Chinese medicine recognizes spleen and kidney yang deficiency with cold dampness as a cold dampness syndrome of spleen and kidney yang deficiency, which can be treated by warming the yang, dispelling the cold, strengthening the spleen and resolving the dampness.
Patients suffering from Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency with Cold and Dampness will have soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, cold pain in the lower abdomen, prolonged diarrhea and dysentery or indigestion of the bowels, edema, dysuria (unruly urination), fear of cold, a pale, fat tongue, white moss, and a sluggish, feeble pulse.
Zhang Zhongjing mentioned Taiyin Disease in “Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever”, Taiyin Disease is the evidence of Yang deficiency of the spleen and kidneys, which is manifested by the internalization of cold and dampness.
Therefore, it can be treated by warming the yang, dispelling cold, strengthening the spleen and resolving dampness, and the formula Four Reversed Soup and Gui Zhi plus Paeoniae Alba Soup can be used to treat Tai Yin Disease.
Spleen and kidney yang deficiency with cold and dampness can be treated by warming yang, dispelling cold, strengthening the spleen and resolving dampness. If symptoms of spleen and kidney yang deficiency with cold and dampness appear, timely medical treatment is needed to avoid delaying the condition. Drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician.