(1) physical properties.
White and fat body or pale face, usually afraid of cold and warm, listless limbs, long urine, loose stool, weak lips, frequent spontaneous sweating, heavy pulse and pale tongue. People are prone to catch cold when they are sick. It can be seen that they are afraid of cold, have cold limbs, or have a stomachache, and like to keep warm and press. Or edema of the body and face, not suitable for urination; Or cold pain in the back, clearing the valley; Or impotence, nocturnal emission and infertility caused by palace cold; Or chest pain, cough and palpitation; Or frequent urination at night, incontinence.
(2) the principle of health preservation.
Eliminating yang to treat cold and warming spleen and kidney, because the key to yang deficiency is to replenish yang. Among the five internal organs, the kidney is the root of yang and the spleen is the biochemical source of yang, so it should be supplemented with emphasis.
(3) Health care methods.
Mental conditioning: In Huangdi Neijing, it is said that people with poor liver function are prone to fear, and it is also pointed out that people with low heart function are prone to sadness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yang deficiency is the further development of qi deficiency, so people with insufficient yang spirit often show bad mood and are easy to be sad. Therefore, we should strengthen mental conditioning, be good at adjusting our emotions, eliminate sadness, prevent panic, maintain a happy mood and eliminate the influence of bad emotions.
Environmental adjustment: this constitution has cold limbs, likes warmth and fears cold, and is resistant to spring and summer but not to autumn and winter. Therefore, people with yang deficiency should pay special attention to environmental regulation and improve human resistance. It has been pointed out that if you sunbathe 20 ~ 30 times in summer, the ultraviolet rays obtained for each time 15 ~ 20 minutes can last for one year. For the elderly and infirm, don't sleep outdoors in summer, don't let the electric fan blow directly, and don't stay in the shade for too long.
Strengthen physical exercise: Because "movement leads to yang", it is carried out 1 ~ 2 times a day in spring, summer, autumn and winter, depending on physical strength.
Diet care: eat more foods with aphrodisiac function, such as mutton, dog meat, venison, chicken and so on. According to the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer", eating mutton soup every volt in summer is to strengthen the yang of the human body when the world is prosperous.
Drug treatment: Guizhi plus Fuzi decoction should be used for those with yang deficiency; Those who are partial to spleen-yang deficiency choose Lizhong decoction; People with kidney-yang deficiency should take Golden Whip Shenqi Pill.