What are the foods that tonify spleen and kidney?

What are the foods that tonify spleen and kidney?

Foods for invigorating spleen and kidney include yam, lotus seeds, cowpea, perch and so on.

1. Dioscorea opposita: It has the effects of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach, tonifying the lung and benefiting the kidney. It can harmonize lung, spleen and kidney, and mother and son are born together. It has a good nourishing effect. It can be used for treating spleen deficiency, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, cough and asthma due to lung deficiency, shortness of breath, asthenia, nocturnal emission due to kidney deficiency, and excessive leucorrhea. When we eat yam, we can boil water with Euryale ferox and lotus seeds, which is often better.

2. Lotus seeds: have the effects of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidney. It can tonify spleen and kidney, regulate qi and blood, and is suitable for patients with heart deficiency and insomnia and nocturnal emission.

3. Cowpea: It can tonify kidney and spleen, produce sperm and fill marrow. Patients with nocturnal emission due to spleen deficiency are suitable for eating.

4. Perch: It can tonify spleen and stomach, liver and kidney, and benefit bones and muscles. It is especially suitable for people with liver and kidney yin deficiency, spleen deficiency and weak stomach, and at the same time, they are characterized by weakness of bones and muscles and fatigue.

This content was reviewed by Ma Dayong, deputy chief physician of Department of Encephalopathy, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

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