Where to treat spleen and kidney yang deficiency with moxibustion

The spleen and kidneys are important organs of the human body. They play a very important role in people's daily life. The spleen and stomach can digest the food ingested by the human body and convert it into the nutrients needed by people. People with bad spleen will affect the digestive system. The kidneys can absorb water from the human body and excrete useless waste from the body through urine. People with spleen and kidney yang deficiency are generally not in good health. This situation can be relieved by moxibustion. Today, the editor will show you where moxibustion should be applied for spleen and kidney yang deficiency?

1. Which acupoints should be moxibustioned for spleen and kidney yang deficiency?

1. Zusanli

Location: On the anterior and lateral side of the lower leg, 3 inches below the calf nose and one horizontal finger (middle finger) away from the anterior edge of the tibia.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and stomach, replenishes qi and blood.

Main indications: digestive tract diseases, cardiovascular diseases, decreased immune function, fatigue, and premature aging. Experts emphasize that "If you want peace, don't dry Sanli", meaning that repeatedly moxibustioning Zusanli can play a health-care role.



2. Sanyinjiao

Location: On the inner side of the calf, 3 inches above the tip of the inner ankle, behind the inner edge of the tibia.

Efficacy: warms the kidney and strengthens the spleen, removes dampness and promotes diuresis, regulates menstruation and relieves pain.

Indications: intestinal rumbling, abdominal distension, diarrhea, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea, spermatorrhea, impotence, enuresis, hernia, insomnia, and paralysis of the lower limbs.

3. Shenque

Location: In the middle of the abdomen, in the center of the navel.

2. Causes of Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency

1. Long-term spleen and kidney disease consumes Qi and damages Yang

The kidneys are responsible for the metabolism of water and fluids, and must work in conjunction with the spleen's function of transporting and transforming water and moisture in order to maintain the balance of water metabolism in the body. Therefore, the spleen and kidneys are interdependent to ensure the normal function of transporting and transforming the essence of water and grain and metabolizing water. If the spleen and kidney are diseased for a long time, Qi is consumed and Yang is damaged, resulting in kidney Yang deficiency and inability to warm and nourish spleen Yang, or spleen Yang deficiency for a long time and inability to nourish kidney Yang, it will eventually lead to deficiency of both spleen and kidney Yang.

2. Ageing and chronic illness can harm your health

The causes of spleen and kidney yang deficiency syndrome are relatively complex. Old age, physical weakness, fatigue, internal injuries, and long-term illness can all cause this syndrome. Depending on the development of the disease, it can be divided into spleen and kidney and kidney and spleen.

3. Long-term diarrhea and dysentery damage kidney yang and both spleen and kidney

Those affected by the spleen and kidneys are mostly due to weak spleen and stomach, or damage caused by diet, or damage to the spleen due to worry, or spleen blocked by cold and dampness, or due to prolonged diarrhea, dysentery, edema and other diseases that do not heal over time, resulting in spleen yang deficiency.

3. Symptoms of Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency

Yang deficiency and excessive coldness cause Qi stagnation, which manifests as pale complexion, fear of cold, cold limbs, soreness of waist and knees, and cold pain in the abdomen.

The failure of food and water to flow properly results in abdominal distension, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, or even diarrhea at early morning and clear stool.

Water and dampness are overflowing, and symptoms include difficulty in urination, swelling of the face and limbs, and even abdominal distension like a drum; or frequent urination with residual urine, or frequent urination at night. The tongue is pale, fat and has teeth marks, the tongue coating is white and slippery, and the pulse is deep, slow, thin and weak, which are also signs of Yang deficiency.

Dietary Recipes for Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency

Mutton Soup: 80 grams of cooked lean mutton, chop it into a paste with the back of a knife, put it in a bowl, pour in 60 ml of mutton soup, add a little fresh ginger juice, mashed garlic, cooking wine, MSG, salt, and starch, mix well, steam it in a steamer for 45 minutes, and serve hot.

Diced chicken with hot peppers: 100 grams of hot peppers, break into thumb-nail-sized pieces; 60 grams of chicken breast, cut into dices, simmer with cooking wine, salt, fresh ginger juice, and minced garlic, put into a pan and cook until 90% cooked, then remove from the pan and stir-fry the hot peppers over high heat until 70% cooked, add the diced chicken, stir-fry until cooked, place on a plate, add appropriate amount of salt and MSG to the chicken broth, pour the broth over the diced chicken and hot peppers and serve hot.

Walnut kernel porridge (suitable for yang deficiency constipation): 30 grams of walnut kernels, grind into a paste, add 50 ml of hot water, mix well and filter the juice; cook porridge with 50 grams of indica rice, add walnut juice after the rice is cooked and continue cooking, and eat hot when there is no walnut oil smell.



Glutinous rice porridge (suitable for yang deficiency diarrhea): 50 grams of glutinous rice, 250 milliliters of dog meat soup, simmer until it becomes a thin paste, add appropriate amount of pepper and MSG, and eat hot.

Dietary taboos for spleen and kidney yang deficiency

Foods suitable for people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency

Foods that are warm in nature and have the effect of nourishing the kidney yang and warming the spleen yang, such as indica rice, dog meat, mutton, chicken, pork tripe, leeks, chili peppers, sword beans, cinnamon, etc.

People with yang deficiency and constipation should eat foods that are both warming and laxative, such as walnut kernels, leek, sea cucumber, shrimp, etc.

People with yang deficiency and diarrhea should eat foods that are both warming and antidiarrheal, such as glutinous rice, chain fish, river shrimp, dried ginger, pepper, etc.; foods that have astringent and antidiarrheal effects, such as pomegranate, black plum, lotus seeds, and water chestnuts.