In fact, too much dampness in the body can affect health and longevity. If you want to better remove dampness from the body and tonify the kidneys, you can also do so through some dietary methods. Below, I will recommend some nutritious soups for removing dampness and tonifying the kidneys.

1. Job’s tears white pepper pork stomach soup

Use one pork stomach, a little bean curd, fifty grams of Job’s tears, and three dried dates, along with salt, ginger, white pepper, cooking oil, and cooking wine as seasonings. Cut the pork stomach into strips, soak the Job’s tears and dates for a while. Put water, ginger, and pork stomach in a pot, add some cooking wine, bring to a boil, then remove. Put the pork stomach, dates, Job’s tears, and bean curd back into the pot, add white pepper and water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about sixty minutes.

2. Glutinous rice, Job’s tears,山药lotus root spareribs soup

Fifteen grams of山药 and ten grams of Job’s tears, ten grams of glutinous rice, five to six red dates, a section of lotus root, and one catty of spareribs. After washing the spareribs, put them in a pot with water, scallions, ginger, and cooking wine, bring to a boil over high heat; then add山药, glutinous rice, and Job’s tears, and simmer over low heat for sixty minutes. Add lotus root, carrots, and red dates, and cook for another half hour; season and serve.

3. Three-flower Job’s tears lean meat soup

Thirty grams of kapok flower and egg flower, thirty grams of Sophora japonica flower and Job’s tears, one hundred grams of lean meat, and thirty grams of fried mung bean, twelve grams of dried tangerine peel or amomum. After washing all the materials, put them in a pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for sixty minutes. Kapok flower can detoxify, remove summer heat, and stop bleeding. Dried kapok can remove dampness when used in soup.

4. Red bean and winter melon soup with raw fish

Sixty grams of red bean, 750 grams of winter melon, two pieces of raw fish, and 150 grams of lean pork, with three slices of ginger. Wash the red bean, winter melon, and raw fish, and fry the fish over low heat until slightly golden. Put the lean pork and ginger in a pot, add water and cook over low heat for 2 and a half hours. This soup is light and not greasy, and can remove dampness and invigorate the spleen. Red bean can invigorate the spleen, remove dampness, and消肿解毒.