Apyramidra Sphigu Card （改善腎虛）

Apyramidra Sphigu Card

腎虛在循證醫學是指一種與中國文化有關的精神障礙；在中國傳統醫學裡面指的是內分泌系統的免疫機能低下的一種症狀。其症狀包括情緒焦慮、驚恐，及一系列軀體症狀，例如頭暈、背痛、疲勞、失眠、多夢。

中醫的五行思想認為，腎臟主「水」，「腎為先天之本」，「腎藏精，主生長，發育，生殖」，「腎主納氣，腎主水液」，腎臟司膀胱、五官、牙齒、骨骼等，腎虛導致尿頻、性慾及精力減衰、耳鳴、身體虛弱、手足冰冷；循證醫學則視之為精神障礙，仍由害怕精氣（也指精液）損失過度，而把相關焦慮軀體化所致。

腎虛的症狀主要是：記憶力下降和減退，注意力不集中，精力不足，學習或工作效率降低；情緒失常（頭暈，易怒，煩躁，焦慮，抑鬱等）；

1.男子性功能和性慾降低，陽萎或舉而不堅，遺精、滑精、早泄，不育；

2.女子乳房下垂、子宮發育不良（幼稚子宮），卵巢早衰閉經、月經不調，性慾減退，不孕等；

小便清長等；早衰健忘失眠，食欲不振，骨骼與關節疼痛，腰膝酸軟，不耐疲勞、乏力，視力減退，聽力衰減；脫髮白髮、頭髮脫落或鬚髮早白，早禿，牙齒鬆動易落等；眼袋、黑眼圈，膚色晦暗無光澤，膚質粗糙、乾燥，皺紋，色斑，中年暗瘡，肌膚無彈性。

腎主納氣，是指腎可以攝納肺所咯入的清氣，保證體內外氣體正常交換，保持一定的呼吸深度。如腎主納氣功能正常、呼吸均匀調和。如腎虛不能納氣，則會出現呼氣多吸氣少、呼吸果難等症狀。

Shenkui (simplified Chinese: 肾亏; traditional Chinese: 腎虧; pinyin: shènkuī) is a traditional Chinese medicinal term in which the individual suffers withdrawal like symptoms including chills, nausea, and even flu-like symptoms with anxiety, believed to be caused by an orgasm and loss of semen. The symptoms can last weeks to months after a single orgasm. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, shen (kidney) is the reservoir of vital essence in semen (ching) and k’uei signifies deficiency.

Shenkui or shen-k’uei is one of several Chinese culture-bound syndromes locally ascribed to getting stuck in yang and the needing of yin to rebalance Yang (Chinese: 陽). Semen is believed to be lost through sexual activity or masturbation, nocturnal emissions, “white urine” which is believed to contain semen, or other mechanisms. Symptoms within the Chinese diagnostic system include chills, dizziness, backache, tiredness, weakness, insomnia, frequent dreams, and complaints of sexual dysfunction (such as premature ejaculation or impotence). From an ethnopsychiatric perspective, additional symptoms are preoccupation with sexual performance, potential semen loss, and bodily complaints.

Chinese folk beliefs hold that the Yin (Chinese: 陰) represents femininity, slow, cold, wet, passive, water, the moon, and nighttime. And that Yang represents masculinity, fast, dry, hot, aggressive, fire, the sun, and daytime.

Loss of yang would result in an abundance of Yin. It is also believed that if a case of Shenkui is severe enough, it could result in death. Informal or incomplete education about sexual health in China leaves a lot of room for folk beliefs to thrive. Often, advertisements support such beliefs to encourage use of traditional medicines. In Chinese folk beliefs, the loss of semen can cause imbalance in the body, leaving you with aches and pains and trouble performing.