What is the relationship between male nocturnal emission and kidney deficiency?

Many people have experienced nocturnal emission, because after all, it is a manifestation of male puberty. So what is the relationship between male nocturnal emission and kidney deficiency? What are the types of male spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency and how to treat it?

Two common types

There are two common types of spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency in clinical practice.

1. The main symptoms of weak kidney qi are pale complexion, sore waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and frequent spermatorrhea. The tongue is pale with white coating, and the pulse is thready and weak.

2. Symptoms of heart-kidney disharmony include palpitations, forgetfulness, soreness of waist and legs, restlessness and insomnia, frequent nocturnal emissions, short and dark urine, red tongue with little coating, and a thin and rapid pulse.

Causes: Patients with weak kidney qi often have endocrine dysfunction such as low levels of thyroid hormone, adrenal glucocorticoids, testosterone, and chorionic gonadotropin; patients with heart-kidney disharmony are often accompanied by autonomic dysfunction (hyperactivity of sympathetic nerves) and genitourinary organ infections.

There are many methods to treat spermatorrhea, including tonifying the kidney and consolidating essence, connecting the heart and kidney, clearing the heart and calming the mind, clearing away dampness and heat, etc., but tonifying the kidney and consolidating essence, connecting the heart and kidney are most commonly used, especially for spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency. The author often uses Jinkui Shenqi Pills combined with Erxian Decoction to treat patients with weak kidney qi, and Huanglian Qingxin Yin (Coptis chinensis, Rehmannia root, Angelica sinensis, Poria cocos, Polygala tenuifolia, Licorice root, Ziziphus jujuba seed, Chuanxiong seed, and lotus seed meat) with modifications to treat patients with heart-kidney disharmony. For patients with spermatorrhea, the following medicated diet treatments can also be used.

(1) 15g Cordyceps sinensis, 250g chicken, add seasoning and cook.

(2) 1 turtle, remove the intestines and head, 30g wolfberry, 30g Chinese yam, 45g Ligustrum lucidum, 15g Rehmannia root. Add seasoning, steam and cook, remove the herbs, eat the meat and drink the soup.

(3) Take 30g each of leek seeds, echeveria seeds and Ligustrum lucidum fruits, add appropriate amount of brown sugar, and pound into pills the size of sycamore seeds. Take 9 pills each time.

(4) Grind 120g of Rosa rugosa and 60g of Amomum villosum into fine powder, make into pills with refined honey, and take on an empty stomach with decoction. Take 6g each time, twice a day.

(5) Grind the hedgehog skin into powder and take 3g 3 times a day, mixed with rice wine or honey.

(6) Grind 30g each of caesalpinia ochre seeds and alpinia oxyphylla seeds into fine powder and take with boiled water, 6g each time, 3 times a day.