Tips of Chinese medicine for keeping healthy and tonifying kidney
About tonifying kidney in traditional Chinese medicine
The main physiology of kidney includes storing sperm, leading reproduction and growth; The kidney controls water and opens and closes, which plays an important role in the transportation and excretion of body fluids; Kidney governs qi, which is of great significance to human respiratory movement. In addition, the kidney has an important influence on bones, intelligence, hair, reproduction, defecation, ears and hearing, saliva, blood and so on. Its comprehensive functions are equivalent to endocrine, urinary, reproductive, respiratory, nervous, vascular, digestive, immune and other functions in modern medicine.
Correct misunderstanding
Impotence is kidney deficiency, weakness is kidney deficiency, kidney disease is kidney deficiency, and fear of cold is kidney deficiency.
Kidney deficiency is often mentioned in our daily life. Nowadays, the word "kidney deficiency" has gone beyond the scope of medical terms, and is more used as a signboard for health advertisements. When you pick up the newspaper and turn on the TV, you can see and hear kidney deficiency. In fact, kidney deficiency is a special term in Chinese medicine. The kidney in Chinese medicine theory goes far beyond the scope of urinary system and is closely related to human growth, aging, intelligence and fertility.
What is a kidney? The foundation of nature?
What does Chinese medicine think kidney is? The foundation of nature? . Kidney and bladder are the exterior and interior of each other, kidney stores essence and controls growth and reproduction. Enlightening the ear and yin, the kidney governs the bone and produces marrow, and its brilliance is in the hair. When the zang-fu organs are full of essence, except for their own physiological activities, the rest are stored in the kidney for emergency use.
When the five internal organs need it, the kidney will re-supply the hidden essence to the five internal organs. Therefore, the rise and fall of kidney essence affects the functions of all zang-fu organs, and all zang-fu organs need the nourishment of kidney essence, which is the power source of human life activities. The function of kidney can be divided into two aspects: kidney yin and kidney yang, which are interdependent and mutually restrictive, maintaining the dynamic balance of human body.
When this balance is destroyed, there will be pathological changes of kidney yin and kidney yang. When people are congenitally deficient, physically weak, or old and weak, or lose nursed back to health after a long illness, the essence of the human body will naturally be insufficient, and many corresponding syndrome groups will appear, which is called kidney deficiency in Chinese medicine.
Kidney deficiency has various symptoms.
There are many symptoms of kidney deficiency, which can be manifested in the brain: memory loss, inattention, lack of energy and reduced work efficiency. Emotion can be manifested as: bad mood, often difficult to control emotions, dizziness, irritability, irritability, anxiety, depression and so on. Or lack of self-confidence, lack of self-confidence, no enthusiasm for work, no passion for life, no goal and direction.
In terms of sexual function, it is manifested as: decreased sexual function, decreased male libido, impotence or impotence, nocturnal emission, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, decreased sperm or sperm vitality, and infertility. Women have uterine dysplasia, premature ovarian failure, amenorrhea, irregular menstruation, decreased libido, infertility and so on.
Urinary manifestations are: frequent urination, waiting for urination, long urination time and increased nocturia. In addition, the symptoms of kidney deficiency may also include: premature aging, insomnia, loss of appetite, bone and joint pain, weakness of waist and knees, fatigue, hearing loss, hair loss or premature graying, loose teeth and so on.
Or premature aging, bags under the eyes, dark circles, dull complexion and spots, female breasts begin to sag, and fat accumulates in the waist and abdomen; Male premature baldness and so on.
Correct the misunderstanding of kidney deficiency
Speaking of kidney deficiency, we should correct some misunderstandings about kidney deficiency. Many people think impotence is kidney deficiency. In fact, there are many reasons for impotence, not synonymous with kidney deficiency. Secondly, weakness is kidney deficiency, which is the root of human life. It contains Yuan Yin and Yuanyang, which lead to bone marrow and store essence. Deficiency of kidney qi will naturally lead to physical decline and weakness of waist and knees. But there are many reasons for physical weakness, such as spleen and stomach damage, lung qi deficiency, liver blood deficiency and so on. Weakness is a kind of deficiency, but it does not mean kidney deficiency. Thirdly, it is mistaken that all kidney diseases are kidney deficiency, and kidney deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine can be caused by disease or aging, which is the concept of dysfunction of human viscera, and does not necessarily mean that the kidney in human anatomy is diseased.
Therefore, kidney deficiency does not mean that the kidney is sick. Others think that fear of cold is kidney deficiency, and kidney governs the body's Yuan Yang. Therefore, most people with insufficient kidney Yang are afraid of cold limbs, but they have exterior syndrome and interior syndrome. Internal syndrome is divided into spleen-yang deficiency and kidney-yang deficiency, which cannot be attributed to kidney deficiency.
To tonify kidney qi, Chinese medicine should first treat kidney deficiency, and it is the key to find out whether it is kidney yang deficiency or kidney yin deficiency. Generally speaking, patients with kidney-yin deficiency have soreness of waist and knees, fever of five senses, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and forgetfulness, night sweats in men, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation in women, menorrhagia, constipation, red tongue with little fur and rapid pulse; People with kidney-yang deficiency have white or dark complexion, weak waist and knees, listlessness, male impotence and premature ejaculation, female infertility due to cold uterus, enuresis and edema, diarrhea at night, pale tongue with white fur and slow pulse.
Some patients show deficiency of both yin and yang. Yang-tonifying drugs are mostly hot drugs, such as aconite, cinnamon, velvet antler, mistletoe, epimedium, cistanche deserticola, Morinda officinalis and so on. Yin-tonifying drugs are mostly sweet and cold drugs, such as Dendrobium, Polygonatum odoratum, Lycium barbarum, Ligustrum lucidum and American ginseng. The representative prescription of tonifying yin is Liuwei Dihuang Pill, and the representative prescription of tonifying yang is Jinkui Shenqi Pill and Wuzi Yanzong Pill. Because Chinese medicine is still particular? Yin and yang are mutually rooted? So, is it necessary to do it in treatment? Those who are good at nourishing yin seek yin in the yang; Those who are good at tonifying yang seek yang in yin? .
The role of TCM in preserving health and tonifying kidney
1. Sit up straight, legs are naturally separated, shoulder width apart, hands are bent, elbows are raised sideways, fingers are extended upward, and they are flush with ears. Then, raise your hands to feel the two ribs affected, and then recover. You can do it three to five times in a row or three to five times a day as appropriate. Relax your whole body before you do the action. Inhale when raising your hand, and exhale when withdrawing it. The strength should not be too great or too strong. This action can activate muscles and bones, unblock meridians, and return qi to Tian Dan, which can relieve the elderly, the weak and the short of breath.
2. Sit up straight, bend your left arm on your leg, bend your right arm with your palm up, and do parabolic movements for 3 to 5 times. When doing parabolic action, throw your hand into the air, the action can be a little faster, inhale when throwing your hand, and exhale when recovering. This operation has the same effect as the first operation.
3. Sit up and let your legs droop naturally. First, slowly turn your body left and right for 3 to 5 times. Then swing your feet forward for more than 10 times, which can be increased or decreased according to your physical strength. When doing movements, the whole body should be relaxed, and the movements should be natural and gentle. When you turn your body, your torso should be upright and you can't pitch. This action can move the waist and knees, benefit the kidney and strengthen the waist. Practice this action often, and your waist and knees can be exercised, which is good for your kidneys.
4. Sit up, loosen your belt, take off your coat, put your hands on your waist and rub them up and down until your waist feels hot. This method can warm the kidney and strengthen the waist. There are Mingmen points of Du meridian at the waist, Shenshu, Qihai Shu, Dachang Shu, and the bladder meridian of the foot sun. After rubbing, the whole body feels fever, which has the functions of warming kidney, strengthening waist, relaxing muscles and activating blood.
5. Put your feet together, raise your head with your hands crossed, then bend down, touch the ground with your hands, then squat down, tuck your knees in your hands and meditate? Blow? But there was no sound. This can be done for more than 10 times.
6. The method of enhancing erectile ability: Zama Bu is left and right, shoulder width apart, and knees are greatly bent. At this time, the position of the knee is very important, and you can't squat and stretch hard inside. Why? Because only in this way can we feel the stimulation of pubic bone, and we must stand on our knees, which has a greater impact on pubic bone. Then, the position of the hand and the thumb of both hands are placed at the position of the waist bone. The other four fingers press the back like a door bolt, and the body leans back at the same time. The first action of the four fingers is to press the inside. As long as you think it is a massage on your ass, it is easy to understand.
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