KIDNEYS
KIDNEY-YANG DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
KIDNEY-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
KIDNEY-YANG DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
KIDNEY-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
Kidney-Yin deficiency with Empty-Heat
Kidney-Yin deficiency, Empty-Heat blazing
Clinical manifestations
Malar flush, mental restlessness, night sweating, low-grade fever, afternoon fever, a feeling of heat in the afternoon/evening, insomnia, scanty dark urine, blood in the urine, dry throat especially at night, thirst with a desire to drink in small sips, dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, lower backache, nocturnal emissions with dreams, excessive sexual desire, dry stools.
KIDNEY-YANG AND KIDNEY-YIN DEFICIENCY PATTERNS
Kidney-Yang and Kidney-Yin deficiency – predominance of Kidney-Yin deficiency
KIDNEY-QI NOT FIRM
Clinical manifestations
Soreness and weakness of the lower back, weak knees, clear frequent urination, weak-stream urination, abundant urination, dribbling after urination, incontinence of urine, enuresis, urination at night, nocturnal emissions without dreams, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhoea, prolapse of the uterus in women chronic white vaginal discharge, tiredness, a dragging-down feeling in the lower abdomen, recurrent miscarriage, a feeling of cold, cold limbs.
COMBINED PATTERNS
The Kidneys Combined Patterns are:
Kidney- and Liver-Yin deficiency
Clinical manifestations
Dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, lower backache, dull occipital or vertical headache, insomnia, numbness/tingling of the limbs, dry eyes, blurred vision, dry throat, dry hair and skin, brittle nails, dry vagina, night sweating, dry stools, nocturnal emissions, scanty menstruation or amenorrhoea, delayed cycle, infertility.
Tongue normal coloured without coating or with rootless coating.
Kidney and Heart not harmonized (Kidney- and Heart-Yin deficiency with Heart Empty-Heat)
Kidney- and Lung-Yin deficiency
Kidney- and Lung-Yin deficiency with Empty-Heat
Clinical manifestations
Dry cough which is worse in the evening, dry throat and mouth at night, thirst with a desire to drink in small sips, thin body, breathlessness on exertion, lower backache, night sweating, dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, scanty urination, a feeling of heat in the evening, five-palm heat, malar flush.
