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Why does TCM health care focus on spleen and kidney? Do you need to replenish spleen and kidney according to the following self-test?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that congenital origin lies in the kidney and acquired origin lies in the spleen. Physiologically, the relationship between spleen and kidney is extremely close, and a healthy temper must rely on the warmth of kidney yang; The filling of kidney essence depends on the subtle nourishment of Shui Gu produced by the spleen.

In order to maintain the coordination and unity of human physiological functions, it is very important to maintain the spleen and kidney.

There are four major manifestations in judging whether you have spleen deficiency:

(1) The body is puffy and the muscles are soft.

② Loose skin and prominent bags under the eyes.

(3) lazy and weak, listless.

4 loss of appetite, irregular menstruation and abnormal stool.

General prescription for strengthening spleen:

1. Tea substitute: Huangqi jujube tea, Lingti Mingshui, dried jujube ginger tea and oolong tea.

2, porridge: miscellaneous grains porridge, glutinous rice porridge, mung bean porridge, yam jujube porridge, millet porridge.

3. Fruits and vegetables: mushrooms, carrots and peanuts.

There are four major manifestations in judging whether you have kidney deficiency:

① Look at sexual function: sexual dysfunction, lack of interest in sex and low quality. Men with yin deficiency have more premature ejaculation and nocturnal emission; People with yang deficiency have more impotence.

2 Look at hot and cold: afraid of cold and cold, cold hands and feet are yang deficiency; Five upset and hot, insomnia and dreaminess, yin deficiency and night sweats.

3 Look at the second stool: people with yellow urine and constipation mostly belong to yin deficiency; People with long urine and loose stools mostly belong to yang deficiency.

④ Look at 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.

In fact, the safest way to tonify the kidney is of course to tonify the kidney through food supplement.

Chinese medicine says that "five-color food supplements the five internal organs, red enters the heart, green enters the liver, yellow enters the spleen, white enters the lung and black enters the kidney". It can be seen that if you want to tonify the kidney, you have to eat more black food, such as black rice, black beans, black sesame seeds, chestnuts, walnuts and so on. If you can cook porridge with these five foods, the effect of tonifying kidney will be better!

Some seafood foods are also good choices, such as oysters, lobsters, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, shrimp eggs, fish eggs, shellfish and seaweed.