How long does it take to recover from kidney deficiency?

In medicine, kidney deficiency is not just a simple kidney deficiency. There are many types of kidney deficiency. Some patients often have diarrhea, which may be due to kidney yin deficiency. Some patients look swollen on their faces, which may be due to kidney yang deficiency. Some patients may have kidney essence deficiency or qi deficiency. Finally, we can use the method of feeling the pulse to determine what kind of kidney deficiency the patient has, and then prescribe the right medicine for the patient. So how long does it take to recover from kidney deficiency?

To tonify the kidney, since there are different types of kidneys, such as yin deficiency, yang deficiency, essence deficiency, and qi deficiency, there are different ways and different medicines to tonify the kidney, such as tonifying kidney yang, nourishing kidney yin, benefiting kidney qi, and replenishing kidney essence. However, there is a wrong trend at present, that is, health products are mainly used to tonify deficiency, and tonifying deficiency is mainly used to tonify the kidney, and tonifying the kidney is mainly used to tonify kidney yang, resulting in the abuse of kidney-tonifying and yang-enhancing products.

The abuse of health products and Chinese herbal medicines for kidney tonic has caused some adverse consequences. In this regard, there is an old saying: Medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic, food tonic is not as good as spiritual tonic. To pursue health and regulate the symptoms of kidney deficiency, we must work harder on nutrition, adjust life patterns and physical exercise, and don't be superstitious about "health products".

Diet therapy for kidney deficiency:

(1) Chop a pair of dog kidneys, roast them, and grind them into fine powder. Take 3 grams every night with rice wine, twice a day. 

(2) Place the live loach in clean water and wash it after all the intestinal secretions are drained. Heat the oil pan, add a few slices of ginger, fry the loach until golden brown, add about 3 bowls of water, put in 50 grams of shrimp meat, cook together into soup, take once a day. 

(3) Wash a pig’s stomach and put 10g of Cistanche deserticola into it. Tie it up and cook it with water. Eat the meat and drink the soup. Take once a day.

The effects of this kind of medicine, Liuwei Dihuang Pills, are generally of a tonifying and purgative nature, but it tends to be more yin-tonifying.

Opinion and suggestion: Considering your current situation, this medicine is still okay. If the yin deficiency is particularly severe, with symptoms such as thirst, dry throat, and night sweats, it is recommended that you use Zhibai Dihuang Pills, which is better. Please use it under the guidance of a local doctor.