Kidney Health in Traditional Chinese Medicine And Foods

"The kidney is the official of strength and skill. According to Chinese medicine, the kidney is the driving force behind the body's vital activities and is the "old capital" of our body. The kidney is the main reservoir of essence, and the strength or weakness of the kidney is related to the ability to reproduce and grow and develop.

If the kidneys are sufficient, the body will be healthy and live longer; if the kidneys are deficient, there will be many diseases and short life spans, so nourishing the kidneys is essential to our health. The essence of the kidney comes from the congenital source and is enriched in the postnatal period. After reaching middle age, the kidney function begins to decline gradually and the loss of kidney energy is accelerated in old age.

Main Physiological Functions of the Kidney

The kidney is responsible for the metabolism of water and fluids

Chinese medicine believes that the body's water metabolism is mainly related to the lungs, spleen and kidneys, with the kidneys being the most critical.

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The kidney collects the essence

The kidney is the main reservoir of innate essence. The kidney is also responsible for a person's reproductive essence, which is responsible for fertility and fertility, and the strength of the kidney can determine the strength of fertility.

The kidney is responsible for receiving qi

The nasal Qi is also known as receiving Qi. Gas is inhaled from the mouth and nose to the lungs, so the lungs are the main gas. The lungs are the main exhale, the kidney is the main gas, the lungs receive the gas eventually to the kidney.

General knowledge of kidney care

The kidney, commonly known as the "kidney", is an important organ in the human body and is the material basis for the body to regulate the nervous, endocrine and immune systems. The kidney is the regulating center of the human body, the source of life of the human body, and is in charge of the whole process of growth and development, aging and death.

Specific manifestations of kidney abnormalities

There are no symptoms when the kidney function is abnormal at the beginning, but as its function decreases, it can show different degrees of edema, increased nocturia, decreased appetite, nausea and vomiting, difficulty in breathing, palpitations, and weakness.

Kidney deficiency is a manifestation of kidney deficiency, which can be divided into kidney yang deficiency and kidney yin deficiency, with different symptoms, as follows.

1. Kidney deficiency mainly manifests as fear of cold, diarrhea, often accompanied by mental weakness, soreness and cold pain in the waist and knees, sallow complexion, long and clear urine, and other symptoms. Men may suffer from impotence, premature ejaculation and spermatorrhea; women may suffer from leucorrhea and infertility.

Kidney yin deficiency is characterized by upper fire. Kidney yin is the root of yin fluid, which nourishes and moisturizes the body.

If the deficiency of kidney yin leads to water deficiency, the body will experience symptoms similar to fire, mainly dry mouth and tongue, irritable heart, red face, night sweats, dry stools, short and red urine, etc. In men, the symptoms include easy lifting of the yang and early ejaculation; in women, the symptoms include menstrual cramps, amenorrhea or menorrhagia.

Kidney disease usually has no obvious symptoms, but if you have the following symptoms, you should be alert and seek medical attention as soon as possible.

Edema of the eyelids and ankles

Elevated blood pressure

Pain in the lower back and abdomen

Hematuria, proteinuria

Urinary tract infection

Painful urination

Increased or decreased urine output and increased nocturia

Small gravel in urine

Kidney Care Tips

Limit potassium

Do not eat foods with high potassium content, such as mushrooms and nori; soak foods with medium potassium content for 30 minutes before cooking, such as loofah, bitter gourd, mushrooms, etc.

Low phosphorus

Do not eat foods with high phosphorus content, such as cereals, mushrooms, animal offal, etc. Meat should be cut into slices and cooked.

Reduce sodium

Eat less sodium-containing condiments such as salt, MSG, sauces, etc.; eat more low-sodium condiments such as vinegar, pepper, green onion, ginger, garlic, etc.

Recommended herbs and foods: vinegar, pepper, ginger, garlic

Do not take medication indiscriminately

Taking medications, especially antibiotics, will increase the load on the kidneys and put pressure on the kidneys. Therefore, it is good for the kidney's health to not take medication indiscriminately or blindly.

Control the amount of nutrition intake

Excessive intake of protein and salt will increase the burden on the kidneys; sports drinks contain high levels of electrolytes and salts, which should be consumed with caution by patients with kidney disease.

Control blood sugar and blood pressure

The kidney is composed of millions of microvascular spheres. High blood pressure and high blood sugar will cause hardening of blood vessels and accelerate the aging of the kidney.

Massage and exercise

The waist is the seat of the kidneys, and regular massage of the lumbar eye can effectively prevent lumbar muscle strain and back pain due to kidney deficiency. Also can do more to stimulate the foot massage. Chinese medicine, the feet of the point of the welling spring is the place where the turbid gas descends, "Huangdi Nei Jing" recorded that "kidney out of the welling spring, welling spring is the heart of the foot.

Yongquan point is the first point of the kidney meridian, the kidney meridian of qi is like the source of water, source in the foot, well up to irrigate all the limbs around the body. Regularly massage the Yongquan point, can benefit the essence of the kidney, strengthen the body, and can soothe the liver and eyes, promote sleep, increase appetite.

Continuously take cistanche suitable for their own physique, can also be effective in tonifying the kidneys and fixing the essence, delaying aging.