Constitutional characteristics.. Emaciation or relatively fat physique, pale complexion, low and timid voice, frequent spontaneous sweating worsened by moving, tiredness, amnesia, pale tongue with whitish fur, feeble and weak pulse.
5.1.3.1 Regulating the diet
The people with qi deficiency may regularly eat round-grained nonglutinous rice, polished glutinous rice, wheat, millet, glutinous millet, barley, Chinese yam, polished long-grained nonglutinous rice, naked oats, potato, jujube, carrot, Xianggu mushroom, bean curb, chicken, goose meat, hare meat, quail, beef, dogmeat, black carp and silver carp. In the case of severe qi deficiency, the prescription of dietary therapy "Renshen Lianrou Soup" (Soup of Ginseng and Lotus Seed) should be selected for tonification.
5.1.3.2 Life cultivation with drugs
It is advisable to take Jinkui Shuyu Pill regularly. In the case of qi deficiency of the spleen, Sijunzi Decoction (Decoction of Four Noble Ingredients) or Shenling Baizhu Powder (Powder of Ginseng, Poria and Bighead Atractylodes) is advisable; in the case of qi deficiency of the lung, Lung-Tonifying Decoction is advisable; in the case of qi deficiency of the kidney, more Shenqi Bolus (Bolus for Strengthening the Kidney Qi) should be taken.
