The kidney qi is also know as the jing qi or essential qi. It is associated with our deepest energetic reserves, our main battery, and our genetic inheritance. Often, a simultaneous decline in kidney yin and yang may be described as a kidney qi deficiency. Typically a pattern with symptoms such as frequent urination, copious amounts of clear urine, incontinence, enuresis, seminal emission, abortion, or miscarriage with neither a tendency towards being too hot of too cold is representative a kidney deficiency.

FOODS to EAT: parsley, wheat berry, sweet rice, raspberry and blackberry leaves and foods related to kidney yin or yang deficiency as appropriate

FOODS TO AVOID: avoid cold, raw foods that weaken the spleen (see spleen qi and yang deficiency)