What Are the Differences Between Kidney Yang Deficiency and Kidney Yin Deficiency in Women?
Kidney deficiency is a common disease. However, it is not exclusive to males, as females can also suffer from it. Kidney deficiency is divided into Kidney Yang Deficiency and Kidney Yin Deficiency, and there are significant differences between the two. When women experience kidney deficiency, it is necessary to clarify whether it is Kidney Yang Deficiency or Kidney Yin Deficiency before treatment, as the treatment methods for Yang deficiency and Yin deficiency are different. Kidney deficiency requires targeted treatment, and blind treatment can delay the condition and lead to worse symptoms.
Symptoms of Female Kidney Yang Deficiency include: menstrual cycles that are always delayed, with light and thin menstrual flow, as well as stagnation of Qi and blood leading to blockage of Chong and Ren meridians, menstrual disorders, or difficulty in menstruation with frequent abdominal bloating and pain, dark-colored menstrual blood clots. There may also be paleness or dark complexion, coldness and soreness in the waist and knees, cold extremities, mental fatigue, and general weakness.
Symptoms of Female Kidney Yin Deficiency include: scanty or absent menstruation, or menorrhagia, emaciation, hot flashes, night sweats, five-palm heat (feeling of heat in both palms, both feet, and the center of the chest), dry throat and cheekbones, yellow urine and dry stool, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse. Age also plays a role, with younger individuals generally experiencing Yin deficiency and internal heat, while older individuals often experience Yang deficiency and cold symptoms.
Kidney Yang Deficiency refers to the syndrome manifested by the depletion and decline of kidney Yang function. Common symptoms include aversion to cold, mental lethargy, soreness and tinnitus in the waist, pale tongue with white fur, obesity, sore and cold waist, cold extremities, and frequent urination. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, Yang deficiency leads to external coldness, manifesting as symptoms of cold intolerance, pale complexion, aversion to cold, cold extremities, clear and long urine, and loose stool. There may also be low libido, which is similar to low levels of male hormones in modern medicine. Yang deficiency manifests externally with symptoms such as cold intolerance, male impotence and premature ejaculation, delayed and scanty menstruation with dark menstrual blood in women, and slow and deep pulse.
Kidney Yin Deficiency refers to the syndrome manifested by insufficient kidney Yin and internal disturbance of deficient fire. Kidney Yin deficiency involves the depletion of Yin fluids, commonly manifesting as symptoms such as lung heat, dry throat, soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, red tongue with little coating, dry mouth and throat, yellow urine and dry stool, irritability, heat sensation and sweating in the palms, fatigue in the limbs, hair loss, loose teeth, decreased memory, decreased libido, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, thin and rapid pulse, and constipation. According to traditional Chinese medicine theory, Yin deficiency leads to internal heat, manifesting as symptoms such as five-palm heat (sensation of heat in both palms, both feet, and the center of the chest), and nocturnal hot flashes and sweating.
Young and middle-aged individuals tend to have higher levels of physical activity, whether it be through study, exercise, or other forms of physical exertion. As a result, they may experience greater material depletion and their libido may not be particularly low. However, they may experience rapid ejaculation or spermatorrhea, indicating a need to nourish kidney Yin.
