Kidney deficiency and water retention symptoms of prostatitis

There are many causes of prostatitis. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, if a man has kidney deficiency, this is also an important cause of prostatitis. When prostatitis occurs, it will first lead to some urinary system symptoms, the most common of which are frequent urination, urgency and pain. In addition, it will cause certain obstacles to male sexual function. It is an important cause of premature ejaculation and impotence. It often easily causes pain and leads to white urethral discharge and other phenomena.

1. Sexual dysfunction: premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, loss of libido or impotence. Some patients experience painful ejaculation and hematospermia. Chronic prostatitis is an important cause of infertility.

2. Pain: Due to the influence of persistent chronic inflammation, there is severe tenderness and swelling in the perineum, anus and scrotum, which can often radiate to the pubic bone, lumbosacral region, bilateral inguinal grooves, perineum, and cause pain in the lower limbs. The symptoms are usually more obvious in the morning.

3. Urination: frequent urination, urgency, pain, burning sensation in the urethra, incomplete urination, sometimes difficult urination, frequent urination at night, etc.

4. White discharge from the urethra: Urethral discharge is manifested as white discharge from the urethral opening after urination or defecation. Patients with symptoms of chronic prostatitis will also have pulpy or egg white-like discharge from the urethral opening in the morning.

5. Other manifestations: Chronic prostatitis may be accompanied by neurasthenia, manifested by fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, etc.; long-term prostatitis may even lead to allergic reactions of the body, resulting in conjunctivitis, arthritis and other lesions.

First of all, it should be explained that the kidney has different concepts in the theories of Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. The kidney discussed in Western medicine mainly refers to the urinary system organs of the human body, whose function is to produce and excrete urine. The kidney removes metabolites from the blood and regulates the concentration of fluids and solutes inside and outside cells to keep the body environment stable. Kidney diseases include nephritis, kidney disease, renal failure (uremia) and urinary tract infection in internal medicine; congenital malformations, tumors and stones in surgery.

In short, the kidney is the innate foundation of the human body. Therefore, the kidney mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine has a wide range of meanings. Chronic prostatitis belongs to the urogenital system disease, and its symptoms include abnormal urination, pain in the perineum and surrounding areas, and in severe cases, sexual dysfunction and systemic neurasthenia of varying degrees. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the onset of prostatitis is in the kidney and bladder, and it is closely related to the kidney. Some patients with chronic prostatitis will have symptoms of "kidney deficiency", but most patients do not have kidney deficiency, so the two cannot be equated.