplements.

Yam for kidney soup

Ingredients: 50 grams of dried yam slices, 20 grams of cistanches, 2 walnuts, 10 grams of codonopsis, 500 grams of mutton, 1 sheep spinal cord bone, 100 grams of round-grained rice, appropriate amount of onion, ginger, cooking wine, pepper, pepper, star anise, monosodium glutamate and salt. Then put the yam, cistanches, cuscuta seeds together with gauze wrapped and tied, put them into a pot with lamb, lamb backbone and japonica rice, add water, boil it with high fire to remove the froth, then put the wine and pepper, star anise and other spices into the pot, change the fire to smother until the lamb is cooked, add MSG and salt to taste. Efficacy: Yam kidney soup can warm the kidney Yang, more suitable for tinnitus and eye, waist and knee weakness, impotence and premature ejaculation and other people with kidney Yang deficiency.

Food therapy recipe for kidney aphrodisiac porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of Chinese wolfberry, 1 sheep kidney, 15 grams of Cistanches, 100 grams of millet, 5 grams of ginger, salt to taste. Practice: cut the sheep kidney, remove the tendons, wash and slice; wash the millet and put it into the pot with the cistanches and ginger, add the right amount of water, bring it to a boil over high heat and then change the heat to low, then add the sheep kidney and wolfberry and cook together until the meat is rotten and the rice is cooked, add salt to taste and serve. Efficacy: Kidney and Yang porridge can warm the kidneys and help Yang, nourish blood and strengthen bones, suitable for kidney Yang deficiency caused by weakness of the waist and knees, easy fatigue and other symptoms.
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