Symptoms of kidney deficiency headache and treatment methods of kidney deficiency headache

Headache is a common symptom in people's daily life. Generally speaking, the causes of headache are different, among which kidney deficiency is the most common cause. So, what are the symptoms of kidney deficiency headache?

Symptoms of Kidney Deficiency Headache:

"The Standard of Diagnosis and Treatment of Miscellaneous Diseases" states: "Lower deficiency is caused by kidney deficiency, so kidney deficiency causes headaches." Symptoms of kidney yin deficiency include empty and painful head, dizziness, tinnitus, weakness in waist and knees, red tongue and thin pulse. Symptoms of kidney yang deficiency include headache, fear of cold, cold limbs, pale complexion, pale tongue, and deep and fine pulse.

The brain is the sea of ​​marrow, and the kidneys are responsible for storing essence and producing marrow. Kidney deficiency causes insufficient essence and marrow, which leads to malnutrition of the marrow sea and causes headache, dizziness and tinnitus. For those with kidney yin deficiency, the treatment should be to nourish kidney yin, using Liuwei Dihuang Pills or Dabuyuan Decoction with modifications. For those with kidney yang deficiency, the treatment should be to warm and tonify the kidney yang, using prescriptions such as Yougui Pills and Zhengyuan Dan with modifications.

Clinical manifestations: headache and emptiness, often accompanied by dizziness and tinnitus, chills and cold limbs, soreness of waist and knees, spermatorrhea and leukorrhea, dark complexion, thin white tongue coating, deep, thready and weak pulse or slow and weak pulse.

Treatment of headache due to kidney deficiency:

Treatment method: Nourish the kidney and replenish essence, strengthen the spleen and dispel wind.

Basic prescription and medicine: Rehmannia glutinosa, Cornus officinalis, Chinese yam, Lycium barbarum, Codonopsis pilosula, Poria cocos, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Tribulus terrestris, and Perilla frutescens (crush and fry first).

Explanation of the prescription: The main ingredients of the prescription are Rehmannia glutinosa, Cornus officinalis, and Lycium barbarum, which nourish the kidney and replenish essence; they are supplemented with Codonopsis pilosula, Dioscorea batatas, and Poria cocos, which replenish Qi and strengthen the spleen; Ligusticum chuanxiong and Tribulus terrestris dispel wind and relieve headaches, while Purple Clam clears the liver, suppresses Yang, and benefits the head, all of which serve as adjuvants.

Clinical additions and subtractions: For patients with physical weakness, headache, chills, and pale complexion, add aconite, deer antler, placenta, angelica, etc.; for patients with brain swelling and red face, and high blood pressure, add selfheal, magnetite, Achyranthes bidentata, Alisma orientalis, etc.