How to judge kidney deficiency, yin deficiency and yang deficiency?

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Kidney deficiency is a common disease in traditional Chinese medicine. There are many kinds of kidney deficiency, including kidney qi deficiency, kidney essence deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, kidney yang deficiency and kidney yin yang deficiency. The most common one is kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. The first thing to tonify the kidney is to distinguish whether you are kidney yang deficiency or kidney yin deficiency. How to judge kidney deficiency, yin deficiency and yang deficiency? Let's talk about it

How to judge kidney deficiency, yin deficiency and yang deficiency?

It depends on age. Generally speaking, young and middle-aged people are prone to kidney yin deficiency, while middle-aged and old people are prone to kidney yang deficiency. Because the young and middle-aged people have heavy mental pressure and psychological pressure, the metabolism of the whole body is relatively active, the ability consumption is more, and the lack of kidney essence is easy to occur, so the deficiency of kidney Yin is more likely to occur; The body material consumption of middle-aged and old people is obviously small, but at this stage, various tissues and organs of the body are gradually aging, and the performance of "body parts" is not as good as before, so it is often prone to functional kidney deficiency, which is the so-called kidney yang deficiency.

Look at the cold and hot symptoms, that is, through the patient's discomfort symptoms to distinguish kidney yang deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. According to traditional Chinese medicine, kidney yang deficiency is characterized by "cold", accompanied by soreness and weakness of waist and knees, chilly limbs, fear of cold, cold hands and feet, even edema, and male friends with decreased sexual function; The main symptoms of kidney yin deficiency are "heat", such as waist acid, dry heat, night sweat, deficiency sweat, dizziness, tinnitus, five heart trouble and heat. From the point of view of modern medicine, whether kidney yin deficiency or kidney yang deficiency, will lead to the decline of human immune function, especially the immune ability of the kidney will be significantly reduced, leading to renal microcirculation system obstruction, kidney meridian obstruction, leading to some chronic kidney diseases.

Men can also see the sexual function, if often premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea is generally kidney yin deficiency, if often impotence is generally kidney yang deficiency. Observe two defecation situation, if the urine yellow, often constipation people belong to kidney yin deficiency; For those who often have clear and long urine and loose stools, most of them belong to kidney yang deficiency.

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Usually you can eat more nourishing food, such as yam, soybean, potato, kidney bean, cauliflower and so on. People with deficiency of kidney yang have insufficient true Yang in their bodies. They should eat warm food that can Tonify Kidney Yang, such as mutton, dog meat, beans, cinnamon, pork tripe, light soy sauce, leek, chili, etc.