Winter: The Season of the Kidneys!
One of Chinese Medicine’s most important practices are to recognize and make proper treatment adjustments based on each of the different Five Organ Systems and its corresponding seasonal relationship!
For Winter, the corresponding organ is the Kidneys!
Few things can ever begin to compete in importance when it comes to your personal level of health, as per the famous saying of a local Chinese Herbal Master, “Health is Wealth”!
Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine Methodologies, Winter is the time to strengthen and support your Kidney Organ System.
Chinese Medicines’ view of your five internal organ systems states that you do not need a Chinese Medicine Pattern imbalance, in reference to your Kidney Organ System [or any organ system for that matter], before nurturing and tonifying them.
It is always a good thing to nurture and fortify your health! The more you elevate it, the harder it is for the seed of disease to grow and take root!
Just as it is generally recommended to eat a healthy, well thought out and balanced diet, coupled with external & internal exercising and proper sleep time, we believe it is just as important to take steps to continually support all of your vital organ systems. This can be accomplished with Chinese Herbal Formulas.
Chinese Medicine has established that your Kidney Organ System is the root, affecting the basal life forces of your internal bodily functions.
In particular, your Kidney Organ System provides the foundation for the Yin and Yang forces and processes of your body.
Yin, as we will use the term here, can literally reflect your bodily fluid balance. Every organ has a Yin or fluid source that is essential to its’ proper function. Specific Organ Systems, such as with your Liver or Heart, require that your Kidney Yin is strong, abundant and stable for their own proper health functions.
Yang, very simply put, is your metabolism which is responsible for warming your vessels and joints and the proper distribution and transformation of your internal water levels and specific fluids throughout your body. Just as the Yin aspect of your body is supported by your Kidney Yin, each of your Organ Systems also has a Yang aspect as well.
This Yang aspect is highly supported by the foundation of your Kidney Yang health. This is known as your Basal Life Fire or Life Gate. In Chinese, this is named the Ming Men.
Interestingly enough, as many of you are especially concerned about drinking an appropriate daily amount of water for proper hydration [the amount is up for debate], in Traditional Chinese Medicine, the primary way to deal with hydration is making sure you that your body is processing water correctly.
This is a new concept for most of you. How exactly can you improve upon the way your body breaks down and re-distributes fluids? How important is a healthy functioning metabolic fluid system?
It is essential!
To expand upon this thought, let us liken your body to an automobile engine. What if you put the most expensive gasoline into a broken down, four-cylinder sedan? That fuel will most likely help improve the cars performance a little.
Yet, in the end, the car is an old, broken down and out of tune machine. Giving the car high octane fuel is an inefficient and ineffective way to improve the car’s fuel performance.
By replacing the old, nonfunctional engine components and giving the car a much needed tune up and oil change would be the right line of thinking. This, in many ways, is parallel to the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach of health and longevity.
With this thinking in mind, we encourage you to do something especially positive and beneficial, especially during the winter season, by incorporating Kidney Organ System Tonics into your health program.
Heaven and Earth CMHC have very special and affordable Chinese Herbal Formulas that are sure to benefit you and your loved ones. As you have read above, your Kidney Organ System is extremely important for water metabolism and your complete internal organ system health. To learn more about your Kidney Organ System, please visit our Body Guide page where you will find a link to the Kidney Organ System.
Please take the time to consider the products listed below that support your Kidney Organ System.
Super Powerful & Essential Kidney Tonics
Our proprietary Heaven and Earth CMHC Water of Life Kidney Yin Chinese Herbal Formula has been designed by our highly knowledgeable and experienced Chinese Herbalists for the requirements of the modern person. This formulation is based on the Liu Wei Di Huang Tang [Six Flavors Combination]. They have added additional, special Chinese Herbs to expand its Yin-Nourishing, Liver Cooling, Blood & Chi Strengthening functions.
These additional Chinese Herbs assists your Liver and Heart Organ Systems in tonifying your Chi [which will help support your daily energy), making it easier to circulate and digest the formula. Keep in mind this is a powdered formula, made from whole, fresh and powerful Chinese Herbs, to be made into a tea or take as a convenient capsule.
Our proprietary Heaven and Earth CMHC Fire Of Life Kidney Yang Chinese Herbal Formula is similar to the Plum Flower Brand Golden Book Teapills with appropriate changes made by our highly knowledgeable and experienced Chinese Herbalists for the requirements of the modern person. It is an extremely popular Chinese Herbal Formula, helping transform the lives of many people. Rou Gui [Cinnamon Bark] is still in the formulation with the added famous Yin Yang Huo (horny goat weed) and Tu Su Zi (cusica seed).
If you are suffering from daily disharmonies such as:
- lethargy
- high blood pressure
- water retention
- low libido
- low appetite
- watery stool
- and having a persistent feeling of coldness from your core
then it would be a great idea to look at this Chinese Herbal Formula to help promote your Kidney Yang strength. Keep in mind this is a powdered formula, made from whole, fresh and powerful Chinese Herbs, to be made into a tea or take as a convenient capsule.
Kidney Yin Functions, Disharmonies & More Chinese Herbal Formulas
In the first part of this article we wrote about the important roles that your Kidney Yin and Kidney Yang play in maintaining your health, and the essential Chinese Herbal Formulas that tonify these important processes.
We would now like to now go a little deeper by introducing the importance of what happens to your body when your Kidney Yin & Kidney Yang become Deficient based on Traditional Chinese Medicine and how our H&E CMHC Chinese Herbal Formulas can help resolve such issues. These formulas can help to assist your Kidney Organ System, as well as other affected organ systems.
Let’s bring back a quote from one of our newsletter: “Yin, as we will use the term here, can literally reflect your bodily fluid balance.”
With Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is extremely important that your internal organ systems, much like your skin and eyes, are hydrated, creating the proper levels of lubrication. Without proper hydration, based on healthy organ function, your organs can literally become dry, irritated and can eventually generate improper heat levels, which then continues the dehydration and irritation cycle affecting other parts of your body [i.e., dry eyes or skin].
“Yin, as we will use the term here, can literally reflect your bodily fluid balance.”
After an in-depth consultations with many of our clients, we have determined many of them to have the Chinese Medicine Pattern of Kidney Yin Deficiency that can appear to be moderate to severe. Many times they make the proclamation that they will “Drink more water!”
Not a lack of fluids, problem.
With Traditional Chinese Medicine, the term of deficiency in fluids or fluid damage does not necessarily mean that consuming more fluids would or could rectify the problem.
If your body is not processing fluids correctly, then it does not matter how much water you consume.
In life, there are a few ways to that you can tonify your Yin within your body.
Chinese Herbal Formulas are amongst the most effective means to do so.
Our famous Heaven and Earth CMHC Water of Life Kidney Yin Chinese Herbal Formula is used for this very purpose.
The Yin House of Cards
What often happens with moderate to severe Yin Depletion is that your body overheats internally, presenting with daily disharmonies such as:
- vaginal dryness
- heat (literally)
- redness
- insomnia
- bleeding gums
- irritation
- chronic knee problems
- vascular disease
- heart problems…
This Yin Deficiency can accelerate your aging process immensely. When an Organ System overheats, it will have a very specific group of daily disharmonies directly related to its specific responsibilities. This in turn will then create distinct Chinese Medicine Patterns that can be treated with many of our H&E CMHC Chinese Herbal Formula tonics.
If you have any questions about any of our H&E CMHC Formulas, please contact us directly for help.
We would like to feature a very unique Chinese Medicine Pattern based on what may happen when Kidney Yin Deficiency occurs. This is Liver Yin & Blood Deficiency due to Kidney Yin Deficiency causing: Liver Heat, Liver Yang Rising and Deficiency Fire. This may sound confusing, but please read on for an explanation of this cascading event.
When your Kidney Organ System becomes deficient, this will often affect your reserve of Liver Yin. Your Liver Organ System receives support from your Kidney Yin so…when your Kidney Yin becomes deficient, it affects your Liver Organ System. This is much like how the sinking foundation of a house may also affect the walls and ceiling causing them to weaken, buckle and collapse. This in return will cause a plethora of problems.
If this problem is not resolved over time, your Liver Organ System can become quite deficient, causing your Liver Blood to also weaken. This will then add to another layer of problems reflected by disharmonies such as:
- weak eyes
- irregular menstrual periods
- anemia
- allergies
- low immune
- stiffness of joints
- elimination problems
- dizziness
- spasms
- memory problems
- nervous system problems
- cold limbs
- night blindness
- weak nails
- lusterless hair
- hair loss
- pale complexion…
As you can see, the list of daily disharmonies is long with severe consequences.
To further help define this complex Chinese Medicine Pattern of Liver Yin and Blood Deficiency, let’s go over how a person may directly experience this pattern in terms of specific indications. Keep in mind, daily disharmonies based on Kidney Yin Deficiency may be experienced in many ways, but the overall pattern can be identified by a skilled practitioner of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine through specific key symptoms.
When your Liver Yin & Blood are weakened, your Liver Yang [which assists in holding up your organs & distributing fluids to your Lung Organ System begins to ascend, further upward and out of its boundaries, becoming out of control. This is because there is no Yin to anchor or root the Yang. This is a classic example of how Yin and Yang work to balance each other. This will often present with daily disharmonies such as:
- headaches
- blurred vision
- red eyes
- red face
- ringing in the ears
- dizziness
- visual floaters
Biomedical diseases such as: migraines, conjunctivitis and Rosacea could also apply here.
Another great attribute about Chinese Herbal Formulas, as well as being designed for correcting specific Chinese Medicine Patterns, is that they also function to support your complete, overall psycho-physiological systems. Meaning that they will also:
- nourish your skin
- hair and nails
- regultae proper appitite & elimination
- promote healthy auditory function
- decrease excessive thirst
- balance emotions
- brighten your eyes
- increase energy levels
- promote deep and healthy sleep
all of which reflect generally robust health and a good life.
One of the main reasons why Chinese Herbal Medicine is such a wonderful path to choose in resolving health imbalances is because of its unique ability to understand the many different layers upon layers of health problems manifesting all at once. These layers of disharmonies usually compile over time, especially when left un-checked.
An example of multiple layers would be skin problems at a young age never resolving, then digestion/respiratory problems and low immune problems in the teens, and then chronic low energy leading to emotional stress, insomnia and high anxiety and chronic sinus issues while always fighting off a cold as a young adult.
As you can see, the complexity of compiling daily disharmonies, creating multiple Chinese Medicine Patterns, can get quite complicated to understand, and moreover to treat. This is when consulting with an experienced and knowledgeable Chinese Medicine Herbalist becomes invaluable. They can discern your personal Chinese Medicine Patterns and then create a customized, VIP Program Chinese Herbal Formula treatment strategy just for you.
The process of creating a custom Chinese Herbal Formula depends on the severity and complexity of the Chinese Medicine Patterns involved. It is a very intensive process for the Chinese Medicine Herbalist. The unique Traditional Chinese Medicine view of all of your Five Organ Systems and how they interact must be understood on a deep and multi-dimensional level.
Proper time must be allotted for the experienced, Chinese Medicine Herbalist to assess where your Five Organ Systems are at in relation to balance and harmony. From there a customized Chinese Herbal Formula treatment regimen can be completed. To learn more about our consultations, please contact Heaven and Earth Chinese Medicine Healing Center.
