Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the quintessences of our country. Many diseases can be treated through traditional Chinese medicine diet. The principle of nourishing kidney deficiency is based on syndrome differentiation and treatment. Different medicinal foods can be given according to the specific type. Conditioning treatment can be carried out by warming and nourishing kidney yang, nourishing kidney yin, replenishing kidney essence, replenishing qi and nourishing kidney, and tonifying kidney and strengthening essence. Let’s take a look at these healthy Chinese medicine meals.

Herbal diet to warm and nourish kidney yang - roasted dog meat with ginger

Ingredients: 30 grams of cooked Fu slices, 1,000 grams of dog meat, 150 grams of ginger, appropriate amounts of vegetable oil, garlic, and green onions.

Preparation: Wash the dog meat and cut it into small pieces; simmer the ginger and set aside. Then put the cooked slices into a casserole and simmer for 2 hours, then add the dog meat, garlic and ginger, add an appropriate amount of water and simmer until the meat is tender.

Effects: Replenishing kidney yang. It is suitable for Yang deficiency symptoms such as excessive urination at night, chills and cold limbs. Patients with chronic bronchitis and chronic nephritis who are weak and cold in the body should also take it.

Nourishing kidney yin medicinal diet - first-grade yam

Ingredients: 500 grams of raw yam, 150 grams of flour, appropriate amount of walnut kernels, assorted preserved fruits, honey, 100 grams of white sugar, a little lard and corn starch.

Preparation: Wash the raw yam, steam it, peel it, put it into an enamel basin, add flour, knead it into a dough, then make it into a cake, put an appropriate amount of walnut kernels and assorted preserved fruits on top, and steam it for 20 minutes. After taking it out of the pan, pour a layer of honey on the round cake (1 tablespoon honey, 100 grams of sugar, a little lard and corn starch, heat it up).

Efficacy nourishes kidney yin. It is suitable for conditions such as thirst, frequent urination, and spermatorrhea caused by kidney yin deficiency.

Medicinal diet to replenish kidney essence - stewed pig trotters with fish maw

Ingredients: 15 grams of fish maw, 1 pig's trotter, appropriate amount of green onion, ginger, wine and salt.

Preparation: Wash the fish maw and pig's trotters, cut the pig's trotters into pieces, put them into a casserole, add water, wine, salt, green onion and ginger, stew until the pig's trotters are crispy and then serve.

Effects: Tonify kidneys and essence, nourish muscles and bones. It is suitable for people with weak kidneys, weak waist and knees, dizziness, fatigue or vaginal discharge, and can be taken regularly.

Medicinal diet that nourishes the kidneys and strengthens the waist - roasted pork loin with Eucommia ulmoides

Ingredients: 15 grams of Eucommia ulmoides and 4 pork loins.

Preparation: Cut raw Eucommia ulmoides into sections 3.3 cm long and 1.6 cm wide. Break open the pork loin with bamboo slices, put the cut Eucommia slices into the pork loin, wrap it with several layers of wet straw paper, put it in a charcoal fire and grill it slowly, take it out and remove the straw paper after it is cooked.

Effects: Strengthen waist and nourish kidneys. It is suitable for patients with kidney deficiency, low back pain, nephritis and pyelonephritis.

Medicinal diet for nourishing kidney and black hair——Shouwu braised chicken

Ingredients: 1000 grams of three-yellow hen, 50 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, ginger slices, cooking wine, refined salt and a little sesame oil.

To make a live three-yellow hen, slaughter it in the usual way, peel it, eviscerate it and remove the intestines; grind Polygonum multiflorum into pieces, put it into a gauze bag, and stuff it into the chicken belly. Put the chicken into the casserole, add water until the chicken body is submerged, simmer over low heat until the meat is cooked, take out the Shouwu bag, then add cooking wine, fine salt, ginger, sesame oil and other seasonings, simmer over low heat for another half an hour and serve.

Efficacious in nourishing kidney qi. It is suitable for premature aging and gray hair in men.

Medicinal diet for nourishing the kidneys and diluting water—cowpea and water spinach stewed with chicken

The raw materials are 150 grams of cowpea, 150 grams of water spinach, and 1 chicken (about 250-500 grams).

Cut the chicken, wash it, cut it into pieces, stew it with cowpeas and water spinach, add salt, green onions and other seasonings. Eat meat and eat vegetables.

Effects: Strengthen the spleen, nourish the kidneys, and diuresis. It is suitable for edema, white turbid urine, dizziness, soreness in the knees, fatigue, loss of appetite, pale tongue with thin white coating, and deep and thready pulse caused by spleen and kidney qi deficiency.