Winter is the season that needs tonic. At this time, we should pay attention to eating some warm food, so as to maintain the metabolic balance of the body. Men are prone to kidney deficiency in winter, and how to nourish can be carried out through food. Here are two recipes for tonifying kidney in winter.

Cong Rong qi zi mutton medicine soup

Ingredients: cistanche deserticola 30g, Lycium barbarum 15g (available in Chinese medicine stores), 2 pairs of lamb loins, 250g of mutton and 5 slices of ginger.

Practice: soak and wash the medicinal materials; Remove fascia from sheep waist, cut open and wash, wash mutton, cut into pieces, put it in boiling water with angelica and ginger wine, and wash. Put the clay pots together, add 2500 ml of water (about 10 bowl), cook for 2 hours with strong fire, and then add salt.

Efficacy: tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. Animal organs are rich in high-quality protein, which plays the role of "nourishing viscera with viscera". Yang Yao Tang, the chef of Cistanche deserticola hippopotamus, is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which has the functions of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang and warming spleen and stomach, and is one of the dietotherapy soups for people with yang deficiency in winter.

Yam and sheep waist soup

Materials: Half black-bone chicken, Chinese yam 15g, Radix Rehmanniae 15g, Fructus Lycii 10g, and Fructus Jujubae 10g (for two people).

Practice: First, blanch the black-bone chicken with boiling water, put the raw materials into a casserole, boil it with high fire, and stew it with low fire for 3 hours.

Efficacy: This decoction has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and promoting fluid production. Black-bone chicken can enrich blood and nourish yin; Yam can nourish the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and moisten the lungs; Rehmannia glutinosa nourishes blood and nourishes yin, benefiting essence and filling marrow; Lycium barbarum nourishes liver and kidney and benefits eyes; Jujube tonic, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. The compatibility of various drugs can achieve the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach and nourishing the lungs and kidneys.

There are some foods suitable for tonifying kidney in winter, which are suitable for many people to eat. For example, men can tonify the kidney and the elderly can enhance their resistance, and they can also supplement rich and high-quality protein, which is good for maintaining good health. Let's have a try.