What Chinese medicine should I take for liver, spleen and kidney deficiency?

Long-term unhealthy living habits will lead to a gradual weakening of the physical constitution. Many patients go for check-ups due to physical discomfort but no problems are found. However, when they go to Chinese medicine, it is discovered that the liver, spleen and kidneys are weak. This type of spleen and kidney deficiency still needs to be adjusted by Chinese medicine. If the patient does not want to take Chinese medicine, Chinese patent medicine can be used instead. This article introduces the yin deficiency and yang deficiency of the spleen and kidneys respectively. Let’s take a look.

1. What Chinese patent medicine should be taken for spleen and kidney yang deficiency

Spleen and kidney yang deficiency is the name of a syndrome in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is mostly caused by weak constitution resulting in a heavier attack of cold evil, or long-term illness depleting the yang of the spleen and kidney, or prolonged diarrhea damaging the yang of the spleen and kidney, or deficiency of other organs affecting the spleen and kidney. Spleen deficiency and insufficient Yang Qi often cause large intestine dysfunction, which manifests as diarrhea or constipation. Malabsorption syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and habitual constipation often occur or are accompanied by this disease. The treatment of spleen and kidney yang deficiency is mainly based on strengthening the spleen, warming the kidney and replenishing yang. Commonly used Chinese patent medicines include ginseng Jianpi pills, Wubi Yam pills, Jinkui Shenqi pills, etc.

2. What to eat for spleen and kidney yang deficiency

1. Take Shenqi Pills with Guizhi Fangfeng decoction

Shenqi Pills is the main prescription for warming the kidney and supporting yang. In the formula, cooked rehmannia is sweet and warm and nourishes the kidney, while cornus officinalis and yam nourish the liver and spleen. The three medicines are used together to nourish the kidney, liver and spleen; aconite and cassia twig (or cinnamon) warm the kidney and assist yang; oriental water plantain, poria and moutan bark clear the turbid qi of the liver, spleen and kidney. The whole formula is warm but not dry, nourishing but not greasy, and focuses on warming the kidney Qi. Use cinnamon twig and saposhnikovia root to disperse the wind-cold on the surface, decoct it into a soup and take it with Shenqi Pills to achieve the purpose of warming the kidney, assisting yang and relieving the exterior.

2. Take Yougui Pills with a decoction of perilla leaves and ginger

The "You" in Yougui Pills means Mingmen, and Yougui refers to the medicine returning to Mingmen to warm and nourish the kidney yang. In the formula, cooked rehmannia nourishes kidney yin to assist kidney yang; deer antler glue is a product of blood and flesh, salty in taste and warm in nature, warming and nourishing the kidney and Du meridians; cornus fruit, yam, and wolfberry nourish the liver and kidney; dodder seed, cinnamon bark, and aconite warm the kidney and strengthen yang; angelica and eucommia warm and nourish the liver and kidney, dispel cold and strengthen the waist. The whole formula has the effect of warming yang, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the waist. It can be used for patients with kidney yang deficiency who suffer from chills, cold limbs, weak waist and knees, poor appetite, loose stools, pale complexion, or impotence, edema, etc. Boil perilla leaves and ginger in a soup and drink it to dispel wind and cold while warming the yang, which has the benefit of mutually supplementing each other. If the Yang deficiency is not severe, you can first relieve the symptoms and then apply warming and tonifying.

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