You can nourish your body all year round, but autumn and winter are the best seasons for nourishment. Especially for people with yang deficiency, autumn and winter are the best time to take tonics. I used to often hear a saying from the elderly that goes: 'Supplement in autumn and winter, hunt tigers in spring.'. Autumn and winter are the most suitable seasons for taking tonics throughout the year. At this time, taking tonics can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Traditional Chinese medicine teaches that medicine and food share the same origin, and there is no absolute boundary between them. Many foods have both therapeutic and dietary functions. Doctors in previous dynasties also paid attention to this point, and achieved the function of preventing and treating diseases by eating properly matched Tonic Diet. Below is a cinnamon Morinda lamb soup that is very suitable for people with kidney yang deficiency.
【 Composition of Soup Formula 】
10 grams of cinnamon, 30 grams of Morinda officinalis, 15 grams of Eucommia ulmoides, 1 pound of lamb, and 10 grams of goji berries
Cut lamb into pieces, add ginger, scallions, and garlic to water to remove the fishy smell, and then add medicinal herbs in the above ratio to make soup and drink
Analysis of Soup Formula
Goji berries have a sweet taste and a mild nature. They enter the liver and kidney meridians and can nourish the kidney meridians, nourish essence and blood.
Cinnamon can tonify fire and promote yang, bring fire back to its original state, dispel cold and relieve pain, warm and promote meridians. It is mainly used for treating erectile dysfunction, uterine coldness, pain in the waist and knees, wheezing due to kidney deficiency, floating yang due to deficiency, dizziness, red eyes, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, vomiting and diarrhea due to deficiency cold, cold hernia and abdominal pain, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.
Morinda officinalis can nourish kidney yang, strengthen muscles and bones, and dispel wind and dampness. Used for erectile dysfunction, nocturnal emission, uterine cold infertility, menstrual disorders, low abdominal pain, rheumatism and rheumatism, and weak muscles and bones. Morinda officinalis can nourish kidney yang, nourish essence and blood, strengthen muscles and bones, and dispel wind and dampness. Treat impotence, infertility, menstrual disorders, and reduced abdominal pain caused by weak kidney yang. It can also treat muscle and bone weakness caused by liver and kidney deficiency, lower back and knee pain, or chronic rheumatism and difficulty walking.
Eucommia ulmoides has a sweet taste and a slightly warm nature. It enters the kidney meridian; Nourishing the liver and kidneys, strengthening muscles and bones, stabilizing pregnancy, filling essence, used for treating kidney deficiency, tinnitus, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, impotence, nocturnal emissions, irritability, hypertension, etc. It can treat lower back and leg pain or soreness and weakness caused by kidney yang deficiency.
Lamb meat has the functions of nourishing the middle and tonifying qi, warming the stomach and promoting yang, strengthening the spleen and warming the middle. Lamb meat has a warm nature, so it also has the effect of dispelling cold and keeping warm.
【 Health benefits 】
Cinnamon Morinda Lamb Soup has the effects of tonifying the kidneys, dispelling cold, and strengthening yang, especially for those who experience cold hands and feet, cold and sore waist, frequent recurrence, aggravation after fatigue, relief after rest, aversion to cold and warmth, and weak mouth in daily life. The tongue is pale and plump, the fur is white, the pulse is deep and fine, and it has a good nourishing effect on women with uterine coldness and infertility. It is suitable for people with spleen and stomach qi deficiency, body thinness, and loss of appetite. Taking it together can tonify deficiency, warm kidney yang, invigorate spleen and stomach, and nourish essence and qi. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and kidneys, warming the middle and lower body, and also nourishing the appearance.