Parents who come to see bedwetting often mention whether my child has kidney deficiency, let’s check the kidneys, don’t have a kidney problem.
Kidney deficiency is a term used in Chinese medicine. Kidney deficiency includes kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency.
The kidney yin deficiency is due to the loss of kidney yin, loss of nourishment, deficiency of heat within the manifestation of the symptoms, Chinese medicine clinical called kidney yin deficiency evidence. Most of the symptoms are caused by long term illness, or deficiency of endowment, or overworking, or over consumption of warm, dry and Yin robbing products. The symptoms include soreness of the waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia, sleeplessness, fever, night sweats, spermatorrhea, dry throat and red cheek, red tongue with little fluid and no moss, thin pulse, etc. Treatment is to nourish Yin and lower fire. Clinical manifestations: soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, weakness of the legs, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess; men with strong yang or impotence, spermatorrhea, women with scanty menstruation and menorrhagia, deficiency of kidney yin; or see leakage, emaciation, hot flashes and night sweats, irritable heat in the five hearts, dry throat and red cheekbones; white hair in adolescents, dreaming and grinding teeth, frequent urination, yellow urine and dry stool, red tongue with little fluid, fine pulse. According to Chinese medicine, the kidney is the root of the innate nature, and the yin essence in the kidney is the total source of the yin fluid. Yin essence deficiency can cause various diseases, such as dizziness, tinnitus, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, bone steam and hot flashes, and thirst (diabetes).
Kidney yang deficiency is a symptom of kidney yang exhaustion. It is mostly caused by Yang deficiency in the body, or by kidney deficiency in old age, or by injury to the kidneys due to prolonged illness, and by overwork. Clinical manifestations: soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, coldness and coldness of the limbs, especially in the lower limbs, dizziness of the head and eyes, depression, white face or black face, light fat tongue with white fur, sunken and weak pulse. The symptoms of kidney yang deficiency may include atrophy, infertility in women with cold uterus, or prolonged defecation, failure to transform the complete grain, diarrhea on the fifth shift, or swelling, especially below the waist, with no rise when pressed, or even abdominal distension and pain, palpitation and coughing. Clinical manifestations: There are several clinical manifestations of kidney yang deficiency, such as: fatigue, lack of energy, low vitality, easy fatigue; fear of cold, cold extremities (even in heavy cases in summer), sinking body; soreness of the waist and knees, cold pain in the back, atrophy of the tendons and bones; reduced sexual function, impotence, premature ejaculation, susceptibility to prostatitis, etc.; clear and long urine, incomplete urination, little urination or frequent night urination; hearing loss or tinnitus; memory loss, drowsiness, sleepiness, dreaminess, self-diagnosis. The kidneys in Chinese medicine are different from those in Western medicine in that they are prone to lumbago, joint pain, osteoporosis, cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis, etc.; shortage of breath, coughing and phlegm; diarrhea, or constipation; swelling of the body, especially below the waist, and edema of the lower extremities; painful swelling of the testicles in the abdomen, or contraction of the scrotum, which is worse when it is cold and slower when it is hot; easy loss of hair and early graying of the beard; weakness and fatness or thinness of the body; blue and white or sallow color in the face.
The kidney in TCM is different from Western medicine, as the term “kidney” in TCM refers not only to the anatomical organs, but also to the collection of functions of multiple systems represented by the anatomical kidney, covering the functions of the nervous system, endocrine system, reproductive system, urinary system, immune system, and respiratory system in Western medicine, including It includes the growth, development, reproduction, water and fluid metabolism, and mental and emotional functions of the human body.
According to Chinese medicine, the main physiological functions of the kidney are to store sperm, main reproduction and growth and development, main water, main Qi, main marrow and bone, open the ears, and its flora is in the hair, and its will is in fear and fright.
Defining the evidence of enuresis
According to traditional Chinese medicine, enuresis refers to the recurrence of unconscious urination in children over 3 years old who cannot wake up from sleep, more than a certain number of times a week for at least 3 months. It is also called “drowning” and “bedwetting” in Chinese medicine.
The general treatment is to warm the lower yuan and strengthen the bladder, using treatments such as warming the kidney yang, benefiting the spleen qi, tonifying the lung qi, awakening the mind and strengthening the bladder. However, not all of them are deficient, but there are also actual symptoms of heat depression in the liver meridian and mixed symptoms of deficiency in the heart and kidney.
Deficiency of cold in the lower yuan and kidney qi
The kidney is the root of the innate nature, the master of water, harboring the true yin and containing the yuan yang, which is connected to the yin, and is responsible for the two stools, which are in phase with the bladder. The bladder is the internal organs of fluids, urine is the surplus of fluids. Urine excretion and storage, all rely on the kidney Yang warming Qi. If a child has a deficiency of kidney qi, the lower yuan is cold and deficient and cannot warm the bladder, the bladder becomes dysfunctional, and the bladder is unable to control the water channels.
Symptoms: frequent loss of urine during sleep, more often several times a night, fatigue, pale face, cold and fear of cold, soreness of the waist and knees, weakness of the lower limbs, poor intelligence.
Treatment: warming the kidney and Yang, consolidating and stopping micturition
Spleen and Lung Qi deficiency, bladder failure
The lung is the master of the body’s qi and has the function of regulating the water channels and transmitting it down to the bladder. The spleen is a member of the middle earth, which likes dryness and hates dampness and can cure water. Only when the spleen and lungs function normally can the normal distribution and excretion of water in the body be maintained. If the lung is weak, the rule does not work, the qi is deficient in the lower trap, can not be fixed, then the decision is out of order, the bladder is not about, the fluid is not hidden; if the spleen is weak, can not disperse the fluid in the lung, the water is out of control. Lung spleen qi deficiency, the upper deficiency can not control the lower, the lower deficiency can not be carried up, resulting in no right to restrain the watercourse, the urine is left behind, or sleep in the urine from the.
Treatment: tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, consolidating the urine
Symptoms: frequent urination with little volume, frequent urine loss, little energy and laziness, fatigue, loose stools, frequent sweating, and little nasal discharge.
Dampness and heat in the liver meridian
The liver is the master of draining, regulating the qi flow, opening the three jiao and draining the waterways. If the damp-heat in the liver meridian is stagnant, the heat becomes fire, which forces the bladder to be filled with urine.
Symptoms: urine loss, not much urine, fishy smell, yellow urine, anxious temperament, dreaming of teeth, small urine volume
Treatment: Calming the liver and clearing heat
Heart and kidney disorder
Nighttime urination, difficulty in waking up at night, irritability of the five hearts, impatience, excessive activity, hyperactivity, lack of concentration, poor memory, emaciation, restlessness at night, dreaminess, murmuring, crying, sweating at night, red tongue, little coating, fine pulse or sunken pulse.
Treatment:Clear the heart and nourish the kidney, calm the mind and fix the bladder
Bedwetting and kidney and bladder related, but not exactly kidney deficiency, can not blindly supplement the kidney, must be dialectical treatment, symptomatic treatment.