To determine kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, it can be judged by a medical professional through symptoms, tongue and pulse, and other manifestations.
Kidney yin deficiency is mainly manifested as soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, hot flashes in the afternoon and at night, flushing of the cheekbones, sweating at night, heartburn and heat (heat in the heart of the hands and feet, and self-consciousness of the heart and chest heat), spermatorrhea and semen leakage, and so on, and the tongue and pulse are manifested as a red tongue with little fluids, less moss, even no moss, and a fine pulse (pulse becomes narrower and finer, and its rate is accelerated), and so on.
Kidney yang deficiency is mainly manifested as cold waist and knees, cold limbs, long and clear urine, frequent urination, enuresis, edema, swelling below the waist, impotence in men, irregular menstruation in women, infertility in the uterus, etc. Tongue and pulse are manifested as a pale and fat tongue, white moss and slippery, and the pulse is slow and weak.
If the manifestation of kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency occurs, the clinician should be consulted and the diagnosis and treatment should be carried out according to the doctor’s instructions.