First, the reasons for the formation of Yang deficiency constitution
Yang deficiency constitution mainly comes from innate endowment and is related to parents. Parents with yang deficiency constitution, too old for marriage and childbearing, overeating during pregnancy and cold will all affect the fetus and promote yang deficiency constitution.
Long-term use of antibiotics, hormones, diuretics, traditional Chinese medicines for clearing away heat and toxic materials, or preventive drinking of herbal tea with or without illness, or liking a frozen and cold diet, or excessive sexual life will lead to or aggravate yang deficiency constitution.
The yang of the elderly is gradually weakening, and the age factor is inevitable for anyone. Therefore, the old people's low back pain, nocturia and fear of cold are signs of aging, not diseases.
Yang deficiency constitution is also related to the working environment. For example, in the past, women workers in canneries washed cans for a long time and their hands were always immersed in cold water; There are also miners, workers in frozen warehouses of meat processing plants, etc. After working in a cold and humid environment for a lifetime, it is easy to show obvious yang deficiency constitution in middle-aged and elderly people.
People with yang deficiency constitution, if the pulse is heavy and thin, but have a good appetite, should pay attention to this situation is easy to get fat. Hair easily falls off, leading to premature baldness. People with yang deficiency in the body have shallow sleep and are easy to wake up. Poor sleep may be the cause of common obesity and dark circles in yang deficiency constitution.
Dark circles not only affect people's appearance, but also give people a feeling of bad spirit and illness, which will "damage beauty". Before treating diseases that damage beauty, we should ask four questions: ask menstruation, ask stool, ask sleep and ask mood. These four questions can basically ask where the root of the problem lies. In treatment, it is mainly to adjust stool, menstruation, sleep and mood. When encountering insomnia at ordinary times, most people consider deficiency of both heart, spleen and blood, hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency, disharmony of stomach, restlessness, or deficiency of yang leading to stagnation of yin. If you have poor sleep due to yang deficiency, you can moxibustion Shenque (navel), Guanyuan and Zhongji points. And the effect is often good.
People with yang deficiency are very prone to osteoporosis in menopause and old age. Many Chinese patent medicines for the treatment of osteoporosis are for tonifying kidney and strengthening yang.
Chronic colitis and yang deficiency constitution also have a causal relationship with each other.
People with yang deficiency are prone to arthralgia. Arthralgia syndrome refers to joint pain, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and so on. Due to the invasion of pathogenic wind, cold and dampness, blood vessels are blocked. Female rheumatoid arthritis is mainly characterized by qi deficiency and yang deficiency. Therefore, in the treatment of rheumatoid disease, we should not only treat the disease itself, but also adjust the patient's physique and replenish yang and qi.
People with yang deficiency are prone to edema. Because of yang deficiency, water can't diffuse upward through yang transpiration, but flows downward, so it stagnates locally and forms edema, especially up and down the ankle joints of lower limbs.
For women with yang deficiency, dysmenorrhea, delayed menstruation and amenorrhea are common. Women with yang deficiency are very sensitive to the cold before menstruation. Even if they catch a cold before menstruation, taking some antibiotics, Qingkailing and antiviral oral liquid will cause obvious dysmenorrhea and delayed menstruation. If it's delayed for less than a week, it's generally unnecessary, but it's always delayed, 45 days this month, 50 days next month, and sometimes it doesn't come, so we need to pay close attention to treatment. Yang deficiency combined with irregular menstruation is easy to get cold in the uterus and difficult to get pregnant.
Second, the main manifestations of yang deficiency constitution
People with yang deficiency are afraid of cold, especially in the back and abdomen. In winter, their elbows are cold and their feet are cold. Many young women also have cold hands and feet, but if only the fingers and toes are cold or the cold does not exceed the wrists and ankles, it is not necessarily yang deficiency, which is related to blood deficiency, qi deficiency, qi stagnation and muscle weakness.
People with yang deficiency should pay special attention to protecting the back and front abdomen. Even if it is not yang deficiency, you should pay attention. I often remind girls that they must pay attention to wearing clothes, especially the abdomen, navel, abdomen and lumbosacral region, and must not be exposed to wind and rain. It is where Yuanyang is and where the pelvic cavity is. Menstruation, pelvic congestion, preparation for menstruation. As a result, your navel is exposed in front of your lower body and your thigh groove is exposed in the back. When the cold wind blows, the blood circulation in the pelvic cavity will definitely be affected, leading to dysmenorrhea or decreased menstruation and delayed menstruation. If this continues, there will be blood stasis, and menstruation, childbirth and menopause will be affected. Nowadays, there are so many menstrual diseases in women, which are the accumulation of bad living habits.
Nocturnal enuresis is common in yang deficiency constitution, and the urine is clear and white. Drinking water passes through the intestine, and it is directly urinated out, lacking transpiration and gasification. Not only do you urinate a lot during the day, but you have to get up two or three times at night. Nocturnal urine in the elderly is mostly a manifestation of normal aging of yang. If children wet the bed, middle-aged and young people often urinate at night, that is yang deficiency. Be careful not to eat more cold and frozen food, and try to use less antibiotics and traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials to protect yang.
Some people urinate frequently and have a lot of nocturia, but the amount is very small every time. It is not really too much urine, but spiritual guidance. Before going to bed, when nervous, going out, going to work and looking at the toilet, I want to urinate repeatedly, which is very common in neurotic and sensitive people; Urination in winter is also significantly higher than that in summer or occasional nocturia; Some women drink a lot of water and urinate a lot for skin beauty, whether they need it or not. None of these can be regarded as yang deficiency.
Yang deficiency constitution will often have diarrhea, especially in the morning. Yang deficiency without firepower, incomplete transformation, will often have diarrhea. What's more serious is to eat whatever you pull. For example, when eating green vegetables, if you eat them too fast and chew them incompletely, leaves and stems will be pulled off.
Yang deficiency constitution is mainly related to the relative deficiency of kidney yang. Kidney controls reproduction, bone and lower coke, and less ascites transpiration. Therefore, after entering middle age, the constitution with yang deficiency will show early signs of kidney-yang aging, such as decreased libido, apathy or pain in heels, waist and legs, edema of lower limbs, etc., which are only found in the elderly. Women can see more leucorrhea, clear and transparent, and leucorrhea increases whenever they are cold or tired.
People with yang deficiency tend to have sparse hair, dark circles and black lips. Although hair grows on the head, its nutritional basis and growth motivation come from the kidney, so it is "kidney-filled". Kidney stores essence, produces blood, and blood raises hair. Therefore, people with insufficient blood and essence, such as those with surgical trauma, chronic blood loss, severe anemia and burnout, will lose their hair. The driving force of hair growth lies in kidney yang, so the hair is sparse and yellow and soft from childhood, which is common in yang deficiency and blood deficiency. Why are dark circles or dull lips common? From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, kidney-yang deficiency usually drags down the yang of the spleen and stomach, leading to spleen-kidney yang deficiency, that is, spleen-kidney yang deficiency, and eyes and lips will react to the spleen.
The common constitution of yang deficiency is that the tongue is fat and tender, and the pulse is heavy and thin. The tongue looks tender, just like a baby's tongue; The pulse condition is very thin. At first, I couldn't seem to feel the pulse. When I touched it further, I found that the pulse was hidden in it, very weak. This is because Yang is not strong enough.
I want to put forward a special and common manifestation of yang deficiency constitution: upper heat and lower cold. This is because the yang in the lower jiao is obviously weak, and the foundation is not firm. Yang deficiency floats on the five senses of the head and face, resulting in yang deficiency and yin excess below the navel, and symptoms such as polyuria, nocturia, hunchback, cold pain in the waist and legs, and thin leucorrhea appear. The common head and facial features are toothache, halitosis, blushing, acne, irritability and insomnia. It should be said that cold is true and heat is false. Therefore, I would like to remind you that you don't have to take drugs to clear away heat and toxic materials and reduce fire.
Because of the lack of yang, my personality is relatively calm and my mood will be depressed. Therefore, people with qi deficiency and yang deficiency are prone to depression.
Third, how to regulate yang deficiency constitution?
1. First of all, you need to pay special attention to your diet. Never eat cold food. No matter how hot your body feels, or how hot it is outside, you can't drink cold drinks. At the same time, don't take food directly from the refrigerator. Be sure to leave the food taken out of the refrigerator at room temperature for a while before eating.
2, pay attention to keep warm, whether it is cold or hot all year round, we must do a good job of keeping warm. It is very important to keep warm in some key parts, such as chest, abdomen, waist, knees and shoulders. Female friends can't wear some revealing clothes or miniskirts for the sake of beauty, especially in winter. In addition, it is better to cover a thin quilt when sleeping in summer, which is better for your health.
3. Do it more gently. Aerobic exercise, people with yang deficiency must choose moderate exercise, aerobic exercise is the best, such as Tai Ji Chuan, jogging and brisk walking are all good choices, and never swim for a long time. In addition, people with this constitution should not exercise excessively or choose high-intensity exercise, because a lot of sweating will lead to the leakage of yang in the body, which is not conducive to health.
You can't blow the air conditioner for a long time in summer. For modern people, blowing air conditioning in summer is a good way to escape the heat. In fact, it is not good for patients with yang deficiency. Besides blowing air conditioning, taking a bath before going to bed, sleeping when your hair is dry, etc. They are all bad habits, which can easily lead to damage to the body. Whether it is a patient with yang deficiency or other patients, soaking feet in hot water is a good way to keep fit.
5, eat more hot ingredients, many ingredients in life are hot, such as Toona sinensis, onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, pepper, coriander and so on. In addition, you can choose hot pot to take in winter, which is good for your health.
6. How to recuperate yang deficiency constitution? You can usually eat some tonics, such as Shiquan Dabu Decoction, Lizhong Decoction, Sijunzi Decoction, Shenqi Pill and Gui You Pill. These Chinese patent medicines are good for your health and can also regulate your health. However, it should be noted that it is best to consult a doctor before taking these tonics, rather than taking them casually.
Fourth, the principle of yang deficiency constitution health preservation.
First, eat less or not eat cold and frozen products.
Foods with obvious coldness have a great influence on the constitution of yang deficiency. In terms of drinks, there are iced drinks, iced juice and fresh coconut juice; Fresh fruits and vegetables include citrus, grapefruit, banana, watermelon, melon, pitaya, horseshoe, pear, persimmon, loquat, sugarcane, bitter gourd, cucumber, loofah, celery and bamboo shoots; Others include mung beans, green tea, kelp, seaweed, snails, crabs and so on. If you are greedy and want to eat the above foods, first, eat less; Second, it can be eaten with warm food; Third, try not to eat cold vegetables. It is best to stew, steam and cook with boiling water. I have a friend with yang deficiency who likes sugar cane very much, but once he eats it, he feels uncomfortable. She thought of a way to cut it into small pieces and steam it before eating. It won't taste or hurt the spirit of the sun.
People with yang deficiency drink less watermelon juice, bitter gourd juice, cucumber juice and Sydney juice. These fruits and vegetables are cold. If it is iced again, it will get colder and colder, hurting the yang. About 20 years ago, a friend once invited me to dinner. Because the weather is very hot and my mouth is dry and bitter, I ordered a cup of raw bitter gourd juice. I watched the waiter squeeze a big and fat bitter gourd into a glass of green juice and put some ice casually. After I drank it, my abdomen was cold that night, my pain was unbearable, and I had diarrhea. The next morning, my tongue was thick and greasy, my face was pale, my mouth was few, and I didn't want to eat. I am more afraid of the cold than usual, and I don't want to blow the air conditioner. Obviously, I overeating and catching cold hurt my spleen and stomach. This experience left a deep impression on me. If you want to eat bitter gourd in summer, you must find a way to get rid of its cold. For example, using the pot method, bitter gourd and fresh lean pork are badly cooked and delicious, with both meaty and bitter taste, which does not hurt the yang. Some people like to eat cold bitter gourd. You can soak it in boiling water first, and then add some shredded ginger or garlic juice. Ginger and garlic are hot, which can alleviate the coldness of bitter gourd.
Many women eat a lot of fruit every day because they want to be beautiful. Eating fruit is really good for your skin, but it depends on your physique. For example, people with yang deficiency, qi deficiency and phlegm dampness eat too much fruit, which will affect the function of the spleen and stomach, not only bad for the skin, but also hurt the spleen and stomach.
Second, reduce salt intake. A salty diet with yang deficiency can easily cause obesity, swelling, dysuria and high blood pressure.
Third, people with yang deficiency can eat more warm food.
Fruits include litchi, durian, cherry, longan, chestnut, jujube, walnut, cashew nuts, pine nuts and so on. The most typical dried fruit is walnut, which can warm kidney and strengthen yang, and is most suitable for people with weak waist and knees and nocturia.
Vegetables include ginger, leek, pepper, pumpkin, carrot, yam and bean sprouts. The iron stick yam in Henan is the best. People with yang deficiency and qi deficiency often drink yam, chestnut, red dates and glutinous rice porridge in autumn and winter, which not only warms the body and nourishes the stomach, but also tonifies the yang.
Meat products include mutton, beef, dog meat, venison, chicken and so on. Mutton is gentle and soft, which can tonify yang, replenish qi and enrich blood. When you are cooking mutton soup, you can put some angelica and Paeonia lactiflora in it, which can replenish yang and blood. People with cold hands and feet in winter can drink Danggui Ginger Mutton Soup, which is Zhang Zhongjing's diet prescription in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Dog meat is strong, just dry and yang deficiency. Eating too much dog meat can replenish yang, but it will also replenish deficiency fire. Therefore, dog meat can only be eaten in moderation, not more. Then how to relieve the stiffness of dog meat? You can eat dog meat hot pot with some herbal tea, millet porridge, white rice oil (also called rice paste) or rock sugar stewed tremella.
Aquatic products include shrimp, Monopterus albus, sea cucumber, abalone and mussel. There are two delicious dishes-fried shrimps with leeks and fried walnuts with leeks, which can improve yang deficiency and are especially suitable for men.
Seasonings include maltose, black tea, pepper, ginger, fennel, cinnamon and so on. In winter, stewed meat such as pepper, ginger, fennel and cinnamon is better.