Kidney deficiency refers to the deficiency of kidney essence or kidney yin and yang, which can be broadly categorized into four types according to the symptoms: deficiency of kidney essence, deficiency of kidney qi, deficiency of kidney yang and deficiency of kidney yin. The specific use of medication to regulate need to be identified by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. In terms of diet, you can consume foods that can tonify the kidneys and benefit the vital energy.

Kidney yin deficiency is mostly due to prolonged illness injury to the yin, or warm and hot disease, fluid loss, or over-served warm and dry gold stone medicine, depletion of yin, or early marriage and childbearing, room, resulting in kidney yin insufficiency. Due to the deficiency of kidney water, and then the phase fire, so the common pathology of false fire inflammation; yin deficiency is false, or see the evidence of this deficiency. The disease is located in the kidney, often involving the lungs, heart, liver and other organs; treatment is to nourish yin and tonify the kidney.