Food therapies for frequent micturition

Normal people urinate about 4 to 6 times in day and 0 to 2 times at night. Frequent micturition refers to unusual increase in urinate during normal circumstances, and can be divided into physiological and pathological illness. Excessive drinking, nervous or climate changing can cause physiological micturition; while the pathological one is mostly urinary tract infection, or physical and chemical urinary tract stimulation, mainly of the bladder problem.

Therapeutic principles

Frequently applied foods:

1.For people of gonorrhoea and who have pain in frequent micturition, mild foods and easy-digested foods are better choice, juicy、nutritious and of full vitamins foods are the recommendations. Fresh vegetables、fruits are highly recommended, such as green vegetables, watermelon, white guard, red bean, mung bean, mustard, bamboo shoots, pear, lotus root, loquat, Ma Lan tou, bai guo, corn, celery, lettuce and so on. Drink more water and soup, so the urines can be excreted normally.

2.For people of gonorrhoea and who belong to weak in spleen and kidney, tonic foods are of first choice, such as lotus seeds, longan, yam, potatoes, chicken, fish, eggs, etc.

3.Hyperglycaemia patients should intake more grain foods, especially those nourish yin and clearing heat, such as hei mu er, lily, water chestnut, pear, yam, lotus seed, tuckahoe, walnut kernels, lentils, sponge gourd, wax gourd, gou qi zi, etc.

General therapies:

1.Walnut: proper amount of walnut, decocted with salty water, drink up the whole decoction.

2.Bai guo 5 pieces, dong gua zi 30g, make water decoction.

3.Sheep bladder: one piece about 30g, clean it well and decoct with water.

4.Gan zhe, lotus root each 500 g, smash them and divide into three decoctions.

5.Ya zhen pi porridge: ya zhen pi one piece, rice 50 g. Clean the ya zhen pi, boil it with slow fire, smash into powder for latter use. Make rice porridge, add in ya zhen pi and boil another round, add white sugar to change the flavor. Apply two times a day, each time one bowl of the porridge. You may apply as breakfast and supper as well.

6.Stewed xiang gu with red dates: xiang gu, red dates, crystal sugar each 10g, two eggs. Smash the eggs and steam with other materials together. Apply one time at breakfast each day for a week.

7.stigmata maydis 15g, decoct with water, add sugar as tea.

Dialectical food therapies:

A.deficiency of kidney qi:

Clinical manifestations:

Clear and long urine;accompany with white complexion; dizzy head; tinnitus; soreness and weakness of waist and knees; pale tongue; white coating on tongue; weak pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Invigorating kidney qi.

Food therapies:

B.Kidney-yang deficiency:

Clinical manifestations:

Pale complexion; stressful and tired;cold and pain in waist and knees;cold limbs;thin excrements; frequent urine;enuresis nocturna; pale tongue with white coating;collapsing and weak pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Nourishing the kidney and yang qi.

Food therapies:

C. Kidney yin deficiency

clinical manifestations:

Frequent urine with yellow color;thirsty;red face;dysphoria;giddy dazzled, tinnitus, lumbar genu aching and limp is faint;burning limbs and heart;dry manure;red tongue;thin pulses.

Food therapies principles:

Nourish the kidney yin, urine containment.

Food therapies:

D.Kidney qi deficiency:

clinical manifestations:

Clear and long urine;yellow complexion;always feel tired and exausted; eating less and anorexia;loose stool;pale tongue with white coating; weak and slow pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Tonifying spleen and qi;control the urine system functioning.

Food therapies:

1.Zhu du lian zi soup:one piece of zhu du, lian zi 300g. Make porridge together, apply 2-3 times a week.

2.Ji nei jin sha ren soup:1 ji nei jin, proper sha ren. Boil together, apply several times a day.

3.Qian shi nuo mi porridge:qian shi 100g, proper amount of nuo mi. Make porridge and apply 2-3 times a day.

4.Pork fries with xiang gu:pork 100g, xiang gu 100g, yellow rice wine 5g. Clean the xiang gu, soak in water. Slice the pork. Make sauce with yellow wine、sugar、soy sauce、aginomoto、salt、flour. Cook the pork and xiang gu with quick deep-fry of 15 minutes then add the sauce and stir even.

5.Fu pen zi stewed with beef:yellow beef meat 1000g, fu pen zi50g. Clean the beef and cut into squares. Clean the fu pen zi and soak in yellow wine. Stir the beef in quick fire for 5 minuts and add 2 spoon of yellow wine、soy sauce of 4 spoon, and stew for 5 minutes, add fu pen zi and hui xiang at last. Pour in cold water until it drown the beef, switch to slow fire and stew for another 2 hours after the boiling. Eat the meal and drink the soup.

E. Deficiency of stomach yin

Clinical manifestations:

Long and frequent urine, accompany with dry mouth and lips; thirsty& frequent drinking;less appetite; weakness;dry stool; pale tongue; yellow coating;thin and rapid pulse.

Food therapies principles:

Nourish yin and spleen; smooth the intestines and defecation.

Food therapies:

1.Bai yu tea:yu zhubai zhudang guibai he each of 30g, make the decoction. Drink as tea.

2.Shan yao geng mi porridge:shan yao50g, huang jingsha shen each 15g, geng mi(rice) 50g. Smash the shan yao into powder, stew huang jing and sha shen and collect the clear decoction. All geng mi and shan yao powder in the clear decoction and make porridge. Apply as breakfast.

3.Shi hu sheng di tea:shi husheng dishu ditian dongmai dongsha shennv zhen ziyin chen and pi pa ye each of 9 g, waterlemon juice 100ml. Boil the above ingredients well and apply as tea.


Food therapies for frequent micturition