Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

How to recognize Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

The signs that point most strongly to this pattern:

1. Dry, tired, blurry eyes, floaters
2. Sore low back and weak knees
3. Dizziness and ringing in the ears
4. Dry mouth and throat at night
5. Irritable in a dry, hot way, worse late in the day

Also common

• Night sweats and warm palms
• Brittle nails, dry hair
• Numb or crampy limbs
• Insomnia with dreams
• Scanty or late periods
• Headache behind the eyes
• Thin build

Tongue

Red with little coat, sides may be redder.

Pulse

Thin, rapid, and slightly wiry.

Formulas for Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

Herbs that matter most for Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

• Shu Di Huang Prepared Rehmannia Root Refills the Kidney well.
• Gou Qi Zi Chinese Wolfberry Fruit Goji feeds Liver and Kidney and brightens the eyes.
• Ju Hua Chrysanthemum Flower Chrysanthemum clears the Liver and eyes.
• Nu Zhen Zi Glossy Privet Fruit Privet fruit nourishes Liver and Kidney yin.
• Han Lian Cao Eclipta Eclipta cools and nourishes, and darkens grey hair.
• Bai Shao White Peony Root White peony nourishes Liver blood and yin and softens the temper.
• Sang Shen Mulberry Fruit Mulberry fruit for dizziness, dry eyes, and dry stools.

How Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency differs from its look-alikes

• Kidney Yin Deficiency Plain Kidney yin deficiency lacks the eye, nail, tendon, and temper signs. Once the Liver joins in, the eyes and mood show it.
• Liver Yang Rising When Liver yin is too low to hold the yang down, the picture turns loud: pounding headache, red face, high blood pressure, rage. That is Liver yang rising on a yin-deficient base and needs the anchoring formulas.
• Liver Blood Deficiency Liver blood deficiency is pale: pale face, pale nails, dizziness on standing, light periods, a pale tongue. Yin deficiency is red, dry, and warm.

What drains into Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

• Overwork and late nights over years
• Long emotional strain that burns Liver yin
• Blood loss or a long illness
• Aging, especially around menopause
• Alcohol and spicy heating food
• Screens late at night, which drain the eyes and the Liver

Food and habits that help Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency

• Screens off an hour before bed, and bed by eleven. The Liver stores blood at night and the eyes are paid from it.
• Goji, black sesame, mulberries, dark leafy greens, eggs, and small portions of liver.
• Close your eyes for one minute every hour of screen work.
• Alcohol and spicy food heat a Liver that is already dry.
• Gentle stretching for the tendons. Yin deficiency does not want hard sweaty training.

What should change as Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency improves

• Dry eyes and the afternoon temper ease within a month.
• Night dry mouth and the sore back follow.
• Floaters and blur are slow and may only partly change.
• Plan on a three month course and reassess the tongue.

Conditions where Liver and Kidney Yin Deficiency shows up