Kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the foundation of innateness and it nurtures the driving force of life. Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that yin and yang restrict each other, just like day and night in nature. The day belongs to yang and the night belongs to yin. Yin and yang restrict each other so that nature can be balanced. The kidneys also have yin and yang, which restrict each other and maintain the balance of human life.

What are the manifestations of kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency? Kidney yin deficiency manifests as a lack of material foundation, which may cause weakness in the waist and knees, hot flashes and night sweats, bone steaming hot flashes, nighttime irritability, memory loss, Tinnitus, deafness, dementia. Kidney yang deficiency means that the body's kidneys have insufficient power. After kidney yang deficiency, there will be chills, intolerance to cold, listlessness, heaviness of limbs, dementia, impotence, and premature ejaculation. These are different manifestations of kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. Kidney yang deficiency refers to the syndrome caused by the kidney's yang deficiency.

Kidney yang deficiency refers to the syndrome caused by the kidney's yang deficiency. For kidney yang deficiency, it manifests as coldness, and the whole body is afraid of cold (especially the lower limbs) Cold), soreness of waist and knees, significantly low body metabolism, mental fatigue, and general weakness. The main clinical manifestations include cold lumbar muscles, pain, chills, cold limbs, dark complexion, mental fatigue and weakness, pale tongue with white coating, and weak pulse. .

Men may experience impotence, cold semen, and spermatorrhea, while women may experience oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, and infertility. Kidney yang warms the spleen yang, so kidney yang deficiency can lead to less food, loose stools, diarrhea before dawn, long and clear urine, nocturia, enuresis, residual urine after urination, and general edema, especially obvious swelling below the waist. Abdominal distension, palpitations, shortness of breath, cough and wheezing, etc. It is easy to distinguish clinically

Kidney-yin deficiency and kidney-yang deficiency are easy to distinguish clinically, mainly in the difference between cold and heat. Patients with kidney yin deficiency will manifest themselves as a series of thermal symptoms, such as excitement, insomnia, dreaminess, night sweats, significant memory loss, bitter mouth, dry mouth, tinnitus, dizziness, etc. Men are prone to early erections.

Kidney yin deficiency is mainly caused by insufficient yin fluid. It mainly includes waist and knee pain, dizziness, tinnitus, fatigue, insomnia and forgetfulness. Men may experience spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, and women may experience oligomenorrhoea or amenorrhea. , weight loss, red cheeks, dry throat, bone steaming hot flashes, five upset fever, night sweats, red tongue with less coating, and thready and rapid pulse. Kidney yang deficiency means insufficient yang energy, and coldness is particularly obvious. Yin deficiency will cause deficiency heat, yin deficiency, excessive fire, and false thermal images. This is the main clinical difference.