Chinese medicine believes that frequent night urination in the elderly may be due to kidney yang deficiency or kidney qi not solid, and Colla Corii Asini does not have the effect of tonifying kidney yang and benefiting kidney qi, therefore, it cannot treat the disease.
Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is responsible for the second bowel movement, if the patient’s kidney yang is weak or the kidney qi is not solid, it may lead to the bladder out of contract with the manifestation of frequent nocturnal urination. For patients with this symptom, it is necessary to choose the appropriate medication according to the specific type of evidence.
For example, for those with Kidney-Yang deficiency, mainly with coldness (fear of cold, cold limbs), pallor (white color and lack of luster), lumbar and knee soreness (feeling of soreness and weakness in the lumbar and knee areas), diarrhea, etc., you can choose to treat with Pseudostemonium, Cinnamon, and so on.
For those with kidney qi deficiency, such as weakness, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with slight movement), and soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, ginseng and astragalus can be chosen for treatment.
Colla Corii Asini belongs to the medicines that tonify blood and nourish yin, and is good at treating mainly the evidence of blood and yin deficiency. It does not have significant therapeutic effect on frequent nocturia.
If you have symptoms, you should take medication under the guidance of a professional physician, do not take medication blindly, so as not to delay the condition or produce adverse reactions.