Highlights of this issue

◎  More and more people are experiencing the advantages of solving urinary problems by “clearing stagnation”

◎  What are the important things to pay attention to while “clearing stagnation treatment”

Combining practice and theory, modern Chinese medicine has discovered that stasis is the key cause of most urinary problems.

When stasis occurs in the prostate[1], kidneys[2], bladder, urethra and other organs and tissues of the urogenital system, it may cause a series of urination symptoms.

This article focuses on the urinary problems caused by stagnation in the detrusor and sphincter muscles of the urinary system, such as the bladder and urethra: When microcirculation disorders occur in these parts, blood supply to the corresponding muscles is blocked, and nutrition and oxygen supply are insufficient. Metabolites accumulate to form stagnation, which causes muscle relaxation or edema and impaired function. These blocked toxins stimulate and compress nerves, leading to muscle dysfunction, resulting in severe symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, incomplete urination, urine leakage, and frequent urination at night.

Therefore, the key to solving this type of urinary problem is to “clear the stagnation”. Many patients have solved the various problems caused by urinary problems by clearing the stagnation[3]. Continuous clearing of stagnation can also help continuously improve the function and immunity of organs and the whole body, keep the body unobstructed, and prevent the recurrence of urinary problems.

However, while focusing on the core of “clearing stagnation”, we should also take into account dispersing nodules, replenishing the body, adhering to good living habits, and ensuring the standardization of the treatment for clearing stagnation (sufficient and continuous). Only by combining these factors can a systematic program for clearing stagnation be formed.

Urinary problems during “clearing stasis treatment”

Important Notes

In addition to unhealthy lifestyles, normal metabolism and aging processes will also cause stagnation. Therefore, patients need to clear and prevent stagnation through treatments that clear stagnation. They should also strictly follow the following precautions to reduce stagnation caused by daily habits and irregular treatments.

After all, if you clear stagnation while inducing new stagnation, the treatment effect will definitely be greatly affected or even stagnant. At the same time, it is also necessary to distinguish some urinary problems that are not caused by stagnation.

1、Pay attention to light diet and drink plenty of water

Raw, cold, greasy, and spicy foods will directly irritate the urethra and affect the health of the entire urinary system. Stimulating diets will also aggravate various urinary symptoms by exacerbating congestion. Therefore, while clearing the congestion, patients should pay attention to maintaining a light and nutritionally balanced diet, and especially avoid the intake of irritating foods/drinks such as chili peppers, garlic, and alcohol. These foods, especially alcohol, are particularly effective in aggravating congestion.

In addition, in the absence of specific liver, kidney or heart diseases, patients can also drink more water to help speed up the body’s metabolism, increase urine volume, reduce urine concentration, relieve urinary system irritation symptoms, and facilitate the excretion of metabolic waste and inflammatory substances.

2、Be careful to avoid microbial infection

Microbial infection will increase the stimulation to the urinary system; stagnation will also be aggravated by infection, and various urinary symptoms will become more severe. Therefore, patients should pay attention to the following matters to prevent infection:

① Rinse the perineum and anus with clean water every day, and change underwear every day;

② Wash the perineum before and after sexual intercourse, and use condoms during sexual intercourse;

③ Do not abuse private washes, as such cleaning products may destroy the balance of private flora and make infection more likely to occur.

3、Be careful to avoid physical pressure in daily life

Compression can cause poor local blood flow, hinder metabolism, and lead to worsening congestion, so patients should try to avoid the following things that compress the urinary system organs:

① Sitting for a long time;

② Cycling frequently;

③ Wearing overly tight clothes and pants;

④ Improper abdominal massage.

4、Pay attention to exclude factors that are not caused by stasis

Some urinary discomfort symptoms, if not gradually relieved with the progress of stasis-clearing treatment, may be caused by the following non-stasis factors:

5. Pay attention to standardized treatment

◎ Treatment must be sufficient

If a certain treatment intensity is not reached and the strength of clearing stagnation is not enough, it will be difficult to effectively clear the blocked area. Therefore, the effect of arbitrarily reducing the dosage will be weakened, or even difficult to take effect.

◎ Treatment must be continuous

Stagnation will continue to occur during normal metabolism and aging. Continuous treatment can ensure that “clearing stagnation > occurrence of stagnation”, so that the treatment effect is continuously superimposed. Intermittent treatment will only lead to the effect of “wasting all previous efforts and making a comeback”. The treatment of chronic diseases requires a process. There are roughly three stages of stagnation treatment for urinary problems:

【Stage 1】

Clear stagnation and eliminate most symptoms

The effect of clearing stagnation in this stage is mainly reflected in clearing metabolites, secretions and other toxins that constitute stagnation in organ tissues, improving microcirculation/microenvironment, thereby eliminating most of the discomfort symptoms caused by stagnation, such as frequent urination, urgency, and difficulty urinating, including pain.

【Stage 2】

Continuously clear stasis and restore body functions

The stasis-clearing effect of this stage is mainly reflected in further optimizing the internal environment, improving the body’s self-healing ability, restoring the body’s functions, and improving systemic chronic inflammation; if there are a few mild symptoms, this stage of treatment will stabilize and eliminate them.

【Stage 3】

Prevent stasis and maintain a healthy state of unobstructed vitality

The stasis-clearing effect of this stage is mainly reflected in preventing the occurrence of new stasis, improving the body’s circulation and metabolic capacity, and strengthening the immune system, thereby preventing the occurrence of diseases and keeping the body in a healthy state of unobstructed and energetic.

The main aspects of improvement in each stage are different. Especially after the second stage, the improvement of the body by removing stasis is often difficult for patients to notice, but it is still very important. Because only by removing stasis and continuously improving the body’s functions and immunity can the effect of “no recurrence and keeping the body healthy and energetic” be achieved, so do not stop when you see improvement (stop treatment as soon as the symptoms disappear).

In addition, patients need to understand 2 treatment features so that they do not need to feel worried, discouraged or even give up treatment when the following situations occur:

◎ Symptoms fluctuate

In the early stages of treatment, if the patient does not pay attention to maintaining good living habits (such as staying up late, indulgent sex, stimulating diet, etc.), symptoms may occasionally and slightly fluctuate. At this time, the patient only needs to avoid such habits in the future and continue to clear the stasis, and the symptoms will not reappear easily.

◎ Improvement trend

On the one hand, due to differences in illness, constitution, living habits, etc., some patients’ symptoms may improve quickly and some slowly during treatment (generally, this difference will not be obvious); and different symptoms may improve The speed may also vary, but it does not affect the overall improvement trend, and patients do not need to worry about this.

6、Pay attention to increasing therapeutic targets

As mentioned in the fourth note of this article, if the patient has diseases caused by both stasis and non-stasis factors, both of which cause some urination symptoms, the patient needs to add corresponding treatment targets while clearing the stasis. For example, some patients have microbial infections on the basis of urinary stasis, so antibiotics should be used reasonably while clearing the stasis.

In order to make it easier to remember and for patients to remind themselves at any time, Dianhetang has summarized the above precautions into two aspects: [Daily] and [Treatment]. You can long press to save the picture below:

owledge Development] How does prostate congestion cause varius urinary symptoms?uxed urine, semen, secretions and toxins accumulate in the prostate gland ducts and alveoli, causing congestion, which will squeeze the urethra and cause problems such as difficulty urinating and incomplete urination. When the congestion presses on the bladder, it will also reduce the bladder capacity and repeatedly stimulate the bladder, leading to urination symptoms such as frequent urination.

[2] How does kidney stasis cause various urinary symptoms?

The formation process of kidney stones is that certain factors (such as metabolic abnormalities, obstruction, infection, foreign bodies, drugs, etc.) cause the concentration of some components in urine (such as calcium, oxalic acid, uric acid and cystine, etc.) to increase or the solubility to decrease, resulting in supersaturation and precipitation of crystals. These crystals stagnate and accumulate in the kidneys, eventually forming kidney stones. Kidney stones fall from the kidneys to the ureters and get stuck in narrow places, forming ureteral stones, causing symptoms of soreness and discomfort in the waist and intermittent cramps in the back. Some patients show symptoms such as hematuria, frequent urination, urgency, pain when urinating, nausea, vomiting and sudden anuria. Some patients also experience infection-related symptoms. Acute renal colic often makes patients extremely painful.

[3]How to “clear stagnation”?

In order to achieve thorough and comprehensive silt removal, we should combine dispersing knots and nourishing. Based on the wisdom of traditional medicine for more than 2,000 years and in accordance with the treatment concept of modern Chinese medicine, we can summarize several Chinese medicinal raw materials that are particularly outstanding in dispersing knots, promoting blood circulation, removing dampness, diuresis, clearing heat, and nourishing: bee pollen, dandelion, houttuynia, purslane, Poria, platycodon, and peach kernel. Among them, bee pollen is known as “all-round nutritious food”, and the following 6 common plant raw materials are all listed in Appendix 1 “List of Items that are Both Food and Medicine” in the “Notice on Further Standardizing the Management of Health Food Raw Materials” issued by the Ministry of Health. They are suitable for daily use. However, it is best for ordinary people not to prescribe medicines by themselves. It is difficult for ordinary people to grasp the ratio of medicinal flavors, have no in-depth understanding of pharmacology, and it is difficult to distinguish the quality of medicinal materials. Moreover, the effect of medicinal materials is not a simple superposition relationship. It is also difficult for ordinary people to know whether different raw materials will produce certain toxicity when combined together, so the formulation and use of prescriptions still need the help of professional forces.