Feeling hot in the middle of the night

Feeling hot in the middle of the night is the most obvious symptom of kidney yin deficiency. The impact of kidney yin deficiency on human health is extremely great. If the problem of kidney yin deficiency exists for a long time without timely treatment, it will cause greater harm to the patient's health. There are many ways to regulate kidney yin deficiency, the more commonly used ones are diet therapy, daily life care and kidney-strengthening exercises.

1. Diet therapy

1. Mulberry syrup

Add 60 grams of fresh mulberries to two bowls of water and boil until one bowl of water remains. Season with appropriate amount of white sugar or rock sugar, remove the residue and drink the water. Nourishes yin and tonifies kidney.

2. Stewed Polygonatum with Rock Sugar

Add 30 to 60 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum and 30 to 50 grams of rock sugar into a bowl of water, stew for 2 hours, drink the water, 1 to 2 times a day. Replenish essence and blood.

3. Lotus seed powder porridge

Remove the skin and core of 50 grams of lotus seeds, grind them into powder and mix them with water to make a paste. Put it into boiling water, add 30 grams of longan meat, cook it into porridge, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, and take a small bowl every night before going to bed. Calming the mind and consolidating semen.

4. Wolfberry wine

Soak 60 grams of wolfberry in 500 grams of white wine, seal it for more than a week, and then you can take it, 1 small cup (about 20 ml) each time, before going to bed every night. Nourish the kidney and improve essence.

5. Chinese Yam and Wolfberry Soup

Fresh yam, dried lotus seeds, wolfberry, white fungus, and a small amount of rock sugar. Peel the fresh yam, cut into sections, put it together with other ingredients into an oil-free clay pot, soak it in water, and simmer it over low heat for 2 hours. Remove from the pot when the soup becomes thick. This dessert uses yam and lotus seeds to nourish qi and strengthen the spleen, and wolfberry and white fungus to nourish yin and strengthen the kidney. It is particularly suitable for symptoms of yin and yang deficiency.

6. Appropriate food ingredients

People with kidney yin deficiency should eat more black foods, such as black sesame, black beans, black rice, black fungus, kelp, seaweed, black-bone chicken, etc. Black rice and black-bone chicken are warm in nature, and can nourish the blood and kidneys; black sesame is neutral in nature, and can nourish the kidneys and liver, moisten the intestines, and nourish the hair; black beans are neutral in nature, and can nourish the kidneys, promote blood circulation, and detoxify. Black fungus, kelp and laver are cold in nature, and are especially suitable for people with kidney yin deficiency and internal heat. Pay attention to the adjustment of yin and yang, cold, hot, warm and cool in diet, and the combination of meat and vegetables. People with yin deficiency usually eat more cool foods and less spicy, fried, and stir-fried foods.

2. Daily life care

1. Sex life should be moderate, neither forced nor indulgent.

2. Keep a happy mood. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine repeatedly discusses the damage caused by bad mental and psychological states to human organs, believing that "anger hurts the liver", "joy hurts the heart", "thinking hurts the spleen", "worry and sadness hurt the lungs", and "fear hurts the kidneys". Advocate keeping a clear mind, few desires, and rest and well-being. Give up alcohol and sex, regulate your daily life, don't get angry, and stop having delusions.

3. Keeping a regular schedule and ensuring adequate sleep are also important ways to nourish the kidneys.

3. Strengthen the kidneys

Regular waist exercises can strengthen the life gate, replenish the kidneys and absorb qi. You can also do more massages to stimulate the soles of the feet. The Yongquan point on the soles of the feet is where turbid air descends. Regularly massaging the Yongquan point can replenish the essence and kidneys, strengthen the body, prevent premature aging, and can also soothe the liver and improve eyesight, clear the throat and calm the mind, promote sleep, and increase appetite. Patients with kidney deficiency can adopt exercises such as walking, jogging, yoga, playing tennis, and Tai Chi, and they should persist in doing so.