Tonifying the kidney is not "a hundred benefits without one harm". Traditional Chinese medicine culture is deeply rooted in people's hearts. People often think that health care must rely on Chinese medicine, and taking tonic is the best way to maintain health, and the best tonic is tonifying kidney, because kidney is fundamental. Therefore, some people think that young and middle-aged people need to tonify the kidney because of heavy career, fatigue and weakness; The elderly should tonify the kidney because of insufficient kidney qi; Even the students who go to school, led by their parents, go to the sub-health clinic and tell their children that they look pale, weak, swollen eyes and black eyes. They are worried about their children's kidney deficiency and ask doctors to prescribe tonic medicine ... It seems that men, women and children should tonify the kidney. In particular, there is a saying that "the kidney has no excess syndrome". In other words, the kidney has only deficiency syndrome, and it is good to make up for it. In short, tonifying the kidney is "beneficial and harmless, suitable for everyone." However, tonifying the kidney is really beneficial and harmless.
Chinese medicine believes that human health is the balance of yin and yang of zang-fu organs. If this balance of yin and yang is broken, it will lead to disease. In the process of health preservation, Chinese medicine is to adjust the balance of yin and yang of human body and take measures to eliminate its redundancy and make up for its deficiency. So kidney deficiency can tonify the kidney. If there is no kidney deficiency, there is no need to tonify the kidney.
Taking kidney-tonifying drugs by mistake does more harm than good.
If you are a healthy person, Yin and Yang in your body are in a state of balance. No matter what tonic you take, it will affect the yin and yang in your body and may lead to diseases and syndromes. Of course, from the current analysis of human health, only 15% people are really healthy, and 85% people belong to the sick population and sub-health population, that is, the imbalance between yin and yang in Chinese medicine. These people all have uncomfortable symptoms, and most of them have pathogens in their bodies, such as phlegm-dampness, blood stasis, qi stagnation, food retention, internal heat, internal cold and so on. In this case, tonic will undoubtedly aggravate the evil spirits in the body, make them stay in the body, and may also change, further aggravating the imbalance between yin and yang in the body. Therefore, taking kidney-tonifying drugs may do more harm than good to the body. Fatigue and age are not the criteria to define tonifying kidney. If people who don't need to tonify the kidney take tonics, it will not only have many side effects, but will aggravate the condition, which can be described as self-defeating and worse.
Kidney deficiency is the most taboo.
Mistaken use of nourishing kidney drugs can also have adverse consequences. The most taboo of kidney deficiency is tonic. For example, patients with kidney yin deficiency taking aphrodisiac will make the symptoms of kidney yin deficiency more intense. Therefore, tonifying kidney should be based on the principle of harmonizing yin and yang. Supplementing yin will aggravate the condition. If you only supplement yang or nourish yin, it will also unbalance yin and yang and damage your health. Therefore, tonifying the kidney must be aimed at people with kidney deficiency. After determining whether it is kidney deficiency, it is necessary to distinguish between yin deficiency and yang deficiency, which is very important for good health.
Tonifying kidney, nourishing kidney and protecting kidney are different.
Nourishing kidney, tonifying kidney or protecting kidney are conceptually different. Tonifying the kidney is a treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is necessary to eat Chinese medicine for tonifying the kidney; Nourishing or protecting the kidney is to maintain the kidney through daily diet, daily life and fitness. Therefore, it is necessary to take medicine to tonify the kidney. As long as it is medicine, it has medicinal properties. For example, the medicinal properties of nourishing yin and replenishing essence are mostly cold and greasy, which is easy to damage Yang Qi or suppress Yang Qi; But warming yang or strengthening yang is easy to produce internal heat or consume yin essence. Also, all tonics will help evil spirits or gather evil spirits. Therefore, it is not arbitrary to follow the doctor's advice whether to tonify the kidney. In daily life, we should also pay attention to the maintenance of kidneys to improve health.