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Description
金匮肾气丸 / Jin Gui Shen Qi Wan
Treats the following symptoms:
Tags: aching and lassitude in lower back and legs, ageing, cold feeling in the lower part of the body, dropping of urine after urination and bedwetting, frequency urine especially during night, impotence, incontinence, irregular menstruation, late menstruation, low blood pressure (hypotension), menopausal syndrome, premature ejaculation, underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism), water retention (oedema)
Tonic Yang originated from the “Essentials of the Golden Chamber” written in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in China. It has more than 1,800 years of clinical use in history. It is the basic prescription for replenishing Kidney Qi and Kidney Yang. The symptoms of Kidney Qi and Kidney Yang Deficiency are characterized by the body’s fear of cold, back pain, weakness in the knee, oedema, urinary retention or frequent and clear urination or nocturia, increased urinary incontinence, pale tongue and pulse weakness.
Kidney Qi and Kidney Yang Deficiency are usually seen in many diseases such as incontinence, urinary dysfunctions, premature ejaculation, chronic nephritis, diabetic hyperaldosteronism, low blood pressure, renal oedema, adrenal insufficiency, hypothyroidism, low immunity, menopausal syndrome, late and irregular menstruation.
BOOSTING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Typical symptoms:
Disease description:
The immune system serves to protect our bodies against viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. The system in itself is highly complex and science has yet to fully understand it. Unfortunately, the body’s defence does not always work optimally and sometimes pathogens manage to overcome our natural defence, making the body susceptible to infections such as colds and flu and other diseases. In some cases, over-reactions of the immune system can lead to allergies or autoimmune diseases. Nutrition, fresh air and exercise have an important role in strengthening the immune system.
Explanation according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine:
The immune system is what Chinese medicine calls Zhengqi or Wei Qi and it is the body’s defence mechanism. If the organs and meridians Qi are insufficient, the Evil will invade the body and cause diseases. Therefore, boosting and balancing the immune system is improving the body’s ability to resist Evil or to recover from chronic diseases by supplementing Qi and Blood.
Possible syndromes causing these problems:
Wei Qi Deficiency
Wei Qi Deficiency due to Lung Qi Deficiency, susceptibility to cold and flu, bronchitis, asthma, allergic conditions.
for improving general immune system: Tonic Defensive Qi
for allergic condition: Tonic Defensive Qi + Cinnamon Formula
Recommended formulas to use:
Qi Deficiency
Immune deficiency, fatigue or poor appetite, low blood pressure.
generally: Four Gentlemen Formula
if very serious: Arouse Center Qi
for supporting cancer treatment: Ganoderma Spore Powder
Recommended formulas to use:
Qi and Blood Deficiency
Immune deficiency, tired easily after exercising, giving birth or operation, poor sleep and poor memory, anaemia.
Recommended formulas to use:
Yang Deficiency
Immune deficiency, aversion to cold, feeling cold in the lower part of the body, low libido.
Recommended formulas to use:
Qi Deficiency and Latent Toxin
Immune deficiency, fatigue syndrome caused by viral infections, e.g. HIV/AIDS and immune-compromised patient.
Recommended formulas to use:
DEPRESSION
Disease description:
Everyone knows a phase in life when you are sad and can’t be happy about anything. Certain signs indicate that it is a serious mental illness, a depression, and not only a temporary phase: a depressed mood, suffer from loss of interest and joylessness, exhaustion and lacking in drive, persist over a longer period. They affect central life functions and can lead to sleep disorders, concentration problems, loss of appetite and libido and can even develop into physical symptoms such as pain, stomach pressure or headaches.
Explanation according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Chinese medicine believes that the occurrence of depression is mainly a Liver dysfunction which affects the Heart, Spleen, Kidney and other organs. It leads to Stagnation and reversal of Qi, retention of endogenous Phlegm, Blood Stasis and Shen disturbance.
Possible syndromes causing these problems:
Liver Qi Stagnation
Liver Qi Stagnation can disturb Spleen function and generate Phlegm or it can generate Heat or Blood Stagnation. It can lead to irritability, lack of social interest, breast distension, poor appetite.
Main Formula: Merry Life Formula
or Relaxed Wanderer if additionally, symptoms like increased irritability, red face, restlessness and dry mouth occur, which is a pattern of Liver Heat.
or Smooth Liver if stress related rib-side pain or stomach pain
Recommended formulas to use:
Phlegm Retention
Phlegm blocks the flow of Qi and disturbs Heart Shen, causing: depression, lack of social interest, significant changes in appetite and/or bodyweight, chest oppression, feeling of a lump in the throat, brain fog can occur.
Recommended formulas to use:
Liver Qi Stagnation and Kidney Yang Deficiency (often seen in old patients)
Liver Qi Stagnation and Kidney Yang Deficiency are leading to: depression, extreme tiredness, lack of social interest, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, back pain, cold feeling.
Combine Tonic Yang with either Merry Life or Smooth Liver
Recommended formulas to use:
DIABETES (NON-INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETES)
Typical symptoms:
diabetes, dry mouth, fatigue, loss of energy, thirst, wound or ulcer healing slowly or with difficultyDisease description:
Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases which are characterized by a chronically elevated blood sugar level. Most common are Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, which usually begins in childhood or adolescence, where the immune system attacks the body. As a result, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas die and lead to an absolute deficiency of the body’s hormone insulin. Without insulin, blood sugar levels rise, and patients become insulin-dependent and have to inject it.
About 90% of diabetics have type 2 diabetes, they are non-insulin-dependent, but in later stages can become insulin-dependent. Overweight, unhealthy nutrition and too little exercise increases the risk of disease and can lead to diabetes in genetically predisposed individuals. Type 2 diabetics have an elevated sugar level in the blood due to insulin resistance, meaning the body’s cells react less well to insulin. Insulin is responsible for transferring sugar molecules from the blood into the cells. If the insulin resistance is too high – the sugar accumulates in the blood vessels. Elevated blood sugar levels are mainly indicated by fatigue, lack of drive, increased thirst and urination, a tendency to catch infections and poorly healing wounds, as well as dry or itching skin. Acute complications are infections, severe high sugar level up to sugar coma. Complications arising in the large and small blood vessels and nervous system can lead to heart, eye and kidney disease, as well as diabetic foot syndrome.
Explanation according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Chinese medicine believes that diabetes, known as Xiao-Ke Syndrome (emaciation and thirst), is caused by improper diet as well as emotional depression which are leading to Lung, Kidney and Yin Deficiency and Spleen and Stomach Heat. Symptoms of Lung Yin Deficiency are excessive thirst or hunger, Kidney Yin Deficiency and Endogenous Deficiency fire can cause excessive or an abnormally large production or passage of urine. So, the root cause of diabetes is Yin Deficiency and Heat is the appearance.
Xiao-Ke is commonly classified into three types according to the Chinese medicine theories: Upper, Middle and Lower Jiao. The Upper type is characterized by excessive thirst, the Middle by excessive hunger, and the Lower by excessive urination.
Due to the prolonged course of diabetes, Yin Deficiency and Dry Heat will consume Yang, so the problem often develops into Kidney Yin Deficiency or Kidney Yin and Kidney Yang Deficiency Syndrome. If it is further extended for a long time, Stasis Syndrome will appear with symptoms like fundus disease or diabetic foot.
Possible syndromes causing these problems:
Beginning Stage in middle and upper Jiao with Lung and Stomach Heat and Yin Deficiency
Heat consumes body fluids: thirst, dry mouth, possibly frequent urination, hunger, elevated blood glucose
Recommended formulas to use:
Later Stage in lower Jiao: Kidney Yin Deficiency
Prolonged diabetes consumes Yin and causes Kidney Yin Deficiency : frequent and excessive urination, cloudy/ milky urination, dryness, red tongue, rapid pulse, eye symptoms.
Recommended formulas to use:
Later Stage in lower Jiao: Kidney Yin and Kidney Yang Deficiency
Prolonged diabetes consumes Yin and causes Kidney Yin and Yang Deficiency : frequent and excessive urination, cloudy/ milky urination, darkened face, dryness, low back and knee pain, aversion of cold, low libido, pale tongue and white coating, weak pulse
Recommended formulas to use:
Blockage and Stagnation of Meridians / Diabetic Foot Syndrome
Yin Deficiency and Empty Heat blocking Meridians and causing nerve inflammation:
tingling feeling in the hands and feet
Formula to use: Clear Root Fire + Diabetic Herbs
Heat creates a local Blood Stagnation:
hot feeling gangrenes, painful, red, burning
Formula to use: Clear Toxic Heat + Expel Stasis + Diabetic Herbs
Yin and Yang Deficiency creating Blood Stagnation and Yang can not reach limbs:
cold feeling gangrenes, painful, dark color
Formula to use: Warm Cold Limbs + Diabetic Herbs
Recommended formulas to use:
HIGH CHOLESTEROL
Disease description:
Cholesterol is a fatty substance that is found in the blood and naturally produced in the liver. Only a small part of the cholesterol is absorbed with food. Too much Cholesterol is deposited in the blood vessels and stored in the walls of the arteries, leading to a thickening of the vessel wall so that the elasticity of the vessels is reduced, and also narrowing of the vessels (arteriosclerosis). This causes reduced blood flow in the affected vessels and leads to circulatory disorders that exhibit symptoms such as chest pain or discomfort, heart attack, stroke, pain while walking caused by the blocked vessels, tiredness.
Explanation according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Chinese medicine calls hyperlipidemia Phlegm. The term Phlegm referred to by hyperlipidemia is a viscous, sedative pathological product that blocks Qi and Blood circulation.
An unhealthy diet is one of the causes: due to partial eclipse, arbitrarily eating fat and thick taste or addiction to alcohol, the Spleen and Stomach are damaged, failure of transform function of Spleen causes thick turbid Phlegm retention in the body.
Aged body weakness is also an important reason: Insufficient endowment or due to ageing, Kidney Qi is declining, Kidney Yang Deficiency can not agitate the Yang of the Five Internal Organs, Fire does not produce soil, can derive Phlegm and turbid fat, Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency can breed Internal Heat and Phlegm is brewed by burning Jin.
Possible syndromes causing these problems:
Phlegm Retention and Heat (seen in young people)
It is the most common pattern, symptom: overweight (obese).
Recommended formulas to use:
Qi and Blood Stagnation
High cholesterol and vascular sclerosis, chest oppression and fullness, dull or purple tongue colour, or with purple patches on the sides.
Recommended formulas to use:
Kidney Yang Deficiency and Phlegm Retention (seen in older patients)
High Cholesterol, weight gaining, tiredness, cold feeling, can be also seen in menopause.
Recommended formulas to use:
HYPOTENSION
Disease description:
Low blood pressure (hypotension) does not lead to serious vascular and organ damage such as a stroke or heart attack, in contrast to high blood pressure, it actually spares the vessels, the heart and the entire circulation.
The blood pressure should ideally be below 120/ 80 mmHg. If the systolic value (the top value) is below 110 (men) or 100 (women) and the diastolic value (bottom value) below 60, the World Health Organization (WHO) speaks of hypotension. Depending on the person, either feeling nothing, uncomfortable or quite ill, hypotension can lead to the following symptoms: dizziness, stargazing or fatigue, depression.
Explanation according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Chinese medicine believes that hypotension is caused by Heart and Spleen Qi and Blood Deficiency and YangDeficiency. Lack of Yang energy cause poor blood circulation. Therefore, the main treatment is to nourish Qiwarm and tonify the Yang, supplemented with Spleen.
Possible syndromes causing these problems:
Qi Deficiency
Deficiency of Qi prevents clear Yang from rising to the brain, leading to: decreased blood pressure, tiredness, postural dizziness, fatigue worse after eating, loose stools.
Recommended formulas to use:
Yang Deficiency
Yang Deficiency also means less clear Yang rising to the brain: low blood pressure, loose stools, low back pain, aversion to cold.
Recommended formulas to use:
HYPOTHYROIDISM
Typical symptoms:
constipation, depression, fatigue, hair loss, loss of energy, low blood pressure (hypotension), low libidoDisease description:
If the thyroid gland produces too few hormones, this is called hypothyroidism. Thyroid hormones are energy suppliers for many body cells, therefore a lack of these hormones slows down the metabolic processes in the body. Possible causes of hypothyroidism are Hashimoto thyroiditis (an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland), removal of the thyroid gland or radiotherapy, iodine deficiency (needed for the formation of thyroid hormones), medication or drugs. The symptoms are typically rather unspecific and can be more or less pronounced: lack of drive, sleep disturbances, hair loss, constipation, weight gain, tiredness, general physical exhaustion, muscle weakness, depressive mood.
Explanation according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine:
The main way for the development of hypothyroidism is Qi and Yang Deficiency of Spleen and Kidney, and the viscera function is weak. The Spleen is the foundation of Qi. If the Spleen’s Qi is insufficient, the source of Qi is lacking, causing the Five Organs to lose their Nourishment and become weak. When Kidney Qi and Yang decay, there is Waterflooding, the Water flows upward to the Heart and causes Heart Yang Deficiency Syndrome. If the cause of the problem lasts for a long time, the Qi and Blood, Yin and Yang all become deficient.
Possible syndromes causing these problems:
Yang Deficiency
Fatigue, lethargy, cold intolerance, slow bowel movement, pallor, puffy face, water retention, abdominal distension, weight gain, poor appetite, poor memory, dry skin, low libido.
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