A. What is chronic prostatitis?
Chronic prostatitis is a clinical syndrome with abnormal urination: frequent, incomplete urination, pain or burning sensation during urination and or pain and other somatic symptoms: perineum; testicles; below the waist, suprapubic or bladder area; pain and discomfort during or after ejaculation as the main manifestations.
Etiology of chronic prostatitis – Western medicine
(1) Bacterial prostatitis (only about 10% of cases).
(2) Non-bacterial prostatitis (about 90%).
The role of psychiatric symptoms in the occurrence and development of prostatitis is receiving increasing attention. Among them are anxiety, depression and introverted personality correlated with prostatitis.
Etiology of chronic prostatitis-Chinese medicine
(1) Related to inappropriate sexual behavior.
(2) Damp-heat injection is also an important factor.
(3) Qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Is prostatitis common?
Most people at some point in their lives may experience symptoms similar to chronic prostatitis, which we call “prostatitis-like symptoms”. The majority of people will return to normal, but only some of them will remain untreated for more than three months before being diagnosed with “chronic prostatitis”.
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1, life conditioning
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(2) pay attention to unclean sexual intercourse, to prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
(3) regular work and rest, usually to prevent staying up late and excessive fatigue, to prevent colds.
(4) Do not sit for a long time, do not ride a bicycle or drive for a long time, do not sit in a cold and humid place.
(5) Keep the vulva dry and clean, clean the foreskin every day.
(6) Drink more water and do not hold urine.
2.Spiritual conditioning
(1) Eliminate the psychological fear.
(2) establish confidence to overcome the disease.
(3) firm perseverance to prevent disease.
(4) Correct understanding of the hazards of the disease.
(5) Understand the prognosis of the disease.
3.Diet regulation
(1) Diet should be light, avoid spicy, fatty, sweet and thick taste, avoid alcohol. Avoid eating ginseng, stew, aphrodisiac food, old fire soup, fried food, shrimp, crab, dog meat and other aphrodisiac and damp-heat food.
(2) Apple therapy: the content of zinc is related to the antibacterial and bactericidal ability of the prostate. Apple juice has a good effect on zinc deficiency and is beneficial for the improvement of prostatitis.
(3) Tomatoes: Raw can be supplemented with VitC, which has an antioxidant effect. Cooked can be supplemented with carotene to enhance resistance.
4. Chinese Medicine Meals
Foods that can be used to treat prostatitis: red beans, peach kernel, raw groundnut, sea cucumber, yam, poria, red dates, lotus seeds, loofah, Chenpi, wolfberry, hawthorn, crow’s nest, carp, cuttlefish, water duck, etc.
Simple prescription of medicinal food.
Red bean and carp soup: move water, reduce swelling and diuretic effect, treat damp-heat downward syndrome.
Loofah congee: clearing heat, relieving dampness and detoxifying, treating damp-heat infusion.
Sea cucumber congee: tonifies kidney energy, treats deficiency of kidney essence and yin deficiency and fire.
Peach kernel and cuttlefish: breaking up blood stasis, nourishing blood and nourishing Yin, used for Qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Yam congee: tonifies the kidney and benefits the spleen, used for prolonged illness and physical deficiency to spleen and kidney disorders.