Foods for Kidney Yang Energy

« Power of Food for Optimal Health | Posted on 01/27/2011 05:14 pm by admin

 

Learn if you need the diet for Kidney Yang 

Kidney Yang Energy Explained:

Kidney Yang is the warming force that is needed for fertilization and maturation of eggs. At the same time if there is weakness of the Kidney Yang energy there can be infertility, miscarriage, and delayed menstrual cycles, with scant bleeding, and small clots with a darker red blood. Menstrual pain can be relieved by warmth. Women may also suffer from getting chilled easily, the skin appears more pale, and the patients complain of a frequent urge to urinate as well as lower back pain and dizziness. They are easily prone to depression. excess menstrual cycles, lack of libido. Characteristically this leads to cold hands and feet, and exhaustion. The body becomes very sensitive to cold.

In men, there is a feeling of cold. Erections are weak and often do not last long. Loss of libido, and few sperms with low motility, Men may also feel listless or depressed.

Diet for Boosting Yang energy


 

Grains Toasted short grain rice, long-grain rice, basmati rice, oats, buckwheat, quinoa, sweet rice, toasted millet, amaranth
Vegetables Leeks, green onions, kale, savoy, cabbage, carrots pumpkins, sweet potatoes, yam roots, Brussel sprouts, onions, sweet chestnuts, fennel, corn, parsnips, turnips
Spices Cloves, garlic, fennel seed, aniseed, black pepper, fresh ginger, fenugreek, cinnamon bark, rosemary, star anise, nutmeg, oregano, thyme, basil, juniper berries, cardamom, coriander, turmeric, caraway, vanilla, horseradish
Legumes Black beans, peas, lentils, garbanzo beans
Fruits Sweet apples, apricots, plums, peaches, coconuts, lychees, figs, sweet cherries, raspberries (grated, dried, or stwed with spices)
Lettuces & herbs Corn salad, radicchio, endives, lollo rosso, batvia, chives parsley, basil
Meat & fish Beef broth, lamb, chicken, deer, sheep, goat; salmon, trout, prawns, mussels, carp
Dairy Sheep’s goats milk
Fats & Oils Olive oil, sesame oil, walnut oil, flaxseed oil, butter, ghee(clarified butter)
Nuts & Seeds Walnuts, pistachios, hazel nuts, peanuts, sesame.
Drinks Fennel tea, star anise tea, licorice root tea, hot water, apple or grape juice with hot water.
Other Barley malt, rice malt, plam sugar, molasses, maple syrup, honey, whole cane sugar.

 

Diet recipe applications: Roasted walnuts with leeks; leeks with prawns, back bean soup with warming spices and seaweed, stew, rice porridge (1 cup rice to 4 or 5 cups water simmered for 4 hours); chicken or beef bouillon; fish soup.