What is the best medicine for women with kidney deficiency?

Kidney deficiency can be divided into two categories: kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. Nowadays, not only women suffer from kidney yin deficiency, but men can also suffer from this disease. However, we hear that kidney deficiency is more common in men, but it does not mean that kidney deficiency in women is not more serious. Women with kidney deficiency also need to choose appropriate medications according to their own conditions. So today I will tell you what is the best medicine for women with kidney deficiency.

No matter whether it is Yin deficiency or Yang deficiency, when the deficiency reaches a certain degree, it will cause Yin to damage Yang, or Yang to damage Yin. Women with kidney yin deficiency usually use donkey-hide gelatin and Huangjing pills to nourish yin and tonify the kidney. After a long-term investigation on the use of donkey-hide gelatin and Huangjing pills to nourish kidney yin, maintain beauty and anti-aging in women, it was found that it is currently the most commonly used yin-tonifying prescription for women. In addition, donkey-hide gelatin and Huangjing pills can nourish the liver and kidneys, moisturize the five internal organs, increase qi and strength, grow muscles, and fill the brain marrow. They can be used to treat dizziness, premature graying of hair, hair loss, soreness of the waist and knees, fatigue of the limbs, difficulty walking, deficiency of the five internal organs, dry skin and hair, dry intestines and constipation caused by insufficient liver and kidney essence and blood. It is also well-known for its effect in removing spots and beautifying the skin.

People often talk about "kidney deficiency" when joking, and many people may think that "kidney deficiency is a man's matter and has nothing to do with women." This is wrong and is corrected here.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the foundation of one's innate constitution. The body's innate kidney essence depends on the parents. Both men and women may suffer from kidney deficiency. Women are more likely to suffer from kidney deficiency than men due to their special physiological conditions such as menstruation, uterine pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation.

The main symptoms of kidney yin deficiency in women are soreness in the waist and knees, hot hands and feet, tinnitus and dizziness, dry mouth and tongue, itchy skin, insomnia, dreaminess, and irritability. Some women may experience constipation, oligomenorrhea, or even amenorrhea.

Affected by kidney yin deficiency, water deficiency cannot control fire, and blood weakness cannot nourish the flesh, which can subsequently cause premature aging of women's faces, with symptoms such as chloasma, dark circles under the eyes, hair loss, gray hair, and loose teeth.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the kidney is the most special organ among the five internal organs. The Thirty-sixth Difficulty in the Difficult Classic states: “The kidneys have two parts, the left one is the kidney and the right one is the gate of life.” The left one represents water and the right one represents fire, thus the kidney is referred to as the “house of water and fire.” Kidney water is kidney yin, also known as yuan yin and true yin, which moisturizes and nourishes various organs and tissues. Since kidney yin is based on the essence and qi in the kidney, in order to accurately grasp the "kidney yin", we must first define the "kidney essence".

There are two sources of kidney essence. One is the innate essence, which is inherited from parents, born before the body, and has genetic characteristics. The other is the acquired essence, which comes from the essence of water and grain produced by the spleen and stomach after birth, as well as the essence and qi generated by the physiological activities of the internal organs. The two complement each other and merge into one to become the essence of the kidneys.

From the above, we can see that insufficient kidney yin is the root cause of the symptoms of kidney yin deficiency, and kidney yin originates from kidney essence. Kidney essence consists of two parts: innate essence and acquired essence. Therefore, to find the cause of kidney yin deficiency, we should start from both the innate and acquired aspects.

The main congenital factors are: after people are forty, the essence of life is exhausted and the innate yin essence declines, which leads to insufficient acquired yin essence and lack of kidney yin.

The acquired factors include: excessive consumption of essence, internal injuries and overwork, which lead to internal consumption of essence and energy; internal accumulation of evil heat, which burns the yin and consumes essence; serious and long-term illness, which leads to deficiency of essence and yin; improper conditioning, which leads to lack of source of essence production. Excessive loss of semen will lead to insufficient semen and thus deficiency of kidney yin.