Post Date December, 02 2023
After being brainwashed by the overwhelming drugs, advertisements and TV programs for tonifying the kidney and fortifying the yang, many male friends began to take crazy tonic measures. In order to achieve some unrealistic goals, they did not understand their own physique and took inappropriate means of fortifying the yang. These are all manifestations of walking into the misunderstanding of tonifying the kidney and fortifying the yang. Next, we will summarize the three misunderstandings of male tonifying the kidney and fortifying the yang, Men must avoid it!
Myth 1: "tonifying the kidney" is to strengthen the yang
Middle-aged men mistook kidney tonic for "aphrodisiac" and thought it would be effective once taken. Tang Shuifu explained that "deficiency" is mainly the result of low function and lack of nutrition. Kidney-deficiency can show kidney related dysfunction. For example, the brain responds slowly, does not grow, has low sexual function, is prone to fracture, urinates at night, cannot hold urine, and has weak waist and legs. These are also common conditions in middle-aged people, but they cannot be generalized. The above symptoms must be caused by kidney deficiency.
Therefore, many middle-aged people came to the doctor for help on how to solve the problem of low sexual function, and strongly suggested that they needed to tonify the kidney, and asked whether they should take such aphrodisiacs as hippocampus, tiger whip, deer whip, and epimedium. In fact, when we discuss their condition carefully, most of them are caused by psychological stress and overwork. Therefore, the doctor in charge will not prescribe kidney tonic drugs to such a person.
Myth 2: Take tonic drugs indiscriminately regardless of yin and yang
The concept of kidney in traditional Chinese medicine is mainly from the perspective of function, covering some physiological functions of the human body's reproductive, urinary, nervous, endocrine, respiratory, bone and other tissues and organs. The kidney of traditional Chinese medicine is difficult to understand from the perspective of western medicine. The concept of kidney of western medicine is only from the perspective of anatomy.
(Intern editor: Lin Yanjuan)
