Kidney deficiency is divided into Yin deficiency and Yang deficiency. Here is how to distinguish them correctly.

Clinically, kidney deficiency is divided into two types: kidney yang deficiency and kidney yin deficiency. If people want to identify their own symptoms of kidney deficiency in daily life, they can understand it from the following differences between the two.

Kidney Yin Deficiency:

The main symptoms are soreness of waist and knees, hotness in the five hearts, and the following symptoms may also occur: dizziness, tinnitus, weight loss, insomnia, red cheeks, hot flashes, night sweats, dry throat, impotence in men, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, oligomenorrhea, amenorrhea, metrorrhagia, infertility, and short, reddish and yellow urine in women. Most of the medicines for replenishing kidney yin deficiency are sweet and cold medicines, such as Dendrobium, Polygonatum, Cornus officinalis, Lycium barbarum, American ginseng, etc. The representative Chinese patent medicine is Liuwei Dihuang Pills.

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Symptoms include pale or dark complexion, sore waist and knees, lack of energy, cold hands and feet, fear of chills and wind, diarrhea, and body edema. In addition, women may experience symptoms such as infertility, enuresis, edema, and decreased libido. Drugs for tonifying kidney yang deficiency are mostly hot-natured drugs, such as aconite, cinnamon, deer antler, etc. The representative Chinese patent medicine is Guifu Dihuang Pills.