Post Date November, 16 2024
Nourishing yin and promoting yang is still quite important for the body of men and women, and there are many ways to nourish yin and promote yang, among which dietary pairing is one. So, what are the foods for nourishing yin and strengthening yang?
Nourishing Yin, a proprietary term in traditional Chinese medicine, refers to a treatment method that nourishes the Yin fluid. Suitable for symptoms such as yin deficiency, hot flashes, night sweats, or excessive heat causing damage to the fluid, resulting in redness of the tongue and dry mouth. Common drugs such as ginseng, polygonatum, asparagus, dendrobium officinale, goji berries, etc.
Nourishing yin also refers to nourishing yin, nourishing yin, and benefiting yin. It is a method of treating yin deficiency syndrome. Symptoms include thinning of the body, tinnitus and dizziness, red lips and cheekbones, insomnia due to deficiency, night sweating during sleep, wheezing, coughing, and hemoptysis, frequent ejaculation, red tongue with little coating, and thin pulse count. Common formulas such as Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, Zuo Gui Wan, Bu Yin Wan, etc; Regular medicines such as Asparagus, Ophiopogon, Dendrobium officinale, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Polygonatum odoratum, Turtle shell, Lotus root, Ligustrum lucidum, etc.
Tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, a Chinese medicine term, refers to improving the positive gas field of young men according to diet, medicine, Chinese medicine acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, fitness and other ways, so as to achieve the goal of improving the kidney gas, strengthening the yang, improving sexual ability, and enhancing sexual function. Male impotence is a major manifestation of men's pursuit of a better quality of life. Tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang is different from premature ejaculation and impotence, which are not erectile dysfunction in men. At present, there are misconceptions in these aspects that should be viewed correctly. Tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang only requires improving fitness, balanced diet, and a healthy lifestyle. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the scarcity of sperm belongs to the scope of deficiency and damage, mainly due to insufficient congenital resource endowment, or excessive atrial labor damaging kidney qi, or major diseases lasting for a long time, resulting in deficiency of qi and blood, poor source of kidney essence transformation, and ultimately causing kidney qi deficiency and cost expenditure. Therefore, it is said that kidney deficiency is the immediate cause of sperm scarcity.
1. Amaranth Congee
150g of amaranth and 100g of rice. Clean the rice, add cold water to properly cook Congee, add amaranth, and then boil it for one or two times, one dose a day.
Amaranth has a sweet and spicy taste, which can warm the kidneys, tonify the kidneys, and strengthen yang. The pharmaceutical industry often uses it to warm and tonify the kidney and yang deficiency, and the essence is not solid. It is the most common dietary therapy for common diseases in young women after sexual intercourse.
2. Suoyang Congee
15 grams of Suoyang, 100 grams of rice, with appropriate seasoning. Wash the rice thoroughly, fry it in lock Yang water to extract juice, boil the rice into porridge, and add salt, chicken essence, scallions, and ginger foam when cooked. Cook slightly, one dose per day.
Taking it persistently can nourish the kidneys and strengthen the waist and knees.
3. Huai yam chestnut Congee
15-30 grams of Huai yam, 50 grams of chestnut, 2-4 red dates, and 100 grams of stem rice. After shelling, chestnuts are boiled into Congee with Huai yam, red dates and stem rice.
Huai yam Poria cocos has a sweet and flat effect, which can nourish the spleen and stomach, benefit the lungs and kidneys, especially for those with insufficient spleen and kidney qi; But it is not suitable to eat too much at once, otherwise it is very easy to have food stagnation and lead to indigestion.
4. Congee with Cistanche and Mutton
20 grams of cistanche, 250 grams of beef, and 50 grams of rice. Cut the cistanche finely, chop the beef and clean the rice. Boil the cistanche with water and add it into the rice. Boil the cistanche, add the beef and cook the Congee until it is cooked. Add a little salt and take one dose every day.
Beef is sweet, warm, and non-toxic. Benefiting kidney essence, aiding Yuanyang, benefiting kidney blood, and promoting yang and kidney function.
5. Ginger slices and red dates Congee
6-9 grams of fresh ginger slices or processed ginger, 100-150 grams of stem or dried rice, and 2-4 pieces of red dates. Clean and chop ginger slices, and cook them with rice and dates into Congee.
It has the effects of warming the stomach and dispersing cold, warming the lungs, relieving cough, and resolving phlegm, but those with yin deficiency or pregnant women should eat it with caution.
In fact, there are many foods that can nourish yin and yang in daily life, but they are just not understood. Many Congee have the effect of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, such as amaranth Congee, Cynomorium Congee, Huai yam chestnut Congee, etc., so eating more of this Congee can achieve the actual effect of nourishing yin and strengthening yang.
