For “kidney deficiency” this word, we usually talk a lot, men are especially afraid to wear this hat, when it comes to kidney deficiency, most people think of is the decline in sexual function, in fact, this is a misunderstanding of Chinese medicine “kidney” function, here the author will cite the scriptures, clear kidney of The concept of the kidney to eliminate misconceptions.
1. The kidney does have an entity, which has been recognized in ancient times.
As early as the Ming Dynasty, the doctor Zhao Xian can in the “Medical Guan” has a detailed description of the kidney form, “the kidney has two, the essence of the residence also, born in the ridge Qi 14 vertebrae under the two sides of an inch and a half, shaped like cowpeas, together and curved attached to the ridge outside, there is yellow fat wrapped, white outside black”. That is, the kidney is located on both sides of the second lumbar vertebrae, morphologically like fava beans, one on each side, which is basically consistent with the understanding of modern medicine. Urology Department, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ruixin Dai
2. there are differences in function, this “kidney” is not the other “kidney”.
The function of the kidney in modern medicine refers only to the function of the physical organ, which can be roughly understood as excreting metabolic waste in the body, maintaining the stability of the body’s electrolytes and acid-base balance. The kidney function in Chinese medicine, on the other hand, is much broader in scope. Today we are going to answer the main function of the kidney to store essence (i.e., the kidney has the function of storing and sealing the essence of the human body) in a question-and-answer format.
Q: It is too conceptual, can you make it more common?
A: In layman’s terms, the kidneys will store up whatever is good and beneficial to the body.
Q: What is the reserve?
A: Kidney essence! The so-called “essence” refers to the tangible substances that make up the human body to maintain human growth and development, reproduction and the functional activities of the internal organs. It includes the vital substance endowed by parents, the innate essence, and the food essence acquired later in life, the acquired essence.
Q: What is “innate essence”?
A: “Jing Yue Quan Shu” says that “the shape is formed when the essence is united, the shape is also the essence, and the essence is also the shape”, which means that the innate essence is endowed by the parents and is the original material that constitutes the embryo, and the initial form should be the fertilized egg, which is nurtured and grown in the mother’s body, and is influenced by heredity and the state of the mother’s body during pregnancy, so everyone is born with a difference. The one with sufficient kidney essence is well developed, strong and intelligent, while the one with insufficient kidney essence is stunted, thin and mentally retarded.
Q: So, doesn’t birth determine the rest of your life?
A: Before answering this question, we have to talk about the “postnatal essence”. After birth, what do we rely on to continue our growth and development, and to maintain our daily activities? We rely on “acquired essence”, which comes from our food and, of course, some medicines. It is easy to understand the relationship between the two. The innate essence is inherited from the mother’s womb, but it must be fed by food. This is a very general statement in “What does it mean to be a doctor”: “The essence is the most important treasure of the whole body, originally from the congenital and becomes in the later days, all five organs have and belong to the kidneys. Now look at the previous question, the answer is naturally there, the acquired essence can help us to make up for some congenital deficiencies, especially through Chinese herbal medicine, so we can often see in the hospital that Chinese doctors use the method of kidney supplementation to treat some small children with late fontanelle, late walking, late talking, and little hair, but we also need to realize that supplementing the latter is not feasible in all aspects, for example, in genetic defects, some However, it is important to realize that posterior supplementation is not feasible in all areas, for example, in genetic defects and some congenital organic pathologies.
Q: What is the role of the kidney in storing this so-called “essence”?
A: Kidney essence is the root of the human body, it promotes the growth, development and reproductive ability of the body. Since ancient times, various generations of physicians have believed that the development of reproductive organs and their reproductive capacity are dependent on the adequacy of kidney essence. According to this theory, fixing the kidney essence and preserving it has become one of the important methods for treating abnormalities in sexual and reproductive functions. The reason for emphasizing one of them here is to tell you that abnormalities in fertility and sexual function are not always caused by kidney deficiency, so it is best to consult a specialist when you don’t have expertise in this area and not to take supplements blindly. In addition, in addition to sexual function, kidney essence more importantly determines the whole life process of birth, aging, sickness and death, due to the changes in the strength and weakness of the essence in the kidney, presenting different physiological stages of birth, growth, strength, old age and already. Why is it that when people get old their bones become osteoporotic? Does hair turn gray? Hearing is poor? The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine said “the kidney is the main body of the bone marrow” “kidney, …… its Hua in the hair” “kidney gas through the ear, the kidney and can hear the five sounds carry on. ” This shows that the people old kidney essence is naturally deficient, the organs are out of order, to slow down the aging process, so that the organs work more years, the kidney is is a good recipe.