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| Deficiency Symptoms |
| Most usually the result of adrenalin ("flight-or-fight") stress, symptoms include frequent, dilute and pale urination (often at night), flushing, thirst and the tendency to low blood pressure. Orthostatic hypotension is commonwhen standing up the blood stays somewhere around the solar plexus, gradually surging up to the brain. If the kidneys and arteries fail to compensate fast enough, the kidney-deficient person compensates by sitting down dizzily or, if this fails, by fainting. |
| There is a tendency to react poorly to sudden changes in temperature and humidity, with frequent short-term water retention and headaches. Common stresses to fluid and osmosis homeostasis, such as PMS, changes in barometric pressure, high altitudes, the last trimester of pregnancy, steroid drugs and high salt intake produce exaggerated symptoms in the kidney-deficient person. |
| The urine more easily becomes neutral or alkaline, easily shifting from its normal acidity with even moderate alterations in diet. |
| Kidney Deficiency Tonics |
| These either strengthen or stimulate kidney nephrons, improve renal blood supply that is diminished in adrenalin stress and improve hormonal stimulation. |
| Dong quai (cured Angelica sinensis) |
| Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) |
| Horsetail (Equisetum arvense and others) |
| Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra and others) |
| Ginseng (all: Panax, Eleutherococcus, etc.) |
| Huckleberry or blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) |
| With kidney deficiency and increased volume of urine, |
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