Symptoms
- Dizziness
- Tinnitus
- Poor memory
- Difficulty in comprehension
- Tiredness
- Depression, anxiety
- Wasting and thinning
- Weakness and pain in the lower back and knees
- Heel pain
- Premature ejaculation, impotence
- Profuse menstruation or amenorrhoea
- Infertility
- Dark and scanty urine
- Dry stools or constipation
- Tongue without coating, may be red (heat) and fissured in more severe cases
- Fine and empty pulse (rapid if there is empty-heat)
If there is empty-heat
- Night sweating
- Heat in the five palms (palms of the hands, soles of the feet and sternum)
- Sensation of afternoon heat
- Red cheeks
- Hot flushes of menopause
- Thirst with a desire to drink in small sips
- Dryness of the mouth and throat at night
Causes
- Constitution
- The seven emotions
- Chronic illness
- Inadequate diet: excess of yang, large quantities, pungent.
- Excessive sexual activity
- Aging
- Febrile disease
Treatment
Nourish Yin and tonify Kidneys