Post Date November, 16 2024
In the impression of many people, tonifying the kidney is the most effective way to maintain health. Especially for men, as long as the kidney is replenished, many problems will be solved, whether it is low back pain and fatigue, or sexual dysfunction. is that true?
Pay attention to the misunderstanding about tonifying the kidney in the advertisement
"Waist and leg pain, mental pain, as if the body was hollowed out," an advertisement for kidney tonic products many years ago was defined as kidney deficiency and kidney overdraft. In fact, kidney deficiency is an absolute concept in traditional Chinese medicine. It can be related to sexual function and can also find theoretical basis. However, if the function of tonifying kidney is exaggerated excessively, it is easy to lead to misunderstanding of tonifying kidney.
The waist is weak and the kidney is deficient. In various advertisements for tonifying the kidney, low back pain, fatigue and sexual dysfunction are the most common symptoms of kidney deficiency. Objectively, kidney deficiency may cause the above symptoms, but the symptoms of low back pain and fatigue are not necessarily caused by kidney deficiency. For example, people with damp and hot constitution will feel tired all over the body, and their sexual function will be affected by the obstruction of damp and turbidity. If such patients blindly tonify the kidney, it is like adding oil to the fire. It will only make up for the worse and aggravate the symptoms.
Tonify the kidney and yang. Kidney qi is related to sexual function, but the reasons for the decline of sexual function are not only kidney deficiency, blood stasis, liver depression, and spleen deficiency. Some chronic diseases, such as diabetes, are also prone to sexual dysfunction. An investigation found that about 1 million of 2 million diabetes patients have erectile dysfunction (ED), but the ED of diabetes nephropathy patients is mainly related to vascular diseases.
Tonifying the kidney is not only effective for men
One of the main problems in promoting the concept of tonifying the kidney in the market is that it overemphasizes men and ignores women. Although there are slight differences between men and women in kidney tonifying, the importance of kidney protection is the same for men and women.
Women's menstrual period, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and diseases are closely related to kidney qi. In the whole physiological process of women, the rise and fall of kidney qi will change with the change of time, place and living conditions. In order to maintain normal menstrual physiology and reproductive function, it is necessary to understand and master the fluctuation law of female kidney qi in all diseases related to female physiology, pay attention to protecting and nourishing kidney qi at any time, and maintain the balance of qi, blood, yin and yang.
Without syndrome differentiation, it will get worse and worse
Kidney deficiency can be divided into kidney-yang deficiency syndrome, kidney-yin deficiency syndrome, kidney-qi deficiency syndrome and kidney-essence deficiency syndrome, each with its corresponding adjustment methods. For example, Liuwei Dihuang Pill is a classic prescription for treating kidney-yin deficiency, and Jinkui Shenqi Pill is a classic prescription for treating kidney-yang deficiency. If patients with kidney-yin deficiency take Jinkui Shenqi pill, it will have a negative effect, and vice versa.
The symptoms of different kidney deficiency are completely different. The palm is hot, the body is thin, the tongue skin is small and red, the tongue body is thin and long, always afraid of heat, and most of them are kidney-yin deficiency; The waist and knees are weak, tired and weak, and the tongue is thick, which may be kidney Q. I am empty; If kidney-qi deficiency shows up and feels afraid of cold at the same time, it may develop into kidney-yang deficiency. However, kidney deficiency belongs to this type of kidney deficiency, which should be diagnosed by professional TCM doctors rather than arbitrary.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the holistic view that the five internal organs complement each other, so even if there is kidney deficiency, the five internal organs should be adjusted together, not only to replenish the kidney. The liver belongs to B-type wood, and the kidney belongs to dehydrated water. Therefore, the "ethylamine homology" theory actually refers to the same origin of the liver and kidney, and the kidney should nourish the liver to achieve better results. In addition, invigorating the spleen can also play a synergistic role in tonifying the kidney to a certain extent. If only according to the advertisement, kidney deficiency will not have a good effect.
The best nutrition is omnivore
For people with general kidney deficiency such as fatigue and low back pain, it is best to choose the same kind of food to tonify the kidney, such as lotus seeds, longan, longan, walnut, walnut and other nuts. Black enters the kidney. Most black foods have the function of tonifying the kidney, such as black beans, black sesame, black rice, etc. But not all black foods can nourish the kidney. The effect of black fungus is not obvious. The best way to choose dietary supplements is not to focus on one kind of food, but to eat omnivores. You should not only enjoy good food, but also balance nutrition.
