Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney controls water, and the kidney yang has a gasification transpiration effect on water. If the kidney yang is insufficient and the transpiration is weak, there will be clear and long urine and other manifestations, so the kidney yang deficiency syndrome has pathological changes in the kidney. Kidney deficiency is often caused by long-term accumulation of diseases. It is not advisable to rush for success and use tonifying drugs or unknown tonifying drugs for the kidney and yang. Instead, it should be gradually adjusted. Kidney yang, also known as Yuanyang, Zhenyang, and Zhenhuo, is the root of the twelve meridians, and the innate origin lies in the kidney. The kidney and the gate of life are essentially the same qi, serving as the hub for the growth and decline of yin and yang in the human body. Kidney yang dominates the yang qi of the body, and the decline of fire leads to the occurrence of yang deficiency syndrome.
Kidney Yang deficiency is related to the neuroendocrine immune system (NEIS) in modern medicine. Kidney Yang deficiency syndrome has different functional disorders in the hypothalamic pituitary target gland (adrenal cortex, thyroid, gonads, thymus) axis, and the main pathogenesis is the dysfunction of the hypothalamic (or higher central) regulatory function.
What are the common symptoms of male kidney yang deficiency
1. Dizziness and weakness, insomnia and dreaminess.
The kidney, as one of the important organs in the human body, nourishes and warms other organs. If other organs remain ill for a long time, it is easy to damage the kidneys. Many chronic diseases, such as chronic hepatitis, coronary heart disease, bronchial asthma, hypertension, etc., are often accompanied by symptoms of kidney deficiency. To fundamentally cure kidney deficiency, the fundamental approach is to completely cure other organ diseases, otherwise it is a "symptomatic but not fundamental" approach.
2. Asthmatic individuals.
The kidneys have the function of "absorbing qi". Due to kidney deficiency and inability to absorb qi, it can cause shortness of breath, excessive exhalation and insufficient inhalation, making it difficult for you to breathe freely. In severe cases, accompanied by asthma, symptoms such as increased wheezing and cold sweating may also occur. In clinical practice, in order to cure asthma, the root cause must be cut off, and symptoms can be alleviated by tonifying the kidneys and nourishing qi, enhancing physical fitness, and reducing the chance of recurrence.
3. Those with back pain and discomfort.
Low back pain is fundamentally due to kidney deficiency and can be divided into internal injury and strain. Internal injury kidney deficiency generally refers to congenital deficiency, prolonged illness, physical deficiency, or excessive fatigue. Mild individuals may have difficulty bending or standing upright, while severe individuals may experience symptoms such as heel pain and low back fatigue; Strain refers to physical overload or long-term work in the same fixed position (such as using a computer or driving), which can damage kidney qi and lead to insufficient kidney essence. If there is frequent low back pain and rest cannot solve the problem, then it should be considered to solve it by tonifying the kidneys.
4. Dizziness and tinnitus.
Many people have experienced a feeling of dizziness, which is not pleasant due to blurred eyes, spinning around, and nausea and vomiting. Moreover, dizziness patients often have tinnitus, which hinders hearing and can even lead to deafness in the long run. The causes of dizziness and tinnitus are often related to the liver and kidneys. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "the kidney stores essence and generates marrow, and the marrow gathers to form the brain." Therefore, kidney deficiency can lead to insufficient marrow, loss of nourishment in the brain, dizziness, and tinnitus. During treatment, kidney qi should be replenished, and if the essence is sufficient, the marrow will be full, and dizziness and tinnitus can naturally be eliminated.
5. Constipated individuals.
Constipated people often experience symptoms such as anal fissure and hemorrhoids due to difficulty in defecation, which affects their work and life and is unbearable. Although constipation belongs to the conduction dysfunction of the large intestine, its root cause is due to kidney deficiency, as the kidney opens the door to the two yin and governs the two stools. The conduction of stool must be stimulated and nourished by kidney qi to function properly. The treatment of constipation should start with the treatment of kidney deficiency, and take some traditional Chinese medicine with functions such as tonifying the kidney, promoting yang, nourishing essence and blood, and moistening the intestines to relieve constipation, such as Huomaren and Polygonum multiflorum.
6. Patients with low back pain and leg pain, frequent urination, and urgency.
Sitting in the car for a long time with a stiff and unchanging body, coupled with mental tension during driving, can lead to qi stagnation and blood stasis, ultimately leading to kidney deficiency. The doctor suggests that after driving for about an hour, you should get off the car and stretch your muscles and bones, while also resolving internal emergencies. Do not hold your urine for a long time, as holding it can cause symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, enuresis, vaginal pain, and increased nocturia.
How to Eat and Drink in Daily Life for Kidney Yang Deficiency Constitution
1. People with a Yang deficiency constitution in their daily diet should prioritize warming and tonifying, and avoid clearing and tonifying. And because people with yang deficiency constitution lack nutrients in their bodies, it is advisable to consume foods with higher calories and rich nutrients.
2. People with Yang deficiency constitution should try to drink as few cold drinks as possible in daily life, eat less or avoid raw, cold, frozen, and cold foods with obvious cold nature, because these foods have a significant impact on Yang deficiency constitution. If they consume foods and beverages with cold nature, it will increase the degree of Yang deficiency in the body of people with Yang deficiency constitution.
3. People with a yang deficiency constitution should eat more warm foods and fruits to supplement our body's yang deficiency. For example, some dried fruits such as walnuts can warm kidney yang, which is most suitable for people with frequent nocturia due to soreness and weakness in the waist and knees. Vegetables such as leeks, chili peppers, pumpkins, carrots, yams, and meat such as chicken, lamb, beef are all warm foods, We can eat more in our daily life, and also add some seasonings such as Chinese prickly ash, cumin, and cinnamon to stew meat, which are isothermal and beneficial for replenishing our body's yang energy.
4. People with yang deficiency constitution can also drink more Congee made from yams, red dates, chestnuts, glutinous rice, etc. in autumn and winter. This kind of Congee can not only warm the spleen and stomach, but also replenish the yang in our body.
5. People with Yang deficiency constitution must be careful not to consume too much salt and try to control their salt intake, as excessive salt intake can easily cause diseases such as poor urination, obesity, and hypertension.