How to replenish insufficient vitality

Insufficient vital energy is a term used in traditional Chinese medicine. There is no such concept in Western medicine. To explain insufficient vital energy in Western medicine is that the body is in a sub-healthy state. There are many reasons for insufficient vital energy in our body. It is generally believed that trauma or surgery, excessive menstrual blood volume in women, and emotional fluctuations can all lead to insufficient vital energy.

Lack of vitality can cause cold hands and feet and hair loss. In addition, lack of vitality can cause cysts in the uterus and breasts of women. Lack of vitality can cause great harm to the body.

According to the principle of traditional Chinese medicine "support the deficiency, drain the excess, cool the heat, and heat the cold", if the vital energy is insufficient or even seriously injured, supplements should be taken in four aspects: replenishing qi deficiency (for those with qi deficiency), replenishing blood deficiency (for those with blood deficiency), replenishing yin deficiency (for those with yin deficiency), and replenishing yang deficiency (for those with yang deficiency) according to the individual's constitution and symptoms. The core is to replenish the deficiency and strengthen the body.

Symptoms of Qi deficiency: pale complexion, shortness of breath, weakness in the limbs, dizziness, sweating when moving, low voice, loss of appetite, deficiency heat, spontaneous sweating, rectal prolapse, prolapsed uterus, pale and fat tongue with teeth marks on the edges of the tongue, weak pulse, etc.

Foods to replenish qi deficiency: polished rice, beef, dog meat, chicken, silver carp, eel, mandarin fish, jujube, cherry, peanut, yam, bird's nest

Medicine and food: Ginseng and Astragalus

Symptoms of blood deficiency: sallow and pale complexion, pale lips and nails, dizziness, numbness of limbs, stiffness of tendons and veins, insomnia, dry skin, dry hair, as well as dry and hard stools, difficult urination, irregular menstruation, scanty and light menstruation, pale tongue, slippery and dry tongue coating, and a thready and weak pulse.

Blood-replenishing ingredients: black-bone chicken, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, red beans, black sesame, longan meat, black rice

Medicine and food have the same origin: you can choose angelica, donkey-hide gelatin, and cooked rehmannia

Symptoms of Yin deficiency: impatient temperament, easy to be upset, easily irritated, mood swings, heat in the five hearts (two palms, two soles of the feet and the top of the head), dry mouth and throat, irritability and rough breathing, yellow urine and dry stools, palpitations and shortness of breath, dizziness, poor mental state; irregular menstruation, dull complexion, melanin deposition, the growth of chloasma and butterfly spots, and premature entry into menopause.

Yin-replenishing food: soft-shelled turtle, squid, duck, black fish, jellyfish, white fungus, lotus root, enoki mushroom, wolfberry, mulberry, water chestnut, raw pear

Medicine and food have the same origin: Cordyceps sinensis, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Polygonatum odoratum can be used

Symptoms of Yang deficiency: In addition to the symptoms of Qi deficiency, fear of cold and cold limbs are the main symptoms of Yang deficiency. Dizziness, discomfort in the ribs, breast pain, cold pain in the lower abdomen, fatigue, difficulty urinating, pale tongue, white tongue coating, deep and thin pulse, etc.

Foods to replenish yang deficiency: dog meat, mutton, chicken, pork tripe, kelp, leek, walnut kernel, scallion, sea cucumber, shrimp

Medicine and food: red ginseng, deer antler, eucommia bark, seahorse, etc.

In the above article, we introduced what is deficiency of vital energy. We know that deficiency of vital energy is a term used in traditional Chinese medicine.

From the perspective of Western medicine, insufficient vital energy is similar to sub-health. Insufficient vital energy can cause various diseases in our body, so we must adopt appropriate methods to replenish vital energy. The above article introduces in detail how to replenish insufficient vital energy.