Men always feel the urge to urinate

Prostatitis is a very common men's disease with a high incidence rate and a long course of treatment. Prostatitis can cause many harms to men's physical health. For example, patients often experience symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and pain when urinating. In addition, it can also have certain adverse effects on men's sexual function and fertility. Therefore, when men feel the urge to urinate, they must go to the hospital in time to avoid delaying the treatment of the disease.

1. What causes prostatitis?

1. Prostate congestion: Congestion caused by various reasons, especially passive congestion, is an important pathogenic factor of prostatitis.

2. Urine irritation: Urine contains a variety of acidic and alkaline chemicals. When local neuroendocrine disorders cause excessive urethral pressure and damage to the opening of the prostate duct, uric acid and other irritating chemicals will reflux into the prostate and induce prostatitis.

3. Infection by pathogenic microorganisms: Various microorganisms such as bacteria, protozoa, viruses, etc. can become sources of infection that cause prostatitis.

4. Immune factors and allergies: Congenital or acquired immune deficiencies produce anti-prostate antibodies, leading to prostate tissue damage.

2. Treatment of prostatitis with traditional Chinese medicine

1. Damp-heat descending type: symptoms include difficult and painful urination, red and painful urination, lower abdominal cramps, distension and pain in the perineum, white turbid discharge from the urethra, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

The treatment should be to clear away heat and dampness, and the prescription is Ba Zheng San with modifications: 7 grams of Akebia, 10 grams of Plantago, 10 grams of Polygonum multiflorum, 10 grams of Dianthus superbus, 20 grams of Talcum, 10 grams of Gardenia, 6 grams of Rhubarb, and 5 grams of Licorice.

2. Spleen deficiency and dampness excess type: Symptoms include turbid urine, sallow complexion, drowsiness in limbs, loss of appetite, pale tongue with white coating, and weak pulse.

The treatment should be to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. The prescription is Shenling Baizhu San with modifications: 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 15 grams of stir-fried Atractylodes macrocephala, 24 grams of Poria cocos, 30 grams of Coix lachryma-jobi, 7 grams of Amomum villosum, 15 grams of Alisma orientalis, 10 grams of Angelica sinensis, 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, and 10 grams of dried tangerine peel.

3. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: Symptoms include difficult urination, distending pain in the perineum and lower abdomen, hard and enlarged prostate, purple tongue, dark pulse, and stringy and astringent pulse.

The treatment should be to promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, promote qi and dredge collaterals. The prescription for selected is Shaofu Zhuyu Decoction: 10 grams of peach kernel, 10 grams of safflower, 15 grams of angelica, 6 grams of fennel, 10 grams of Toosendan fruit, 10 grams of Linderae scabra, 12 grams of red peony root, 15 grams of Zedoariae rhizome, and 30 grams of dandelion.

4. Liver-kidney yin deficiency type: Symptoms include white turbidity at the urethral orifice, distension of the perineum, soreness of the waist and knees, hot flashes and night sweats, red tongue with little coating, and thin and rapid pulse.

The treatment should be to nourish the liver and kidneys and clear away the internal fire. The prescription is Zhibai Dihuang Decoction with modifications: 15 grams of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 10 grams of Phellodendron chinense, 30 grams of Radix Rehmanniae, 15 grams of Alisma orientalis, 15 grams of Cortex Moutan, 30 grams of Poria, 15 grams of processed Polygonum multiflorum, 15 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, 10 grams of White rattan, and 15 grams of Salvia miltiorrhiza.

5. Kidney Yang deficiency type: symptoms include difficult and difficult urination with semen, fear of cold, soreness and coldness of waist and knees, impotence, premature ejaculation, pale and fat tongue, and weak pulse.

The treatment is suitable for warming the kidney and strengthening yang. The prescription is Jinkui Shenqi Pills with modifications: 10 grams of processed aconite root, 10 grams of Cuscuta seeds, 10 grams of Epimedium, 10 grams of Eucommia ulmoides, 10 grams of Polygonatum, 15 grams of Angelica sinensis, 15 grams of Dioscorea opposita, and 24 grams of Poria.