1, symptoms of kidney deficiency in women
(1) Internal symptoms
1. Insomnia and irritability
Women with kidney-yin deficiency are easily agitated, unable to concentrate, and often suffer from insomnia and dreaming. In addition, I often feel weak in my waist and knees. (kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, one cold and one hot, no matter which one, are enough to make people have a big headache. Deficiency of kidney yin causes internal disturbance of deficiency of fire, which makes people fidgety; At night, the inability of yin qi to be absorbed leads to insomnia and dreaminess. In addition, yin deficiency and essence deficiency lead to bone dystrophy, so people with kidney yin deficiency often feel weak waist and knees.
2. Back ache
Chinese medicine believes that "waist is the house of kidney", and kidney deficiency can be reflected as waist pain, which is characterized by dull pain after fatigue.
3. Irregular menstruation
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney-qi deficiency is an important factor for irregular menstruation, because it can make qi-blood harmony and pulse-flushing and pulse-letting function normal. People caused by kidney deficiency are often accompanied by dizziness, weakness of waist and legs, and small abdominal distension.
4. Afraid of cold
As recorded in "Ling Shu Bai Bing Shi Sheng Pian", deficiency of kidney yang leads to cold. Clinical studies have found that people with kidney deficiency have hyperactivity of parasympathetic nerve, which leads to slow heartbeat, decreased blood pressure and lower basal body temperature. You can eat more foods that warm and tonify kidney-yang to relieve symptoms.
5. Infertility and difficult pregnancy
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "kidney storing essence" dominates reproductive development, and the female reproductive system gradually develops and matures under the care of essence. If kidney essence is insufficient, it will affect reproductive ability. If you don't take good care of it, your plan to have children may really be a big question mark.
(2) Appearance symptoms
1. "panda eye"
Kidney governs water, and kidney deficiency leads to unfavorable metabolism of water and liquid, leading to edema, and eyelid is the most easily found part. As for dark circles and pale complexion, kidney deficiency leads to blood circulation problems.
2. chloasma
Deficiency of kidney qi can not moisten the skin, and butterfly-shaped pale yellow, yellowish brown or light black patches often appear on the zygomatic region, with clear boundaries and often accompanied by irregular menstruation.
3. puffiness
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the basic causes of obesity are phlegm, dampness and stagnation, and further, it is due to qi deficiency. Therefore, women with kidney-qi deficiency often tend to gain weight. Modern medicine explains the relationship between obesity and kidney deficiency: the endocrine function of people with kidney deficiency is weakened, the secretion of adrenocortical hormone (promoting fat decomposition and inhibiting synthesis) is reduced, and the level of basal metabolic rate is reduced, resulting in reduced calorie consumption in the body and leading to obesity.
2. What are the foods that tonify the kidney?
1, Lycium barbarum L.: It is a kind of medicine, food and nourishing article for strengthening essence, strengthening kidney, strengthening the body and nourishing the original, and resisting aging. According to modern medical research, Lycium barbarum contains a variety of essential amino acids, which can make the body strong. Oral administration can tonify essence and strengthen Yang Dao.
2, yam: it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting the lungs, strengthening the essence and strengthening the kidney. Taking or concocting yam porridge in decoction can tonify kidney, replenish essence, astringe and stop spermatorrhea. Regular consumption can prevent impotence, premature ejaculation, menorrhea and leg weakness.
3, lotus seeds: have the effect of nourishing the skin and intestines, nourishing the new and strengthening the kidney. Lotus seed contains ingredients such as lotus seed alkali and lotus seed sugar, and is also rich in calcium, phosphorus and iron. It is a healthy food with strong convergence and can cure chronic diarrhea of spleen if eaten frequently.
4, clam: it can promote the activation of gonad and thyroid function, benefit essence and kidney, make blood and strengthen liver, and has the effect of preventing aging and strengthening sexual function.
5, sparrow meat, sparrow eggs: sparrow meat and sparrow meat have the effect of aphrodisiac and essence. Can treat kidney deficiency, lumbago, impotence, premature ejaculation and other diseases.
6, venison: venison is mild, with the effect of invigorating spleen and qi, warming kidney and strengthening yang. Traditional medicine in China believes that deer belongs to pure yang, and it is the first of all meats to tonify kidney qi.
7. Black beans: Black beans are praised as the valley of kidney by the ancients. They are sweet and flat in taste. They are not only shaped like kidneys, but also have the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening body, promoting blood circulation and diuresis, detoxifying and moistening skin, especially suitable for patients with kidney deficiency.
8. Black rice: It has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and warming liver, invigorating spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Regular consumption of black rice is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of dizziness, dizziness, anemia, gray hair, eye diseases, soreness of waist and knees, cough due to lung dryness, constipation, dysuria, edema due to kidney deficiency, loss of appetite, weakness of spleen and stomach, etc.