Tinnitus can be caused by both yin and yang deficiencies, and it is not possible to determine whether it is a yin or yang deficiency by tinnitus alone. Chinese medicine believes that the kidney opens the orifices in the ear, therefore, both kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency may cause tinnitus symptoms. Patients with kidney yin deficiency may experience dizziness and tinnitus due to insufficient yin fluid, internalized deficiency heat, and fire in the Qing orifices, accompanied by symptoms such as heartburn and heat (heat in the palms of the hands and the hearts of the feet, and self-consciousness about the heat in the heart and chest), insomnia, dreaminess, hot flashes (bursts of fever), and night sweating (abnormal sweating after falling asleep, which stops after waking up). Patients with Kidney-Yang deficiency usually have symptoms of tinnitus as Yang Qi is unable to glorify the ear orifices, which is accompanied by symptoms such as lumbar-knee tenderness (a feeling of soreness and weakness in the lumbar and knee regions), fear of coldness in general, lack of warmth in the limbs, swelling of the lower limbs, and dysuria (unsmooth urination). Tinnitus patients should be under the guidance of a professional physician’s diagnosis, the correct use of drugs for treatment, not self-medication.