What are the symptoms of spleen and kidney yang deficiency and how to regulate it?

The spleen and kidneys are important components of the human body and are also organs in traditional Chinese medicine. If the spleen and kidneys are not healthy, such as spleen and kidney yang deficiency, it is easy to have constipation, diarrhea, large intestine dysfunction, ulcerative colitis, etc. Therefore, spleen and kidney yang deficiency needs to be treated and adjusted, especially dietary adjustment, and also psychological adjustment. You should keep a happy mood every day. So, how should people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency eat? Let’s take a look at the detailed introduction of spleen and kidney yang deficiency.

Symptoms of spleen and kidney yang deficiency

We often hear about diseases such as spleen and kidney yang deficiency, but what exactly is spleen and kidney yang deficiency and what are its symptoms? This is what many people want to know. If you want to discover abnormal signals of your body as soon as possible, including signals of spleen and kidney yang deficiency, you must first understand the symptoms of spleen and kidney yang deficiency. The specific manifestations are as follows:

Spleen and kidney yang deficiency is a disease caused by congenital yang deficiency, or old age and physical weakness leading to insufficient yang, or long-term spleen yang deficiency affecting kidney yang, resulting in insufficient spleen and kidney yang. Spleen deficiency and insufficient Yang Qi often cause large intestine dysfunction, which manifests as diarrhea or constipation. Malabsorption syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and habitual constipation often occur or are accompanied by this disease.

People with yang deficiency and diarrhea: diarrhea often occurs before dawn, with abdominal pain and intestinal rumbling indicating diarrhea, and relief after diarrhea; people with yang deficiency and constipation have hard and astringent stools, difficulty in excreting, and cold pain in the abdomen; the common features of both are pale complexion, cold hands and feet, preference for warmth and fear of cold, clear and long urine, pale tongue, white fur, and slow pulse.

What should people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency eat?

The following foods are suitable for people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency:

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

People with spleen and kidney yang deficiency should avoid eating the following foods:

1. People with yang deficiency constipation should also avoid eating foods that are astringent and antidiarrheal and can aggravate constipation, such as lotus seeds, pomegranates, water chestnuts, black plums, glutinous rice, river shrimps, etc.

2. People with yang deficiency diarrhea should also avoid eating foods that have a moisturizing and laxative effect, such as walnut kernels, sesame seeds, white fungus, sea cucumbers, shrimps, milk, rabbit meat, longan, peaches, radishes, etc.

3. Foods that are cold in nature, easily damage the Yang Qi, or are greasy, thick and difficult to digest, such as rice, buckwheat, oats, tofu, pork, duck, pine nuts, peanuts, black fungus, bitter melon, wild rice stem, celery, winter melon, eggplant, water spinach, spinach, longan, banana, honey, etc.

In short, people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency must pay attention to their diet, know which foods to eat and which foods not to eat, and must follow the doctor's advice. In addition, they must cooperate with the doctor's treatment, not take medicine indiscriminately, and not buy health products casually. Only scientific and standardized treatment can help patients better restore the normal functions of the spleen and kidneys.