How does Chinese medicine treat prostate hyperplasia in the elderly?

Prostatic hyperplasia is one of the common diseases in men’s old age, which not only involves the problem of old age and frailty, easy to take care of, but the disease is often combined with urinary retention, overflow incontinence, bleeding and other pathologies. If the bladder outlet is obstructed for a long time, the urine will flow back into the kidneys and even lead to serious problems such as obstructive renal failure. For patients with prostate hyperplasia who have lost the opportunity of western medical (surgical) treatment using Chinese medicine evidence-based treatment has its own unique efficacy. The advantage of TCM treatment, which includes herbs, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, massage, and topical medication, is that it can be individualized for each patient, thus adjusting the balance of the patient’s internal environment and relieving the patient’s symptoms of difficulty in urination. Clinical data shows that the disease is more common in men over 55 years old and its incidence increases with age. The kidney deficiency is the basic condition of the prostate gland hyperplasia, old age, or long-term disease deficiency, kidney yang deficiency, the life of the door fire failure, gasification is not as good as the state are, resulting in the bladder gasification without the right, and urinary impassable or dripping, weak urination; or the lower yuan deficiency cold shutdown unfavorable, and frequent urination, night urination especially, or see urine from the overflow and incontinence and other symptoms. The enlarged prostate gland becomes larger, elevated, harder than normal, and the central groove becomes shallow or disappears, which is a sign of internal stasis of blood. This is the basic pathological mechanism of prostate gland hyperplasia. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a person who has been in the business for a long time. In this formula, Huang Qi tonifies Qi, Cuscuta tones the spleen and kidney and benefits Yang essence, Cistanches tonifies the kidney and Yang and benefits essence and blood, Niuxi not only activates blood circulation and dispels blood stasis, but also tonifies the liver and kidney and promotes lymphatic and astringent effects, and can guide all the medicines downward to reach the disease. It is also a good antispasmodic to relieve the spasm of the urethral sphincter that is compressed by the enlarged prostate. The main proprietary Chinese medicines for this disease are retention of urine, Shu Gu Tong, Prostate Tong Yu capsule, Prostate Shu Wan, Liu Wei Di Huang capsule and so on. It is also possible to use prostate pessary for anal administration. For patients with urinary retention, you can take one single head of garlic, three pieces of raw gardenia, a little salt, pounded like mud and put it on the umbilicus; you can also acupuncture points such as Zhongji, Guilai, Sanyinjiao, Bladder Yu, Foot Sanli, etc. If the body is weak, moxibustion points such as Qihai, Guangyuan, Waterway, etc.