Dr. Shen, an expert in tonifying kidney in traditional Chinese medicine, pointed out: ● The kidney is an important organ in charge of growth, development and reproduction. Sufficient kidney essence can lead to normal development, with clear ears and eyes, clear mind, quick thinking, black hair and strong sexual function. ● Young and middle-aged people are prone to kidney yin deficiency, while middle-aged and elderly people are prone to kidney yang deficiency. ● Fear of cold, cold hands and feet, yellow urine, constipation, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, etc. Most of them are manifestations of yin deficiency. Five upset fever, prolonged urination, loose stool, impotence, etc. Most of them are manifestations of yang deficiency. Simply put, kidney deficiency is the deficiency of kidney essence and yin and yang, which is a problem of kidney function in traditional Chinese medicine. What we usually call kidney deficiency includes kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, as well as kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. The problem of kidney deficiency involves many basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand. In addition, the current propaganda is not detailed enough, which confuses many problems, so more people are confused. Let me briefly introduce kidney deficiency to give you a general impression of kidney deficiency. As I said just now, kidney deficiency is the deficiency of essence and yin and yang of kidney, so how to understand essence and yin and yang? Kidney yin and kidney essence belong to substance, and kidney yang and kidney qi belong to function, which can be roughly understood as follows. For example, if you cook with a rice cooker, rice and water are the substances you need to cook, and the soup making function and cooking function are the functions of the rice cooker you need to cook. If there is no rice at home, you will lose the material you cook. If the cooking function of the rice cooker is broken, your cooking function will be lost. It's as simple as that. Kidney yin deficiency returns to people. If your essence and yin are insufficient, your body will be short of material. If your qi and yang are insufficient, your body function will be insufficient. In life, many people don't pay attention to health and consume a lot of physical materials, such as having too much sex, or using their brains too much and overworking, which will make their bodies lack of material. Then there is the congenital deficiency when you were born, so your parents give you little material, and of course your body is short of material. When the body material is insufficient, people will have dizziness, tinnitus, weakness of limbs, weakness of waist and knees, memory loss, aging, hair loss, loose teeth and other problems, as well as decreased sexual desire, premature ejaculation and nocturnal emission, all of which are attributed to kidney yin deficiency. Yin deficiency is flourishing, so people with yin deficiency are prone to "five upset and hot". What is "five hearts"? Just two palms, two soles and one heart. People with yin deficiency always feel that five hearts have a feeling of heat. There is also easy night sweats. What is night sweats? Is to sweat when you sleep and not to sweat when you wake up. Who is prone to kidney yin deficiency? Young and middle-aged people. Young and middle-aged people are the most energetic and burdened stages in their lives. Whether studying, working or exercising, the body will consume a lot of material. In addition, young people have a strong demand for human nature and consume a lot of materials. As I said just now, there are two levels of kidney deficiency, one is material and belongs to yin deficiency, and the other is functional, that is, yang deficiency. The refrigerator doesn't cool, the washing machine can't rinse clothes, the TV doesn't display, and the mobile phone can't answer, all of which are functional problems. Speaking of people, what will happen if there is something wrong with people's functions? If sexual function is poor, impotence is a typical example. If you can't get an erection normally, is there something wrong with your function? There is also long urine and thin stool. Why? Eat the food in your stomach, drink the water, substances or those substances in your stomach. Why are other people's stools and urine normal, while yours is not? Obviously, there is something wrong with your body's function of turning water and rice into urine and stool! Yang deficiency leads to external cold, so people with yang deficiency are afraid of cold. Therefore, people with yang deficiency also have a characteristic of being afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, and pale face. Simple distinction between kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency So how to distinguish between kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency? Let me tell you a few simple methods. (1) Age: Generally speaking, young and middle-aged people are prone to kidney yin deficiency, while middle-aged and elderly people are prone to kidney yang deficiency. The reason is very simple. As mentioned above, young and middle-aged people have a heavy burden, consume a lot of physical materials, and are prone to material shortage, so they often have yin deficiency; Middle-aged people are different from the elderly. Their physical energy consumption is much smaller, but their body organs are gradually aging, and the performance of "parts" is much worse than before, and their functions are often not good, so functional kidney deficiency, that is, kidney yang deficiency, often occurs. (2) Look at hot and cold: afraid of cold and cold, cold hands and feet are yang deficiency; Five upset and hot, easy night sweats is yin deficiency. (3) Sexual function: People with yin deficiency have more premature ejaculation and nocturnal emission; People with yang deficiency have more impotence. (4) Look at the second stool: people with yellow urine and constipation mostly belong to yin deficiency; People with long urine and loose stools are mostly yang deficiency. Of course, there are many similarities between kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, such as listlessness, weakness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, and accelerated aging. Moreover, there are cases of deficiency of yin and yang, so-called yin and yang, and yang and yin are the truth. We should learn to treat kidney deficiency with a holistic view and treat it dialectically. How far are you from kidney deficiency-who is prone to kidney deficiency? Dr. Shen, an expert on kidney disease in traditional Chinese medicine: ● After men are 40 years old, women will have kidney deficiency more or less after they are 35 years old. ● People who often stay up late, people who have long been nervous, people who smoke and drink too much, sedentary people, people with congenital deficiency, the elderly, patients with chronic diseases, people who have frequent sexual life, people who marry early when they are immature, and people who have never had sexual life but have excessive lust are prone to kidney deficiency. Kidney deficiency is a natural physiological phenomenon. Generally speaking, men over 40 years old and women over 35 years old will have kidney deficiency more or less. However, with the continuous progress of social life, people's material and cultural life has become increasingly rich and their lifestyles are diverse, which has also caused some changes in people with kidney deficiency. Let's talk about the types of people who are most prone to kidney deficiency. People who often stay up late There are many people who stay up late now, especially young people. There are too many reasons to support them to stay up late, such as the heavy workload and the need to work overtime to complete the work; For the need of communication, it is difficult to have time to go to work during the day, and the long night provides a rare opportunity; Obsessed with football, the game is mostly played at night; I prefer surfing the Internet, watching movies and playing games ... I sing and sleep every night. After a long time, there will be dark circles, mental fatigue and other health problems. Once the yin essence is exhausted, I will overwork my kidneys and cause many chain reactions. People who have long-term mental stress and great pressure in life have great pressure in work and life. Long-term mental stress is likely to significantly reduce their physical resistance, making them vulnerable to the "six evils" of the external environment such as wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire, and hurting their kidneys and bodies. At the same time, "labor consumes gas", overwork consumes too much essence, which will naturally hurt the kidney and lead to kidney deficiency. It is common sense that people who smoke and drink regularly smoke and hurt their lungs. "Lung governs qi, and kidney is the root of qi". The lung governs inhalation, and the kidney governs inhalation. In terms of breathing, lung and kidney promote each other and coordinate with each other. At the same time, the yin fluid between lung and kidney also breeds with each other, and lung yin deficiency can hurt kidney yin, leading to kidney deficiency. Therefore, smoking is very harmful to the kidneys. In addition, drinking alcohol hurts the liver, and the liver and kidney are homologous. Liver stores blood, kidney stores essence, and the filling of kidney essence depends on the nourishment of liver blood. If the liver is damaged, it will naturally spread to the kidneys. Therefore, regular drinking is not conducive to tonifying the kidney. Sedentary people sit still for a long time, and the abdominal pressure of human body is high, and the blood circulation of abdominal cavity and lower body is blocked, which will affect the whole body's blood circulation. In addition, the kidney meridian and the bladder meridian are opposite. Sitting for a long time will oppress the bladder meridian, which will make the bladder meridian run poorly and the bladder function abnormal, thus causing abnormal renal function. The so-called "sedentary kidney injury" is the truth. In addition, sedentary can also cause a series of health problems such as scapulohumeral periarthritis, cervical spondylosis, varicose veins, lumbar disc herniation, spondylitis, prostatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease and so on. Most sub-health problems that plague young people are related to sedentary behavior, so we should try to avoid sedentary behavior. People who have frequent sexual life are listed as an important cause of kidney deficiency by Chinese medicine, and it is pointed out that uncontrolled sexual intercourse is easy to damage the kidney and dissipate kidney qi. Too much housework often leads to wet dream's nocturnal emission, impotence and premature ejaculation in men, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia in women, abortion and pregnancy difficulties. So, what kind of sex life is not frequent? This varies from person to person, and is related to age, personality, physique, occupation, etc. Generally speaking, it is appropriate for young couples to have a good mood and adequate rest time during their honeymoon. Healthy young couples, three times a week is appropriate; It is advisable for mature couples to go once or twice a week; For middle-aged couples in their forties and fifties, one week 1 time is more appropriate. Of course, the reasonable scale is based on the principle that after making love is not tired, cheerful and energetic the next day. In addition, people who marry early when they are immature, people who masturbate often, and people who have no sexual life but have excessive lust are prone to kidney deficiency. People with congenital deficiency Chinese medicine believes that congenital endowment is closely related to individual growth and development. If the innate endowment is sufficient, the acquired health is full of energy, strong disease resistance and vigorous vitality; Congenital endowment is insufficient, spleen and kidney are weak, disease resistance is low, vitality is reduced, and diseases are prone to occur. Common diseases, such as five delays and five softness, are mostly related to children's congenital endowment deficiency. Congenital deficiency is an important cause of kidney deficiency, especially pediatric diseases. Neijing said: "People are born with rigidity, softness, weakness and strength." Parents are weak and sick, and they are pregnant because of insufficient blood; Or get pregnant after drinking; Or when the vitality is greatly reduced over 50 years old; Or both men and women are not old enough to get married, and their bodies are not fully developed, that is, they have been pregnant since they got married; Or if you have too many children and get pregnant when the blood is consumed excessively; Or the children born during pregnancy have poor aftercare and insufficient fetal qi, which may be insufficient kidney essence. In short: insufficient kidney essence of parents will lead to kidney deficiency in children. The aging of the elderly is an inevitable physiological process, and the essence in the kidney is the main condition that determines people's life activities such as life, growth, strength, old age and death, and dominates people's life span and quality of life. There is a close relationship between human growth and kidney qi. With the increase of age, when women are 35 years old (May 7) and men are 40 years old (May 8), there will be a physiological process of kidney qi decline. In old age, the deficiency of kidney qi will show signs of aging. The so-called "old age is full of kidney deficiency" is the truth. Aging cannot be changed. When people are old, the fundamental principle of health preservation is to replenish the true qi and maintain the kidney qi. In Huangdi Neijing, some health care measures are put forward, such as "light on yin and yang, harmony with skills, moderate diet and moderate daily life" and "light on deficiency" and "keeping the soul inside", all of which are aimed at enriching the true qi and maintaining the kidney qi, thus improving the self-regulation function and disease resistance of the body, maintaining the dynamic balance of yin and yang, and achieving the purpose of prolonging life. Chronic diseases and other diseases can also cause kidney deficiency. The occurrence and development of diseases is a process of struggle between good and evil. If the disease persists for a long time, the healthy qi will become weaker and weaker, and after a long time, there will be kidney deficiency syndrome, which is the so-called "chronic kidney". As we know, the zang-fu organs of the human body are not only interdependent and restrictive in physiology, but also often influence each other in pathology. When a certain zang-fu organ is diseased, it will not only show the symptoms of the five zang-fu organs, but also affect other zang-fu organs and produce symptoms under certain conditions. Kidney is the congenital foundation, and Yuan Yin and Yuanyang are closed places. The yin of the five internal organs is supplied by the kidney yin, and the yang of the five internal organs is warmed by the kidney yang. The essence in the kidney comes not only from the innate essence, but also from the essence produced by other organs in the whole body. If all kinds of diseases persist for a long time and are not nursed back to health, it will inevitably damage the essence in the kidney, just as Jing Yue Quan Shu said: "If the five internal organs are injured, the poor will reach the kidney." People who have been ill for a long time are often weak in kidney qi, so many diseases are often treated by tonifying kidney in the end. For example, in the treatment of asthma in the later stage, we often treat the lung and relieve asthma, but tonify the kidney and solidify the essence. That's the reason.