Tonifying kidney needs to be divided into kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. Only by eating foods and drugs that nourish yin and tonify kidney, and foods and drugs that warm yang and tonify kidney, can we achieve better kidney-tonifying effect. Details are as follows.

1. Nourishing yin and tonifying kidney: The main symptoms of kidney yin deficiency are five vexations and fever, hot flashes and night sweats, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess. Such patients should eat food and drugs that tonify kidney yin.

(1) Foods for nourishing yin and tonifying kidney: including pork, duck, rabbit and dried fruits, such as walnuts, black sesame seeds, lilies and longan.

(2) Traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing yin and tonifying kidney: Liuwei Dihuang Pill, Baizhi Dihuang Pill and Dabuyin Pill can be used.

2. Warming yang and tonifying kidney: Patients with kidney-yang deficiency often have symptoms such as listlessness, fatigue, chills in limbs, sexual dysfunction, impotence, premature ejaculation and increased nocturia. Such patients should take some food or medicine for tonifying kidney and strengthening yang.

(1) Food for warming yang and tonifying kidney: beef, mutton and shrimp; Walnut, chestnut, peanut, leek, fennel, yam, etc.

(2) Traditional Chinese medicines for warming yang and tonifying kidney, such as Jinkui Shenqi Pill and Gui You Pill, can improve and treat patients with kidney-yang deficiency.

If kidney deficiency is suspected, it is recommended to seek medical advice in time and check and treat according to the doctor's advice.