Kidney should first distinguish between yin and yang, yang deficiency and cold, and yin deficiency and heat. Tonifying kidney-yang deficiency should focus on warming. Yang-tonifying drugs are mostly hot drugs, such as Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Cortex Cinnamomi, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Herba Epimedii, Herba Cistanches and Radix Morindae Officinalis. Cinnamon velvet antler can be used for soup, beef, mutton and dog meat, and winter bamboo shoots and black fungus can be used for cooking.
Most people with kidney yin deficiency are red in the face and red in the ears, and their five hearts (hands, feet and chest) are hot. They should be mainly sweet and cool and nourish yin, and avoid products that are pungent and dry and consume body fluid and bitter and cold and hurt yin. Yin-tonifying drugs are mostly sweet and cold drugs, mainly Liuwei Dihuang pills and American ginseng. People with kidney yin deficiency can usually eat more yam, medlar, antler glue, walnut kernel, sea cucumber, tremella and so on.
Yin and yang deficiency should be supplemented, such as nourishing yin and warming yang, nourishing yin and strengthening yang. Chen Liji Zhuangyao Shen Jian Pill can be used to tonify yin and yang, or Radix Pseudostellariae 15g, Atractylodis Rhizoma 15g, Rhizoma Dioscoreae 30g, Poria 20g, Radix Astragali 30g, Placenta Hominis 15g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis 15g, Cornu Cervi 10g, and Plastrum Testudinis 65438. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose, and take orally twice in the morning and evening.