Why do women suffer from kidney deficiency?

Traditional Chinese medicine calls it insufficient kidney qi. Kidney qi is the essence of kidney. Human activities cannot be separated from kidney qi. If the human body lacks kidney qi, the body will age early. Insufficient kidney qi will endanger human health. If the human body lacks kidney qi, it is necessary to replenish kidney qi in time. You can supplement it with medicine or take in nutrients from food to replenish kidney qi. It is a common phenomenon for women to have insufficient kidney qi. Why do women have insufficient kidney qi? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What is Kidney Qi Deficiency?

Kidney Qi deficiency refers to a condition in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Kidney Qi refers to the Qi transformed from kidney essence. It reflects the functional activities of the kidneys and is particularly important to the life activities of the human body. If the kidney qi is insufficient, it will not only lead to premature aging and shorten lifespan, but will also cause various diseases, which is extremely detrimental to health.

2. Why do women suffer from insufficient kidney energy?

Kidney deficiency and insufficient kidney qi seem to be exclusive to men, but in fact women can also suffer from kidney qi deficiency.

Kidney is the foundation of one's constitution. Regardless of gender, insufficient kidney qi can also affect women's health. Any congenital deficiency, acquired malnutrition, overwork, or long-term illness that damages the kidney may cause insufficient kidney qi, manifestations of kidney deficiency, and lead to a decline in the functions of internal organs.

Hair is the residue of blood, and the essence of kidney is in the hair. If a woman's kidney qi and essence are insufficient, qi and blood cannot nourish the hair, then the hair will become dry, fall out, and gray prematurely.

The waist is the home of the kidneys. Weak waist and knees, and weak legs and feet are mostly caused by liver and kidney deficiency. When the kidney essence and kidney qi are insufficient, the waist cannot be nourished by the kidney essence, and low back pain will occur.

Other symptoms, such as dizziness, tinnitus, memory loss, and decreased libido, are mostly caused by the inability of kidney essence to nourish the five orifices and brain marrow.

Therefore, women should also pay attention if there are signs of insufficient kidney qi and essence. They can take appropriate amounts of black beans, black rice, mulberry seeds, black sesame seeds, Polygonum multiflorum, wolfberry, Polygonatum sibiricum and other food and medicinal materials to nourish the kidneys and play a role in health care.

3. What foods should you eat if you have insufficient kidney qi?

1. Celery Custard

Ingredients: 300 grams of celery, 1 egg yolk, a little flour and 1 cup of thick broth.

Method: Wash 300 grams of celery, cut into sections, put into a pot and boil with water for a while, add a little flour and 1 cup of thick broth, then add 1 egg yolk, it is best to drink it hot.

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidneys, strengthens the waist and replenishes qi.

2. Chinese Yam Porridge

Ingredients: Take 20 grams of raw rehmannia, 50 grams each of yam and wolfberry, and 100 grams of rice.

Preparation method: Chop the raw Rehmannia root, mash the yam, put them together with wolfberry and rice in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook porridge, and eat it instead of breakfast. Once a day.

Efficacy: This method is suitable for low back pain caused by kidney deficiency with a focus on kidney yin deficiency.

3. First-class yam

Ingredients: 500 grams of raw yam, 150 grams of flour, appropriate amounts of walnut kernels, assorted preserved fruits, and honey, 100 grams of white sugar, and a little lard and cornstarch.

Method: Wash the raw yam, steam it, peel it, put it in an enamel basin, add flour, knead it into dough, then make it into a cake, put walnut kernels and assorted preserved fruits on it, and steam it for 20 minutes. After taking it out of the pan, pour a layer of honey on the round cake (1 tablespoon of honey, 100 grams of white sugar, a little lard and starch, heat it and it’s ready).

Efficacy: Nourishes kidney yin. It is suitable for symptoms such as thirst, frequent urination, and spermatorrhea caused by kidney yin deficiency.

4. Shenyuan Soup

Ingredients: 6 grams of ginseng, 10 pieces of longan pulp.

Preparation: Cook together and take orally. It has the effect of nourishing blood and calming the mind for patients with chronic renal insufficiency who suffer from anemia, palpitations and restlessness.

Efficacy: Ginseng replenishes qi and strengthens the spleen, while longan meat nourishes blood and calms the mind.