Excessive indoor labor is a deficiency of yin or yang

Excessive indoor labor may lead to kidney yin deficiency or kidney yang deficiency, which should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Kidney yin deficiency can be caused by prolonged illness, congenital insufficiency of endowment (poor innate constitution and functioning), over-exertion of indoor labor, and over-taking of warm and dry products. Kidney yin deficiency manifests as night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep and stopping sweating after waking up), lumbar and knee soreness (a feeling of soreness and weakness in the lumbar and knee areas), dry mouth and sore throat, heartburn and heat (heat in the hearts of the hands and feet, and self-consciousness of the heart and chest) or afternoon hot flashes (a bout of heat), a tongue that is red and little moss or no moss, and so forth, and the treatment is to nourish yin and replenish the kidneys with the formula of the Six Flavors of the Earth (Six-flavored Digitally Translucent Pill), and so on. Kidney yang deficiency can be caused by overwork, physical yang deficiency, old age, physical weakness, chronic illness and other factors, the symptoms of the waist and knees, cold pain, fear of cold limbs cold, the lower limbs are especially bad, mental depression, diarrhea, spermatorrhea, tongue pale moss white. The treatment is to warm the kidneys to help yang (warming and tonifying the yang qi of the kidneys), and the formula is Jin Gui Kidney Qi Pill and so on. After the appearance of discomfort should promptly seek medical treatment, under the guidance of the doctor to choose medication, not self-medication.