Dietotherapy for kidney-yang deficiency
Cowpea: it is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and has the dual functions of tonifying kidney and strengthening spleen. For example, "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Cowpea tonifies kidney and stomach, and produces sperm. In the past, Lu Lianfu taught people to tonify kidney qi, and cooked cowpeas hollow every day, eating less salt. " "Modern Records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine" also introduces: "Cowpea nourishes yin and kidney, and strengthens the spleen and stomach. Treat leucorrhea due to kidney deficiency, white turbidity and nocturnal emission. " It is also suitable for people with kidney deficiency and frequent urination.
Lycium barbarum: it is flat and sweet. Long-term administration has the effects of tonifying kidney and liver, improving eyesight, strengthening bones and muscles, eliminating lumbago and prolonging life. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people with kidney deficiency, it is the best food. For example, "Materia Medica Xuan Tong" records: "Lycium barbarum, tonifying kidney and essence, strengthening water and strengthening bones, and curing thirst, dizziness, backache and knee pain." Materia Medica Jing Shu also said: "Lycium barbarum is a nourishing medicine for deficiency of true yin of liver and kidney, fatigue and internal heat. Seven out of ten elderly people are yin deficiency, and eating at home is good for their eyes. "
Cordyceps sinensis: warm in nature and sweet in taste, it has the function of tonifying kidney and lung, and is a valuable medicinal material for nourishing yin and strengthening yang. For example, the New Materia Medica says that it "protects the lung and benefits the kidney", and the Pharmacological Examination also says: "Cordyceps sinensis is secret and lean, and it specializes in nourishing life." "Little Knowledge of Orange Orchard" also said: "Soak a few bowls with wine to cure the pain of waist and knees and benefit the kidney." Although Cordyceps sinensis is a nourishing and strong traditional Chinese medicine with few side effects, few people use it directly in prescriptions. Anyone with kidney deficiency should stew Cordyceps with lean meat, chicken or duck, and even fresh placenta, which is more beneficial as a nourishing food.
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv Warm in nature and slightly pungent in taste, it can tonify liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. It is most suitable for patients with habitual abortion caused by kidney deficiency, such as backache, weakness of feet and knees, paralysis of lower limbs in children and kidney deficiency in women. As Miao Xiyong, a physician in Ming Dynasty, explained, "Du Zhong is responsible for lumbago, benefiting qi, strengthening bones and muscles, and foot pain. Building a waist is a house of kidneys. If you can't shake it, your kidney will be useless. Eucommia ulmoides makes up for its deficiency and benefits the kidney. "
Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.: It has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney and benefiting essence and blood. Physicians in past dynasties used it for people with kidney deficiency. Li Mingzhizhen said, "Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It can nourish blood and liver, strengthen kidney, strengthen bones and muscles, and blacken hair. It is a tonic, on top of drugs such as Rehmannia glutinosa and Asparagus. " Huang Gongxiu, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, also said: "Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, books all say that nourishing water and tonifying kidney, blackening hair and intellectual man fit, are highly appreciated." Anyone with kidney deficiency, premature gray hair, weak waist and knees, sore bones and muscles, or nocturnal emission of men and women, is suitable for eating.
Sea cucumber: warm and salty. Although the texture is feminine, it can tonify kidney and strengthen yang, and it is a product of tonifying kidney and yin and yang. For example, "Materia Medica from the New" said: "Sea cucumber tonifies kidney and essence, and strengthens yang to treat flaccidity." The Resting Diet Spectrum also says "nourishing yin and strengthening yang". Therefore, people with kidney deficiency should eat it.
Hippocampus: Warm in nature and sweet in taste, it can tonify kidney and strengthen yang, so anyone who is deficient in kidney yang should eat it, including impotence, infertility, polyuria, nocturnal emission, asthenic asthma and so on. Caused by kidney yang deficiency. Can be finely ground with hippocampus, each time 1 ~ 2g, and yellow wine 1 two or three times a day.
Fresh river shrimp: warm in nature, sweet and salty in taste, enters the kidney meridian and has the function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. All patients with waist and foot weakness, impotence or male infertility caused by deficiency of kidney qi and kidney yang should eat more shrimp. The "Convenient Prescription for Eating Traditional Chinese Medicine" also introduced: "Impotence due to kidney deficiency and weakness of waist and foot: fennel 30g, fried, raw shrimp 90g, pounded into pills, and taken with yellow wine, 3-6g each time, 1, twice a day."
In addition, people with kidney deficiency should also take turtle meat, pigeon meat, pork, soft-shelled turtle, gecko, lotus seed, pine nut, shepherd's purse, leek, royal jelly, Ganoderma lucidum, bird's nest, donkey-hide gelatin, placenta Hominis, Rehmannia glutinosa, Cynomorium songaricum and cistanche deserticola.
Antelope horn, deer, rehmannia root and Polygonum multiflorum are health-care drugs for nourishing the waist and kidney, which is good for tonifying the kidney.
Common effects may be better: honey, royal jelly, pollen, ant powder, etc.
Royal jelly: a comprehensive nourishing royal jelly. Fresh royal jelly is the only super-nutritious food in the world that can be directly ingested by human beings, with high active ingredients. It has effects in calming and sleeping, regulating blood pressure, protecting liver and preventing cancer, strengthening brain and improving intelligence, prolonging life, caring skin, nourishing nerves and enhancing hematopoietic function.