The kidney can't be hurt, but it will be badly hurt.

If you need to raise your kidney, you must first understand what will hurt your kidney. In particular, we should know how to keep in good health and pay attention to it, otherwise some wrong behavior habits will damage kidney essence.

First, physical and mental fatigue, consumption of kidney essence.

The essence of kidney storage comes from both the essence of innate parents and the essence of acquired spleen and stomach Physical and mental exhaustion, the essence of heaven has been hurt one after another.

Overwork will damage the yang first, and then the essence. Such as marathon and triathlon, all of them are excessive consumption of kidney yang and kidney essence, which is not conducive to health.

Camp in fame and fortune, mental fatigue, but also hurt kidney essence. The kidney governs the marrow and the brain is the marrow sea. Excessive use of the brain will gradually hurt the medullary sea, which is also a kidney injury.

Many times, the purpose of our fitness is to be healthy. Therefore, fitness should be moderate and not excessive. Generally speaking, exercise can produce yang, and it will be warmer when it is cold, but too much exercise will not produce yang, but will consume it and get colder and colder. If you continue to do a lot of exercise repeatedly, the yang will be damaged to a certain extent, thus damaging the kidney essence. Don't you see that marathon and Tour de France athletes are thin, that is, they exercise too much and consume kidney essence.

Fame and fortune must be pursued, but we also need to do what we can. If the excessive pursuit of fame and fortune makes the mind tired, then it is not beautiful for fame and fortune to hurt the kidney essence. Besides, even if you are rich and famous, you need a healthy body to enjoy the joy of success. Otherwise, without health and fame, what's the point?

Second, the fire moves wildly and disturbs the kidney essence.

Seeing beautiful women with evil thoughts, watching porn or thinking about lust will cause the fire to move wildly and disturb the Jing Palace. Although there is no injury, the kidney essence is secretly consumed, which is the most unfavorable to health.

Moreover, it is human nature to envy other people's wealth and status, and it is also the driving force of life. But if you are immersed in envy and don't know how to control it, it is also fire.

Therefore, young people need to work hard to cultivate mindfulness, set their minds at ease, stop evil thoughts and cultivate a noble and upright spirit, so naturally they will not move rashly. In addition, if the fire can't be controlled, you can eat some bitter food or traditional Chinese medicine, such as bitter gourd, coffee, coptis root, scutellaria root and so on. Bitter taste can strengthen kidney yin, purge heart fire, clear fire and tonify kidney.

Third, excessive consumption of kidney essence during sexual intercourse.

Temperance in sexual intercourse is refreshing and healthy. The house is overworked, which is the most harmful to kidney essence and even short-lived. The ancients had clear instructions: you can't enter the house when you are drunk, when the weather changes dramatically, and when the weather changes. If you covet temporary enjoyment and don't know how to support it, you will hurt your kidney and lose your essence, and you will regret it.

Especially in winter, yang is trapped in kidney water. If you have excessive sexual intercourse at this time, the collected kidney essence will leak out. When you are young, you may not feel hurt, but you will feel refreshed. Or long-term essence failure, rapid renal failure after middle age, or listlessness, or memory loss, or premature hair spots, or weak waist and knees, or cold hands and feet. Are signs of kidney essence injury.

Fourth, long-term illness tonifying the kidney, from the outside to the inside.

The invasion of evil spirits is superficial at first, and most of them belong to Sanyang. If the resistance of healthy qi is insufficient, evil spirits will sink into the level of three yin. In other words, if there is insufficient yin and yang, evil spirits may also go straight from the sun into the yin and yang. The hand with less yin belongs to the heart, and the foot with less yin belongs to the kidney. Pathogens enter shaoyin, heart or kidney. If you enter the heart, you will be flustered; When entering the kidney, the waist is soft and the urine is turbid.

Furthermore, if the healthy qi is sufficient, the initial condition is still light, and it can be cured quickly; If healthy qi is weak, the disease will exist for a long time, gradually enter the kidney, and the symptoms will worsen and linger. Pathogens entering the kidney will damage kidney qi; However, if the essence in the kidney is insufficient, the pathogenic factors are weak, which makes it difficult for the disease to heal, thus forming a vicious circle, which will be cured after a long time.

Moreover: long-term sleep will consume the essence in the kidney, so avoid long-term sleep when tonifying the kidney; Sleeping at sea can tonify the kidney; Teeth are bones, and healthy teeth can nourish the kidneys; Kidney is full of qi, and hair care can nourish the kidney; The kidney is the ear and the second yin. Kneading the ear or massaging the scrotum and testicles can nourish the kidney. Nourishing the heart can keep the heart from moving, so the kidney is fine; Homologous essence and blood, homologous liver and kidney, mutual transformation of essence and blood. Blood injury means sperm injury, and liver injury means kidney injury. Kidney governs water, Shui Han, cold will hurt the kidney, so keep warm and cold to nourish the kidney; This and so on are all ways to tonify the kidney. If it is summarized by the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it will be meaningful.

Winter is a good time to tonify kidney, especially during the period from light snow to severe cold. At this time, the sun is shining and the ground is cold, but the ground is warm. If you properly warm your kidney, it will help to keep healthy. Moreover, if the seriously ill patients with kidney deficiency and long-term illness can make use of the power of heaven and earth to properly replenish and nourish their kidneys in winter, it will also help them recover as soon as possible.

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Nourishing kidney and tonifying kidney

One is that the kidney tastes salty.

Salty hurts the kidney. Too salty diet will damage kidney essence, leading to insufficient essence, while rising deficiency fire will lead to hypertension, stroke and other symptoms.

Avoid salt after fracture, because the kidney dominates the bone, and once the bone is broken, it can no longer hurt the kidney. In other words, all bone diseases, including bone tuberculosis, bone cancer and osteoporosis, need to avoid salt or less salt, so that the treatment effect is good.

Even if you have never seen kidney damage, you should have less salt in your diet. Modern research holds that the salt per person should not exceed 6 grams per day, which is not easy to grasp, but we should always be careful not to eat salty food.

Some people say that if cooked food or soup is too salty, would it be better for me to add some water before drinking it? In fact, it is meaningless to do so, because there is no less salt entering the body.

Patients with long illness and serious illness need to avoid salt most, need a light diet, recuperate slowly, and drink cereal together to recover. Moreover, all kidney diseases, such as acute or chronic nephritis, renal failure, renal insufficiency and so on. Salt needs to be avoided until they recover. If you can't avoid salt, it will be difficult to heal, and it will also lead to unpredictable consequences. Modern research believes that patients with hypertension and heart disease should not eat too salty, otherwise it will increase the burden on the heart. In fact, this is also the embodiment of salty injury to the kidney.

Chinese medicine believes that if pathogenic factors enter the kidney, its symptoms are mostly abdominal distension, swelling of lower limbs, heavy body, lethargy, bone pain and so on. Furthermore, if it belongs to kidney yin deficiency, it is manifested as dizziness, dizziness, tinnitus, forgetfulness, soreness of waist and knees, hot flashes, night sweats, red cheeks, dry mouth, dizziness, tinnitus, nocturnal emission, female sexual intercourse and other symptoms; If it is kidney-yang deficiency, it is manifested as mental fatigue, weakness of waist and knees, cold limbs, dysuria, impotence and nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation and cold sperm, and female infertility due to cold uterus. If you have such symptoms, you should pay attention to eating less or not eating salt to avoid excessive kidney damage and affect your recovery.

Chinese medicine believes that: sweet wins salty. Sweetness can alleviate the kidney-purging effect of salty taste. People with kidney deficiency may wish to eat something sweet and black, and use the sweet and salty effect to achieve the effect of tonifying kidney. In fact, kidney-tonifying foods such as "Black Five Categories" are mostly sweet.

Second, the kidney is afraid of ambition.

I'm afraid of hurting my kidneys. Fear leads to anger. When people encounter fear, their lower limbs are often weak, they can hardly stand up, and even have incontinence, which is a manifestation of fear of hurting their kidneys.

It is not easy to nourish the kidney, so we should try our best to avoid damaging the kidney. So things that are prone to fear should be avoided as much as possible.

For example, don't go alone at night. Night is cloudy, especially in the mountains. If the human body has insufficient yang, it is easy to get sick at night due to the invasion of yin. If there is a ghost in your heart, walking at night will scare yourself and hurt your kidneys and essence. Especially at night, when a person passes through the cemetery, he is most taboo to raise kidneys.

Some people are afraid of heights. If they stand on a high place and look down, their lower limbs will be weak. In this case, try not to stand too high and look down, so as not to hurt the kidney because of fear. For example, the Oriental Pearl, hundreds of meters high, is the last place for people who are afraid of heights.

Horror movies are so popular that I can't understand them. I'm too scared to turn off the lights to sleep and stay in the house alone. Why bother? Watching a horror film will form a horrible memory for many years, and you will be afraid in the dark or when you sleep alone, which will make kidney essence consume all the time.

Some people like to listen to ghost stories and even tell them. It's exciting to scare others silently. Don't you know that fear comes from listening to ghost stories, which can also hurt the kidney and essence? Why did Confucius "not talk about Machamp's confusion"? I think Machamp's confusion is illusory, which hurts the kidneys and is not conducive to the progress of life. Why do you say it?

Some people like to scare others, hiding in a corner first, waiting for someone to come over, and suddenly jumping out to scare people; Or, jump out at night in ghost clothes to scare people; Even medical students lie in the autopsy room and suddenly sit up, scaring people when they come to study, and so on. It is very inappropriate to hurt other people's kidney essence for their own stimulation. People are frightened by fear, from mental disorder to palpitation, from fear to kidney deficiency and coma and death.

Chinese medicine believes that thinking is better than fear. Do you remember the fable of bow and snake shadow? This is an example of thinking over fear. I'm not afraid when I understand.

Third, the kidney produces fluid.

Saliva is produced by the essence in the kidney. Saliva gets kidney qi, which is most helpful for warming kidney.

You can gently buckle your teeth 72 times in your spare time, and then stir your tongue around your mouth 12 times, which will gradually produce saliva. Then swallow it slowly in three small mouths and introduce saliva into the abdomen with your mind. This is the best way to keep fit and help digestion.

Spitting everywhere is a bad habit. Spitting everywhere is unhealthy and harmful to the kidneys.

If you don't spit, you can nourish your kidney, but if you spit, it will hurt your kidney. The ancients said: it hurts to spit far away, it hurts to spit near, and it doesn't hurt if you don't spit. When I was a child, I was ignorant and competed with children to see who vomited far. Now think about it, this is not a good game, at least it will hurt the kidney. It's just that the child's kidney is healthy and healthy, and it doesn't hurt. Furthermore, from the point of view of Chinese medicine, spitting is harmful to qi and spirit. Because saliva is the fluid of the kidney, and because the heart is in charge of storing the spirit, the essence can turn qi into vitality, so too much saliva will lead to the loss of yin essence in the kidney and damage qi and spirit.

Saliva is different from sputum. If you have phlegm in your mouth, you need to spit it out. It has nothing to do with spitting.

Fourth, the kidney is black.

Black nourishes kidney. There is a folk saying in China that black food has the unique effects of anti-aging, health care, longevity, disease prevention, treatment and blackening hair, which is actually the embodiment of black entering the kidney.

To nourish the kidney, you can eat more black food, such as black beans, black sesame seeds, black dates, black rice, black fungus and so on. Another example is black Chinese medicine, such as Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Mulberry, Colla cornus Cervi, and Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata. In addition, dark chocolate also has the function of nourishing kidney. Modern research believes that it can resist oxidation, which is probably the performance of tonifying kidney. It is believed that the darker the color of chocolate, the higher the cocoa content, and the stronger its antioxidant effect, especially the pure cocoa bar without sugar.

In addition, European supermarkets also have juice drinks made of blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, etc., which are black in color, sweet in taste and have a good kidney-tonifying effect.

Black-bone chicken bone color black, into the kidney. Black-bone chicken stew soup can best tonify kidney essence. In ancient times, Wuji Baifeng Pill had the effect of tonifying kidney and regulating menstruation.

There are many ways to tonify the kidney. The above is just a brief introduction.

According to the essence of Neijing, kidney is related to north, cold, water, salty, bone, ear, black, feather, trembling, groaning and fear. If we can understand it deeply, then the methods of tonifying kidney are all in it.

-Excerpted from Dr. Dong Hongtao's Sina blog.

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Attachment: the method of tonifying kidney that Taoism has spread for thousands of years.

Exercise 1: Breathing Heart Method-Nourishing Kidney Qi

Exercise: Stand up straight, feet shoulder-width apart, arms straight, and cross at the back of your head. At this time, the lower abdomen leans forward slightly, hands are as straight as possible and then pressed down, and all strength and thoughts are concentrated on the lumbar spine.

Then the strength comes from the lumbar spine, so that the arms are pressed down to the sides of the body from the back of the head with the maximum arc, and at the same time, the hands are finally crossed between the knees, and finally the mind is concentrated on the forefoot for 5 seconds. Heels can't leave the ground.

(When the arm is pressed to both sides, the arm is not exerting force, but the waist is exerting force. )

When you stand up again, first use the forefoot as the starting energy, and then all the strength and thoughts are concentrated on the lumbar spine again. Don't use any strength on your legs, stand up.

Hands have been crossed, from the chest-all the way to the top of the head-to the back of the head. When standing, your head and feet are behind, your lower abdomen is forward, and your body is arched. )

Breathing method: the whole process of squatting, exhaling. The whole process of standing up, inhale. Hold your breath for two seconds during the breathing transition. (Abdominal breathing is best)

Practice time should be based on personal physique, and don't feel tired. After practice, many people will feel backache, so they need to pat their lower back with their hands empty.

Reaction: Usually after practicing for two minutes, you will sweat slightly and your feet will get hot. Some people burp and fart. The method of throwing solid balls with both hands at the same time has the same effect.

As for the long-term effect, I feel it myself. If you have discomfort symptoms such as abdominal pain, backache, etc., you can massage Fu Liu and Taixi points to solve them quickly.

Exercise 2: Fire-inducing method-tonifying kidney, replenishing essence and regulating qi and blood.

Click on the fountain, that is, click on the foot. Before going to bed every night, wash your feet with warm water, sit cross-legged on the bed, hold your toes with one hand and touch your feet with the other. Every time you click, you will feel a dull pain.

Yongquan is the acupoint of the kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin. Rubbing this acupoint can strengthen the body and prolong life.

The most important thing is to deposit money in the bank. In other words, it is a strong kidney.

Exercise 3: the intersection of heart and kidney-strengthening kidney essence and treating all ear diseases.

Heart-kidney intersection method 1: Ming ancient days

The first method of intersection between heart and kidney is called Ming ancient days. The back of our head is called the ancient sky. Ming and ancient days need our listening points and Laogong points.

Laogong point of the human body is the most tiring point, it is a fire point, just like when we have a stomachache, we will immediately cover our stomachs unconsciously, so it is very tiring.

The specific method of singing drums is:

First, use our palms, that is, stick the ear hole with Laogong point, put the whole hand on the back of the head, put the index finger on the middle finger, and then bounce down to produce a hitting force.

As long as you press the listening point hard, then move the back of your head, play a few times, then press it tightly, and then suddenly relax, your ears will have a particularly refreshing feeling. Doing this often has a great effect on the health care of the ears.

Heart-kidney intersection method 2: massage listening points

The second one is called massage listening point. What should I do to massage the listening point in my ear? In fact, the intersection of heart and kidney is still used.

The fingertip of the middle finger is the well point of the pericardium meridian, which belongs to the heart, and the ears and eyes belong to the kidney.

First, the palm is backward, and then the middle finger is inserted into the ear hole. After inserting the middle finger, turn the finger inward 180 degrees, make the palm forward, and then twist the finger inward slightly.

Be careful, don't force the pestle, twist it gently, move it gently like a bug, massage it for 20 or 30 seconds, and then suddenly pull out your fingers, so you'd better hear the sound.

This is a method of completely massaging the listening point. If your fingers get stuck in your ears, you will feel a sense of adhesion and suction at your fingertips, which is the feeling of too much moisture. Then, after the massage, take out your fingers.

Note: Here is a reminder. Do any action on the principle of no injury, that is to say, the action should be light, soft and slow, and the nails must be hinged neatly. Then gently massage the hearing hole inside the ear with your fingertips, and don't hurt your ear.

Heart-kidney intersection method 3: Kneading the palms of feet-tonifying kidney water, reducing deficiency fire and dredging qi.

There is a point on the sole of the foot called Yongquan, and the point on the hand is called Laogong point. When we are free, we can sit on the bed, cross our hands, rub the soles of our feet with our palms, or pat the soles of our feet with our palms.

Doing so will help the kidney to play the role of collection, pull down the qi and drag down the virtual fire above, so that the qi will not be trapped inside, and the disease will naturally recover.

If you breathe into the atmosphere, you may be deaf and tinnitus. Then, rubbing the soles of your feet with your palm will help us dredge the qi of the human body. When the qi is smooth, the meridians are opened, and the ear disease will naturally be fine.

But also help to improve sleep, which is very beneficial to patients with hypertension.

Heart-kidney intersection method 4: ear rubbing method-dredging qi and blood

Cover your ears and rub the back of your ears with the root of your palm. But it should be noted that it is not the skin behind the ear, but the ear behind the ear. When I rub it, I think so in my head, as if I have rubbed it into my ear hole through the back of my ear.

When you rub it for two or three minutes, your ears itch, which proves that the qi and blood in your ears have come over. Long-term rubbing will solve the problem of tinnitus and deafness.

In addition, you must close your eyes when rubbing, because the seven orifices are connected. Open your eyes after rubbing, and you will find that your eyes become very bright.

Exercise 4: Don't talk when going to the toilet-consolidate kidney qi.

Chinese medicine believes that you must grind your teeth when urinating in the toilet, so that you can hold the kidney gas firmly, especially for men who have great damage to kidney essence.

Why is this? Because the tooth is the tooth of the kidney, it is the expression of the essence of the kidney. But you can't grind your teeth indiscriminately, and biting hard will consume more kidney gas; It should be "two kidney teeth are biting", and "such as" means that there is a jujube pit between two posterior molars, slightly biting.

When I relieve myself, I breathe in and breathe in, so I can't open it. Bite your teeth and lift your heels, which is equivalent to supplementing kidney qi.

In life, we often see people talking loudly with their mobile phones while urinating in the toilet, which is a waste of kidney qi. This is absolutely not allowed in the traditional health culture, which is extremely harmful to the body.

Exercise 5: Percussion-Strengthening Kidney

Teeth are the surplus gas of bones, and kidneys dominate bones. When people reach a certain age, kidney qi will gradually weaken and teeth will loosen.

The meridians in the teeth are connected with the kidney meridians. As long as the teeth are strong, they can play an anti-solid role in the kidney and make the kidney strong.

A good way to strengthen teeth is to knock more teeth. 300 in the morning, just hit them with two teeth in the upper and lower rows. It's that simple.

Note: the impact place is mainly the back molar. Don't let the front teeth knock first.

After knocking for a few days, you will feel that your face is very rosy, and the original sallow and dark face has disappeared. This is that qi and blood are continuously supplied to the head, the gastrointestinal function will be significantly improved, and eating and sleeping will be particularly fragrant.

Kidney-qi deficiency, anxiety, kidney essence can not be supplemented in a day or two, the above methods can be practiced from time to time as health care, day after day, after a long time, you will feel the benefits.

The content of this article is only for clinical thinking reference. Non-Chinese medicine professionals should not try drugs.