Post Date December, 02 2023
Kidney deficiency "is one of the last words people want to hear, but it always fills people's ears. What is the current situation due to the lack of scientific understanding of kidney deficiency among people and the exaggerated promotion by some manufacturers? More than half of the people are suspected of kidney deficiency! Overall, there are four main misconceptions about kidney deficiency:
Kidney tonifying when sexual function decreases
Many people have a underlying logic: if the lower body "doesn't work", it's kidney deficiency. In fact, there are many factors that can cause sexual dysfunction, such as prostatitis. According to a survey conducted by Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine on over 1000 impotence patients, only 10.3% of them are actually caused by kidney deficiency. If indiscriminately supplemented, it is likely to delay treatment and instead worsen the problem.
If there is a slight disturbance, it is considered kidney deficiency
Many people suspect kidney deficiency when they experience symptoms such as excessive sweating, frequent urination, weak waist and knees, and decreased libido. In fact, the concept of kidney deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine is a syndrome, which includes various symptoms including the above, and not one or two manifestations represent kidney deficiency. Take sweating for example, inflammation of the urinary system, pathological changes of body organs and tissues, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to step out of this misconception to avoid delaying the treatment of other diseases.
Kidney deficiency is bound to cause problems
In the eyes of most people, this should be a natural thing. However, kidney deficiency in TCM is a functional unit, covering the secretion system, reproductive system, urinary system, sports skeleton system, respiratory system and other systems. To some extent, kidney deficiency is a normal physiological phenomenon, and everyone will go through this stage after entering middle and old age. Kidney deficiency and male diseases are two completely different probabilities, and kidney deficiency does not represent impotence, etc.
Decreased sexual function is identified as kidney deficiency and disorderly tonifying of qi
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that it varies from person to person, and kidney deficiency is divided into five types: kidney yin deficiency, kidney yang deficiency, kidney qi deficiency, kidney inability to absorb qi, and kidney essence deficiency. But there are only a few common kidney tonifying drugs on the market, which have no effect or even worsen after taking them. This indicates that kidney deficiency is not the main cause of decreased male sexual function.
