1, lotus seeds
Lotus seeds are flat, sweet and astringent, and have the effects of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, invigorating the spleen, tonifying the kidney and astringent essence. It is rich in starch, sugar, protein and high in fat, and contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, etc. Old people and mental workers can strengthen their brains and enhance their memory if they eat them regularly. Lotus seeds are beneficial to heart, kidney and diarrhea. Eating more lotus seeds is helpful to sleep. Lotus seeds can be made into yam, lotus seed black rice porridge, lotus seed longan soup, lotus seed stewed chicken soup and so on.
2. Cowpea
Cowpea is also called rice bean and long bean. Flat in nature and sweet in taste, it can tonify the kidney and strengthen the spleen. People with spleen deficiency should eat it, and people with kidney deficiency should also eat it. It is most suitable for people with kidney deficiency to quench thirst, nocturnal emission, white turbidity, or frequent urination, and women with leucorrhea. "Compendium of Materia Medica" once recorded that cowpea can replenish qi, tonify kidney and stomach, and produce essence. Cowpea can be made into cowpea stew chicken by invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney.
3. Black beans
Black beans are rich in nutrition and have the reputation of "king of beans" and "flower of nutrition". Black beans have the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, nourishing yin and promoting blood circulation, calming the nerves and improving eyesight, promoting diuresis and stranguria, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Taking black beans for a long time can also prevent the skin from producing dark spots and make the skin tender and shiny. Can be made into black bean stewed crucian carp, can prevent and treat atherosclerosis, and is suitable for conditioning liver and kidney yin deficiency.
4. Mutton
Mutton is warm and sweet. Entering the spleen, kidney and heart meridian, it has the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing blood, warming the middle warmer and warming the kidney. Mutton is suitable for people with deficiency and cold, especially those who are weak in old age, lack of yang, hands and feet are not warm in winter, feel cold and weak, waist soreness and impotence, and women suffer from deficiency of both qi and blood, emaciation, postpartum weakness, anemia or lack of milk, milk retention, spontaneous sweating or sweating. It is also suitable for patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma with spleen and kidney yang deficiency.
5, chestnuts
Chestnuts are sweet and warm in nature, enter the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians, have the effects of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the waist, and are suitable for nausea and diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach weakness, waist and knee weakness caused by kidney deficiency, etc. In addition, chestnuts can also help prevent hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Eating chestnuts often can delay aging. But pay attention to pregnant women, diabetes, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are not suitable for eating chestnut.