Kidney deficiency is categorized into kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency, which affect the human body differently.
Patients with kidney yang deficiency usually have symptoms such as aching and cold pain in the waist and knees, fear of cold limbs, fatigue (lack of mental energy), weakness, frequent and frequent urination, and so on. Men with kidney yang deficiency often suffer from frigidity, impotence, premature ejaculation and other male disorders; while women suffer from gynecological disorders such as infertility with uterine coldness, and abundant and scanty leukorrhea.
Patients with kidney yin deficiency usually have soreness and pain in the waist and knees, flushing in the cheekbones, dryness of the throat and cheekbones (redness of the cheeks and cheekbones), emaciation, night sweating (sweating abnormally after going to sleep, but sweating stops after waking up), tinnitus, insomnia and dreams, and heartburn and heat (warmth in the hearts of the hands and the feet, and a feeling of heartburn and heat in the chest), etc. Men tend to have strong yang (impotency and weakness of the vagina).
Men are more likely to have symptoms such as strong yang (the penis does not soften for a long time after erection, and semen overflows by itself), easy lifting, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, etc.; and women are more likely to have gynecological symptoms such as menstrual dysfunction, metrorrhagia (excessive amount of menstruation or more than a few drops of menstruation).
It is recommended that patients with the above symptoms of kidney deficiency should go to the hospital in time and follow the doctor’s instructions after the professional doctor’s diagnosis, so as to avoid delaying the condition.