Chestnut: The fruit for nourishing yin and tonifying kidney is also called Maoli shell and chestnut, which is rich in sugar, starch, protein, fat, minerals and vitamins. After eating, it can supplement nutrition and keep fit. Chinese medicine believes that chestnut is warm, sweet and light in taste, which has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, and has a certain auxiliary treatment effect on kidney deficiency and low back pain.
3 Hazelnut: the fruit of tonifying lung and kidney Hazelnut, also known as pestle, hazelnut, chestnut and hammer, is one of the specialties in Northeast China and North China. It contains 8 kinds of amino acids and various trace elements and minerals necessary for human body and has high nutritional value. Hazelnut, on the other hand, is flat and sweet, which has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, benefiting qi, improving eyesight and promoting circulation, and is quite beneficial to the symptoms of lung and kidney deficiency such as thirst, night sweats, nocturia and so on. Like chestnuts, you can chew them both raw and cooked, but cooked is better.
4 pine nuts and cashews are more kidney-nourishing.
Pine nuts: flat in nature, sweet in taste, entering the liver, lungs and intestines. They have the effects of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, nourishing qi and blood, moistening dryness and smoothing intestines. It is suitable for the elderly with weak constitution, dry stool, chronic bronchitis, chronic cough without phlegm and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pine nuts have no effect of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang.
Cashew nuts: Cashew nuts are shaped like kidneys, but they can't tonify kidney and strengthen yang. Mild in nature and sweet in taste, it has the effects of moistening lung, relieving restlessness and resolving phlegm, and is suitable for people with lung dryness, thirst quenching, boredom and cough.