What does nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney mean?

Nourishing Yin is actually a way of saying it, which means it has the purpose of health care and health preservation for women. In traditional Chinese medicine, nourishing yin means nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney for women. If a woman has kidney yin deficiency or kidney yin deficiency, she needs to nourish yin and tonify the kidney.

Nourishing Yin, a term in traditional Chinese medicine, refers to a treatment method that nourishes Yin fluid. It is suitable for hot flashes due to yin deficiency, night sweats, or excessive heat damaging body fluids with symptoms such as red tongue and dry mouth. Commonly used medicines include Adenophora sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum, Asparagus cochinchinensis, Dendrobium candidum, Lycium barbarum, etc. Nourishing yin also refers to replenishing yin, nourishing yin, and benefiting yin. It is a method to treat Yin deficiency syndrome.

Kidney tonification, a term in traditional Chinese medicine, refers to changing the state of kidney deficiency through diet, medicine, exercise, qigong, acupuncture, massage and other means. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney deficiency is divided into kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, and different diagnosis and treatment should be done according to different symptoms.

In fact, from another perspective, nourishing yin means replenishing kidney yin deficiency, and replenishing the kidney means replenishing kidney yang deficiency.

Therefore, we need to look at what it means to nourish yin and tonify the kidney from two aspects.

Kidney Yin deficiency, a type of kidney deficiency, is a term in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It refers to the symptoms caused by kidney yin deficiency, lack of nourishment, and endogenous heat, which is called kidney yin deficiency syndrome in clinical Chinese medicine. It is mostly caused by long-term illness, insufficient constitution, excessive sexual intercourse, or excessive intake of warm, dry and yin-depleting foods. Symptoms include soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, fever in the five parts of the body, hot flashes and night sweats, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, dry throat and red cheeks, red tongue with little fluid and no coating, and thin and rapid pulse. Treatment should be aimed at nourishing yin and reducing fire.

The main clinical manifestations of kidney yin deficiency include dizziness, tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, insomnia, hot flashes and night sweats, fever in the five parts of the body, dry throat and red cheeks, red tongue with little fluid, thin and rapid pulse, spermatorrhea in men and oligomenorrhea or amenorrhea in women.

The clinical manifestations of kidney yin deficiency can be summarized into ten aspects: soreness of waist and knees are due to insufficient kidney yin, reduced marrow and weak bones, and malnutrition of bones; dizziness and tinnitus are due to a lack of brain fullness; insomnia and frequent dreams are due to the imbalance of water and fire, hyperactivity of heart fire, and restlessness of the mind; strong and easy erection is due to the reckless movement of the phase fire due to yin deficiency; spermatorrhea and nocturnal emissions are due to the restlessness of the monarch fire, which disturbs the sperm chamber; oligomenorrhea and amenorrhea are due to insufficient source of menstrual blood due to yin deficiency; metrorrhagia is seen in yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, and virtual heat forcing blood; weight loss, dry throat and red cheeks are due to kidney yin deficiency; hot flashes, night sweats, fever in the five hearts, yellow urine and dry stools are all due to endogenous virtual heat; red tongue with little fluid and thin pulse are all signs of yin deficiency.