People With Yin And Yang Deficiency Must Try These Two Traditional Chinese Medicines!

Nowadays, many people are paying attention to health preservation. What do we need to know before pursuing health preservation? Of course, it's about understanding one's physique.

Simply put, being afraid of cold is yang deficiency, and being fearful of heat is yin deficiency. So what about being afraid of both cold and heat? It is a deficiency of both yin and yang.

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Let's talk about Yang deficiency first. People with Yang deficiency, as the name suggests, have insufficient Yang energy in their bodies. Just imagine, how can they resist the external wind and cold if their Yang energy is not sufficient. So, people with yang deficiency are prone to catching colds, fever, and runny nose once there is a temperature difference in the outside world.

In autumn and winter, the weather turns cool and hands and feet get cold all day long.

So, which behaviors in daily life are prone to losing yang energy? Nowadays, milk tea shops can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys, and many young people love ice drinks, even in the winter when they drink with ice.

The taste is satisfied, but the stomach suffers. These cold drinks enter our bodies and require a large amount of yang energy to warm our bodies back.

Secondly, excessive use of air conditioning. Imagine if everyone feels bad without air conditioning in summer now? From home to the subway station, to work at the office, to have a meal and stroll around the mall after work, where is there no air conditioning?

Simply put, as long as it is not an outdoor place, air conditioning is almost fully covered. Staying in such an environment for a long time, our yang energy is gradually being depleted.

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Also, there is a phenomenon recently discovered in the comment section where many people's first reaction when they get angry is to ask what kind of heat-clearing medicine to take to reduce internal heat. Do I have to take antipyretic medicine for internal heat? Of course not!

The human body's heat is divided into two types: actual heat and virtual heat.

Only those with solid fire can take heat-clearing medicine, what about those with deficient fire? It should nourish yin. Someone is going to ask, how do I know if I am a real fire? It's very simple. Judging from the tongue coating, those with actual heat often have yellow and greasy tongue coating, while those with virtual heat often have no tongue coating and red tongue.

Therefore, some people with deficiency fire are already yin deficient, and they rashly take heat-clearing medicine, suddenly becoming yin and yang deficient.

After discussing Yang's deficiency, let's talk about Yin's deficiency.

If Yang deficiency represents insufficient energy in the body, then Yin deficiency represents insufficient body fluid. Body fluid is the general term for all fluids in the human body. People with Yin deficiency lack water, so they are like a dry earth.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yin and yang mutually constrain each other. When yin is deficient, yang qi naturally cannot be restrained. Imagine that the body has already dried up and smoked, and at this point, yang qi cannot be restrained.

A single spark can start a prairie fire, making it easy for the body to 'burn'.

So, people with yin deficiency will always feel hot, with their palms, feet, and sometimes even their chest heating up. Traditional Chinese medicine calls this "Five Heart Irritation Heat". In addition, at night, people with yin deficiency are also prone to sweating. Imagine that their whole body is covered in sticky sweat, how can they sleep soundly at night?

What behaviors can damage Yin blood? Staying up late is the most harmful to the yin.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver stores blood and the kidneys store essence. Staying up late requires more physical energy and mental effort to maintain. If we compare the essence and blood in the liver and kidneys to lamp oil, staying up late is like a flame on lamp oil. Sooner or later, there will be a day when the oil runs out and the lamp will wither. Do you still feel a little scared after thinking about it?

However, there are too many people nowadays who drink cold drinks, use air conditioning and stay up late. Therefore, some people with physical fitness deviations are prone to yin and yang deficiency if they are not careful.

Today, I will introduce two traditional Chinese medicines to you, one for nourishing yin and the other for nourishing yang.

1. Nourishing Yin: Ligustrum lucidum

Ligustrum lucidum is a sweet and cool medicinal herb that enters the liver and kidney meridians. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweetness can nourish and nourish the liver and kidneys, while coolness can clear heat. Therefore, Ligustrum lucidum has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, clearing deficiency and heat, and nourishing the middle with a clear essence.

The effects and functions of Ligustrum lucidum include nourishing the liver and kidneys, improving vision, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, lowering blood sugar and lipid levels, anti-arteriosclerosis, anti-liver injury, increasing peripheral white blood cell count, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutation, anti-cancer, cardiac strengthening, diuretic, cough suppressant, laxative, antibacterial, etc.

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Ligustrum lucidum is a traditional Chinese medicine derived from the dried and ripe fruit of Ligustrum lucidum, a plant in the family Rhinoceros. The nature and taste of Ligustrum lucidum are sweet, bitter, and cool, and it belongs to the liver and kidney meridians. Its efficacy and function are to nourish the liver and kidneys and improve vision. My personality tends to be cold and cool, and it can nourish the yin of the liver and kidneys. Therefore, it is used to treat symptoms such as blurred vision, decreased vision, early white hair, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, frequent dreams, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, and nocturnal emissions caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency

Some people often experience dizziness, tinnitus, and soreness in the waist and knees. In some cases, they may even have white hair in their youth, and their eyes may not be able to see clearly. According to traditional Chinese medicine, these are all caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency.

The "Shennong Bencao Jing" provides a comprehensive description of Ligustrum lucidum, stating that it "mainly nourishes the middle, soothes the five organs, nourishes the spirit, and eliminates hundreds of diseases. Long-term consumption is beneficial and healthy

In the book "Bencao Mengqi," it is said that Ligustrum lucidum can have "black hair and black whiskers, strong muscles and strength, and can be taken frequently to replenish blood and dispel wind

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen stated in "Compendium of Materia Medica" that Ligustrum lucidum was "strong in yin, healthy in waist and knees, and has good eyesight

It can be seen that most medical practitioners throughout history have used Ligustrum lucidum for symptoms such as early white hair, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, and unclear vision caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency.

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2. Nourishing Yang: Cistanche deserticola

Cistanche deserticola is a sweet and warm medicinal herb that nourishes and nourishes the kidneys.

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Cistanche deserticola Y.C.Ma, traditional Chinese medicine for tonifying the kidney, is recorded in the 2015 edition of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. It is a succulent stem of the genus Cistanche in the family Lewandaceae, mainly distributed in Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Xinjiang. Cistanche deserticola and Tubular Cistanche deserticola have extremely high medicinal value. They enter the kidney and large intestine meridians. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that Cistanche deserticola "is a nourishing but not severe substance, so it is called Cistanche deserticola" and "it is warm but can moisten, replenish but not dry, smooth but not diarrhea". 

It has the effects of tonifying kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, moistening the intestines, and defecating. Traditionally, it is used for kidney yang deficiency, deficiency of essence and blood, impotence, infertility, soreness of the waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones, and constipation due to intestinal dryness, It is the most frequently used tonifying kidney yang medicine in history. Modern pharmacological research shows that Cistanche deserticola has many effects such as improving sexual function, anti-aging, improving learning and memory ability, anti-Alzheimer's disease, defecation, etc. It is widely used in clinical prescriptions of Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese patent medicines, and simple preparations and health care products.

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The main chemical components of Cistanche deserticola are phenylethanoid glycosides, iridoids, and their glycosides, lignans, and polysaccharides. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that phenylethanoid glycosides are the most important active substances in Cistanche deserticola, and have obvious anti-Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, myocardial ischemia, and other effects.

The medicinal properties of Cistanche deserticola are relatively mild, so it can nourish yang without harming yin. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for people with yin and yang deficiency. Cistanche deserticola can enter not only the kidney meridian but also the colon meridian.

Due to its moist and nourishing nature, Cistanche deserticola is also commonly used in some people with intestinal dryness and constipation.

Finally, a simple summary is that Ligustrum lucidum has the effect of nourishing yin, while Cistanche deserticola has the function of warming yang. However, the efficacy of both herbs is relatively mild, so it is not easy to damage yang qi when nourishing yin, and it is not easy to lose yin fluid when warming yang. When used in combination, they jointly play the role of nourishing yin and yang. Ligustrum lucidum also has the effect of promoting hair growth, and Cistanche deserticola also has the function of moistening intestines and promoting bowel movements. Therefore, these two medicines are particularly suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with yin and yang deficiency.