Kidney Key Notes

Kidney yang deficiency

Lower backache, dizziness, tinnitus, cold and weak knees, sensation of cold in the lower back, feeling cold, weak legs, bright-white complexion, tiredness, lassitude, abundant clear urination, urination at night, apathy, oedema of the legs, infertility in women, loose stools, depression, impotence, premature ejaculation, low sperm count, decreased libido

Tongue: Pale and wet.

Pulse: Deep-Weak.

Kidney yin deficiency

Dizziness, tinnitus, vertigo, poor memory, hardness of hearing, night-sweating, dry mouth and throat at night, lower backache, ache in bones, nocturnal emissions, constipation, dark scanty urine, infertility, premature ejaculation, tiredness, lassitude, depression, slight anxiety

Tongue: normal-coloured without coating.

Pulse: Floating-Empty.

Kidney Qi not firm

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, tiredness, feeling cold, cold limbs, in women prolapse of uterus, chronic white vaginal discharge, a dragging-down feeling in the lower abdomen, recurrent miscarriage

Tongue: Pale.

Pulse: Deep-Weak, especially in the Rear positions.

Kidney failing to grasp/recieve Qi

Shortness of breath on exertion, rapid and weak breathing, difficulty in inhaling, chronic cough and/or asthma, spontaneous sweating, cold limbs, cold limbs after sweating, swelling of the face, thin body, mental listlessness, clear urination during asthma attack, lower backache, dizziness, tinnitus

Tongue: Pale.

Pulse: Deep-Weak-Tight.

Kidney essence deficiency

In children: poor bone development, late closure of fontanelle, deafness, mental dullness or retardation

In adults: softening of bones, weakness of knees and legs, poor memory, loose teeth, falling hair or premature greying of hair, weakness of sexual activity, lower backache, infertility, sterility, primary amenorrhoea, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, blurred vision, absent-mindedness, decreased mental sharpness

Tongue: without coating if this pattern occurs against a background of Kidney-Yin deficiency; Pale if against a background of Kidney-Yang deficiency.

Pulse: Floating-Empty or Leather.

kidney yang deficiency water overflowing

Oedema, especially of the legs and ankles, cold feeling in legs and back, fullness and distension of abdomen, soreness of lower back, feeling cold, scanty clear urination.

Heart: the above symptoms plus palpitations, breathlessness, cold hands.

Lungs: the above symptoms plus thin watery frothy sputum, cough, asthma and breathlessness on exertion Tongue: Pale, Swollen and wet with a white coating.

Pulse: Deep-Weak-Slow.

Kidney yin deficiency with empty heat blazing

Malar flush, mental restlessness, insomnia, night sweating, low-grade fever, afternoon fever, five-palm heat, feeling of heat in the afternoon and/or evening, scanty dark urine, blood in the urine, dry throat especially at night, thirst with desire to drink in small sips, dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, lower backache, nocturnal emissions with dreams, excessive sexual desire, dry stools

Tongue: Red, cracked with a red tip, without coating.

Pulse: Floating-Empty and Rapid.

Kidney and liver yin deficiency

Dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, lower backache, dull occipital or vertical headache, insomnia, numbness or tingling of 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.

Pulse: Floating-Empty.

Kidney and heart not in harmony

Palpitations, mental restlessness, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, anxiety, poor memory, dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, lower backache, nocturnal emissions with dreams, a feeling of heat in the evening, dry throat at night, thirst with desire to drink in small sips, night sweating, five-palm heat, scanty dark urine, dry stools

Tongue: Red with redder tip without coating, midline Heart crack.

Pulse: Floating-Empty and Rapid or Deep-Weak on both Rear positions and relatively Overflowing on both Front positions.

Kidney and Lung yin deficiency

Dry cough which is worse in the evening, dry throat and mouth, thin body, breathlessness on exertion, lower backache, night sweating, dizziness, tinnitus, hardness of hearing, scanty urination

Tongue: normal-coloured without coating or with rootless coating.

Pulse: Floating-Empty.

Kidney and spleen yang deficiency

Lower backache, cold and weak knees, sensation of cold in the back, feeling cold, weak legs, bright-white complexion, impotence, premature ejaculation, low sperm count, cold and thin sperm, decreased libido, tiredness, lassitude, abundant clear urination, scanty clear urination, urination at night, apathy, oedema of the legs, infertility in women, loose stools, depression, poor appetite, slight abdominal distension, desire to lie down, early morning diarrhoea, chronic diarrhoea

Tongue: Pale and wet.

Pulse: Deep-Weak.