Professor Xiao Chengzong attaches great importance to the role of the kidney in women’s physiology and pathology. In clinical practice

she differentiates the changes of kidney Qi

kidney Yin and kidney Yang

and based on this

she treats gynecological diseases and creates five methods to treat the kidney. It includes the methods of nourishing the kidney

replenishing the kidney

tonifying the kidney

warming the kidney and consolidating the kidney. The fundamental goal is to achieve a balance between kidney Yin and Yang. The kidney-nourishing method tends to enrich more the kidney

but also takes into consideration the care of the heart and liver; the method of replenishing the kidney tends to tonify both the kidney Yin and Yang; the method of tonifying the kidney tends to supplement kidney Qi to promote the filling of kidney Qi; the method of warming the kidney tends to warm and tonify kidney Yang

but also takes spleen Yang into consideration; the kidney-strengthening method tends to strengthen more the kidney to maintain the stability of the fetus. Professor Xiao’s experience in treating gynecological diseases by using the five methods of treating the kidney is introduced from the content and clinical application.