The prostate hypertrophy belongs to the Chinese medicine “retention of urine (urine drip or urine)” and other categories, identification and treatment of Chinese medicine is more effective, can effectively alleviate the patient’s symptoms of the disease, but the ability to retract the gland varies from person to person, it is difficult to generalize.
In Chinese medicine, retention of urine should be treated as a principle, and the specific treatment should be different according to the symptoms of deficiency and solidity, and for those with mixed deficiency and solidity, the symptoms should be treated together with the root cause. If the abdomen is distended and urgent, and the urine does not drip, and the internal medication does not help the urgency of the problem, it should be combined with urinary catheterization or acupuncture, etc., so as to pass the urine urgently.
1. Early stage of retention of urine, mostly due to bladder dampness and heat, lung heat congestion, etc., the treatment focuses on the flu, prescriptions, such as Bazheng San, Qinglong Drink have a better therapeutic effect.
2. In the late stage of retention of urine, it is mostly due to spleen qi not rising (meaning that the spleen and stomach are weak and the organs are falling down), ascending clearness and descending turbidity (so that the clear qi rises and the turbid qi descends), or exhaustion of renal yang, which is mostly a deficiency disease, and the treatment focuses on tonifying the spleen and kidneys, so as to help the qi to be transformed. Treatment should focus on tonifying the spleen and kidneys to assist qiization. Prescriptions can be used for this purpose, such as tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, combining with Chunze Tang, and adding or subtracting Jisheng Kidney Qi Pill.
The adverse effects of the above prescriptions are not known. Patients who are not feeling well are advised to consult a doctor in time, and to avoid self-medication, which may lead to adverse effects, as they need to be diagnosed by a TCM doctor.