Once Clear: What Is The Difference Between Kidney Yin Deficiency And Kidney Yang Deficiency? Here Are Answers

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Jonh Recently, his condition has just stabilized, but he started to feel dizzy and weak, insomnia and dreamy, and he can't work at all.

When he came to see the doctor, he was told that the kidney is also divided into yin deficiency and yang deficiency, he was confused and did not understand the difference between the two symptoms.

According to Chinese medicine, the kidneys store essence, and kidney essence produces kidney yin and kidney yang, which nourish and warm the five organs and six bowels. Kidney yin and kidney yang are interdependent and mutually supportive in the human body to maintain the physiological balance of the body. If this balance is disrupted or if one side is in decline, pathology will occur, resulting in kidney yang deficiency or kidney yin deficiency.

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How to distinguish between kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency?

According to Chinese medicine, the difference between kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency is that kidney yin is the lack of substance and the main fear of heat; kidney yang is the lack of function and the main fear of cold.

The symptoms of Kidney Yin deficiency are.

Deficiency of heat, which is manifested by back pain, dizziness, tinnitus, irritability, insomnia and night sweating, red tongue, little and dry tongue coating, etc. Women may experience irregular menstruation, delayed menstruation, low menstrual flow, amenorrhea; men may experience premature ejaculation, inactivity, and dream emission.

Symptoms of kidney yang deficiency include

Cold deficiency, is manifested by cold hands and feet, fatigue, lack of energy, soreness, and cold pain in the waist and knees. Cold in the uterus is common in women and impotence in men, which affects fertility.

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So, how to distinguish between kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency?

Kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency have similar symptoms, such as weakness of limbs, back pain, and mental weakness. How to distinguish them?

Look at the cold and heat. Kidney Yin deficiency is mainly manifested by deficiency heat. People with Kidney Yin deficiency tend to sweat at night, have hot flashes in the palms of their hands and feet, dry mouth easily, and yellow urine. In contrast to Kidney Yin deficiency, Kidney Yang deficiency is characterized by coldness.

Look at sweating. Both kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency will have sweating symptoms, but kidney yin deficiency is mostly manifested as night sweating, while kidney yang deficiency is mostly manifested as false sweating.

Look at the tongue. People with Kidney Yin deficiency have a red tongue with a thin coating; people with Kidney Yang deficiency have a white tongue with a thick coating.

Look at the color of the face. People with kidney yin deficiency have a flushed face; people with kidney yang deficiency have a white face.

Look at the spirit. A person with Kidney Yin deficiency is prone to dryness and irritability; a person with Kidney Yang deficiency is depressed and depressed.

Causes of kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency

Kidney yin, also known as yuan yin, true yin, and kidney water, is the root of yin fluids in the whole body and is caused by a deficiency of yin energy or yin fluids in the kidneys that cannot nourish the kidneys. Causes of kidney yin deficiency, including

Overexertion and dark depletion of yin essence.

Excessive indulgence in sexual intercourse, with excessive loss of kidney essence.

Frequent late nights and lack of sleep depletes Yin's essence.

Eating fried food, which can easily get on fire and damage yin.

prolonged illness, decreased physical function, depletion of kidney yin

Internal injury to the seven emotions, great sadness, great joy, depression, temper tantrums, easy to hurt the kidneys.

Kidney yang is the root of the body's yang energy, with the function of warming the organs, is the driving force of all functional activities of the body. Yang deficiency is not allowed to warm the organs, and yin and cold are internally generated, so we see all the symptoms of Yang deficiency, and symptoms of yang deficiency and yin strength and false cold are internally generated. Causes of kidney yang deficiency, including

Congenital deficiency of the kidneys with decreased warming function.

Old age and weakness, involving the kidneys, result in Yang deficiency.

Prolonged illness with decreased immunity and deficiency of kidney yang.

Irregular life, with excessive body consumption.

Excessive sexual intercourse without restraint depletes kidney yang.

Three levels of prevention of kidney deficiency

The kidney is the "innate essence" of the human body and is the most genetically endowed organ of the human body. In modern life, men and women may suffer from kidney deficiency due to stressful life, heavy workload and mental tension. How should we prevent it?

The prevention of kidney deficiency is divided into three levels: treating the undiseased, preventing the change of the existing disease, and preventing the recurrence of the disease after recovery.

Treating the disease before it happens

Regular life and rest, less stay up late. When you stay up late, the kidney is like a high-speed filter, not getting rest, will increase the burden on the kidney and accelerate the loss of kidney units.

Eat a healthy diet, eat less red meat, and often eat vegetables containing sulfur. Red meat and other animal proteins will be converted into some kind of acid after entering the body, and the kidneys will secrete a substance to help the body get rid of this acid, but if this substance is maintained at a high level in the body for a long time, the kidney function will be affected.

Keep a good mood and learn to control your emotions. A good or bad mood will affect the health of the kidneys, peace of mind, optimism and cheerfulness, carefree, holding a cheerful mood can protect the kidneys.

Do not hold urine. Holding urine will lead to an increase in the concentration of waste and toxins carried by the urine piled up in the body, which will cause some damage to the kidneys.

Prevent changes in pre-existing diseases

Kidney deficiency does not necessarily develop into kidney cancer, after all, there are many causative factors of kidney cancer. However, if kidney deficiency is left unattended for a long time, kidney function will be severely damaged, giving cancer cells a chance to take advantage of it. Therefore, for patients with kidney deficiency, it is necessary to take timely means to treat the symptoms so as not to aggravate the disease and cause cancer.

First of all, we should use scientific medicine, kidney medicine should be taken according to the dose under the guidance of doctors, and also avoid contact with drugs or food containing nephrotoxicity.

Secondly, eat appropriate kidney food, such as black sesame, black fungus, black rice, black beans, and other black foods, as well as walnuts, leeks, shrimp, and other foods with kidney tonifying and nourishing effects.

Finally, regular checkups are recommended every 3-6 months, and also kidney ultrasound.

Prevent relapse after cure

If you still don't pay attention to kidney injury behaviors after curing kidney deficiency, you will repeat the same mistake which leads to the recurrence of kidney deficiency. Therefore, after healing, in order to prevent relapse, it is important to do the following.

Keep your feet warm, Chinese medicine believes that the kidney meridian starts at the bottom of the feet, and cold feet can easily hurt the kidneys.

Massage the kidney meridian often, massage the kidney meridian Yongquan point can replenish the kidney and strengthen the yuan, massage the kidney meridian Taixi point can converge the kidney meridian yuan qi.

In life, we should follow the seasonal changes, especially in winter to seal the kidneys and abstain from sexual intercourse.

The diet should adhere to a high-quality low protein diet, animal proteins such as milk, eggs, and plant proteins such as spinach, tofu, amaranth, etc. If you have a high protein diet for a long time, it will easily cause an imbalance of blood proteins and damage kidney function.

What herbs are available to treat kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency

Besides adopting a healthy diet and lifestyle habits, there are some Chinese herbs that can help treat kidney deficiency. For example, kidney yang deficiency can be treated with astragalus, cinnamon, and yam, and kidney yin deficiency can be treated with he shou wu, Rehmannia, and mulberry.

Kidney Yang deficiency: astragalus, cinnamon, yam

Astragalus, sweet, slightly warm, mainly enters the spleen meridian, has the effect of diuretic and swelling, tonifying the lung, benefiting the body, tonifying the deficiency, and clearing stagnation.

Cinnamon, pungent, sweet, and very hot, is a pungent and warm food, which can warm Yang and disperse cold, tonic fire and help Yang, and can be used for kidney deficiency and asthma, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, deficiency cold and vomiting and diarrhea.

Yam, sweet in taste and flat in nature, enters the lung, spleen, and kidney meridians, and is used to treat kidney qi deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, spermatorrhea, and premature ejaculation.

Kidney Yin deficiency: Radix Polygoni, Radix Rehmanniae, Mulberry

Radix Polygoni Multiflori, bitter, sweet and astringent, slightly warm, belongs to the liver, heart, and kidney meridians, with the effects of calming the mind, nourishing the blood, activating the ligaments, detoxifying the toxins and eliminating carbuncles.

Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, sweet, slightly warm, enters the heart, liver, and kidney meridians, is an important herb for nourishing the blood and generating essence, nourishing the yin and tonifying the kidney to reduce fever.

Mulberry, sweet, sour, cold, to the heart, liver, kidney meridian, main treatment of liver and kidney yin deficiency, palpitations and insomnia, thirst, and other diseases.

The kidneys are important to both men and women, and it is important to keep the kidneys well so that the body can be free of disease and worry. Have you learned all about the methods and precautions for nourishing the kidneys?

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