What are the symptoms of kidney deficiency and what can you eat to avoid kidney deficiency?

In our daily life, we often hear the word "kidney deficiency", but we know very little about it. In fact, kidney deficiency is divided into many types, such as kidney yang deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, etc. Both men and women have kidney deficiency problems. Kidney deficiency requires kidney tonification. However, kidney tonification is not achieved by taking certain health products, but rather by promoting food supplements. So, how to replenish kidney deficiency? Whether it is food supplements or medicine supplements, we need to analyze the specific situation. Let’s take a look at the common methods of replenishing the kidneys.

How to replenish kidney deficiency?

Kidney deficiency requires kidney supplementation, and kidney supplementation generally starts with food. If the kidney deficiency is not particularly serious, it is not advisable to take medicine for a long time. Of course, dietary supplements must also be symptomatic. What kind of kidney deficiency do you have? To what extent is the kidney deficiency? These all need to be diagnosed through symptoms and examinations. So, how to replenish kidney deficiency? Let’s take a look at the specific ways to replenish the kidney.

1. Treat the symptoms

Kidney deficiency can be roughly divided into two types: Yin deficiency and Yang deficiency. If there are signs of cold among the symptoms of kidney deficiency, such as fear of cold and cold hands and feet, it is yang deficiency; if there are also signs of heat such as dry mouth, hot hands and feet, it may be yin deficiency. Kidney yin deficiency can be treated with Chinese medicines such as Scrophularia, Ligustrum lucidum, Eclipta prostrata, mulberry, and Dendrobium, or Liuwei Dihuang Pills.

For the treatment of kidney yang deficiency, you can choose Chinese herbal medicines such as cinnamon, deer antler, epimedium, curculigo, Morinda officinalis, Eucommia ulmoides, Dipsacus asper, Cistanche deserticola, Cynomorium songaricum, Psoralea corylifolia, walnut kernel, etc. You can also choose Guilingji.

2. Eat more black foods

The "Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" believes that "the color of the kidney is black" because the five elements attribute of black is water, and the kidney among the five internal organs also belongs to water. All black foods have the function of nourishing the kidney, such as black beans, black rice, black sesame, black fungus, etc. Secondly, "Huangdi Neijing" believes that "kidney vegetables are huo", huo refers to the leaves of legumes, such as bean sprouts, pea sprouts, etc.; if you must eat meat, lean pork is relatively the most nourishing to the kidneys, because "Huangdi Neijing" believes that "kidney livestock are pigs", pigs are pigs. In addition, wolfberry, yam, and walnut are all well-known kidney-tonifying remedies and can be taken for a long time.

3. Adjust your work and rest schedule

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that "when Yang comes out of Yin, one wakes up; when Yang goes into Yin, one sleeps." During the day, the Yang energy of nature and human beings moves upward and outward, and vice versa at night. If you do not sleep but move around at night, the human body must overcome the dual resistance of nature and the body's yang energy moving inward and downward, in order to move the body's yang energy upward and outward. This process is an energy-consuming process that consumes the body's essence, that is, the body's kidney essence, which will inevitably lead to accelerated aging. Adjusting your work and rest schedule is the most direct and simple way to nourish the kidneys.

4. Focus your mind on Dantian

Sitting for a long time will damage your kidneys. It is recommended to exercise for an hour every day to get your body moving. You can also try the breathing method of "focusing the mind on Dantian and letting the Qi sink into Dantian". First calm down and focus your mind on Dantian, which is the area below the navel where kidney energy is located. When you take a deep breath, you can naturally feel the breath rising from the sacrum along the posterior midline of the human body to the top of the head. When you exhale, the breath sinks from the top to the dantian. One breathing process is a circulation process of the breath along the front and back midline of the human body, and make the breath as deep, long, fine and even as possible. In addition, in traditional Chinese medicine, there is a one-to-one correspondence between emotions and internal organs. “Fear hurts the kidneys,” so excessive fear should be avoided.

What are the symptoms of kidney deficiency?

1. Look at your complexion

We can look in the mirror and see how we look. People with kidney deficiency usually have a poor complexion, and their face is obviously lacking in luster and moisture. Some stars look glamorous on stage, but that's all the effect of makeup. When you look at them after they take off their makeup, you will find that many of them have a pale face, rough skin and large pores, which is really disappointing. Why is this?

Celebrities are usually under great mental stress, which can easily lead to kidney deficiency. This requires long-term conditioning to enable the body's internal hormones to reach normal levels and make the complexion rosy and shiny.

2. Degree of forgetfulness

If your boss asks you how the task you were asked to do is going, and you say "I forgot", it's okay once or twice, but if it happens many times, it's not only embarrassing, but you should also think about whether you have kidney deficiency.

The degree of forgetfulness is an important criterion for kidney deficiency. So don’t tell others easily, “I forgot to bring something”, as this is equivalent to telling others, “I may have kidney deficiency”. Moreover, the phenomenon of forgetfulness caused by kidney deficiency is showing a trend of occurring at younger ages. Nowadays, many primary school students tell their teachers "I forgot to do my homework" every now and then. So, don’t think that forgetfulness is just an old age disease, it should attract the attention of people of all ages.

3. Check the urination function

There are two evaluation criteria: one is the frequency of urination. For example, some people are afraid to drink water during class because they have to go to the toilet after a while. Some people suffer from nocturia at a young age. The second is control of urination. When you feel the urge to defecate, you must go to the toilet immediately. If you are a step late, something bad will happen.

Some people are afraid to laugh out loud or sneeze hard, otherwise something bad will happen. Both of these situations involve problems with urination function and are also manifestations of kidney deficiency.

It can be seen that the situation of kidney deficiency is more complicated. How to replenish kidney deficiency? It cannot be generalized. Don’t think that you can replenish what you eat. Many people eat animal livers, but eating too much cannot replenish the kidneys, but will affect your health. Therefore, to nourish the kidneys, you must first go to a regular hospital for a check-up, then get the doctor's advice, and then nourish the kidneys according to the advice.