Is there any relationship between prostatitis and kidney deficiency?

I believe that most men are familiar with the problem of prostatitis, because prostatitis has become a male disease with an increasing incidence rate. Kidney deficiency is also a problem that occurs in many middle-aged and elderly people. When kidney deficiency occurs, the patient's sexual ability will be greatly reduced. But is there an inevitable connection between prostatitis and kidney deficiency?

The relationship between prostatitis and kidney deficiency From a medical point of view, patients with chronic prostatitis do not necessarily suffer from kidney deficiency.

What ordinary people call kidney deficiency is a general term for kidney weakness in Chinese medicine diagnosis. Chinese medicine believes that the waist is the home of the kidneys and the area where the kidney's essence and qi are irrigated. The kidney is the water organ, which stores the true yin and contains the original yang. It is the source of human growth, development, and reproduction, the root of life activities, and the innate foundation. Therefore, "the injury of the five internal organs will inevitably affect the kidneys." Clinically, kidney deficiency can be seen as soreness of the waist and knees, fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, forgetfulness, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, impotence, etc.

Prostatitis is a disease name in Western medicine diagnosis. The main clinical symptoms of some patients include low back pain, pain and discomfort in the lower abdomen and perineum, fatigue, frequent urination, painful urination, and even spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, impotence, etc. The relationship between chronic prostatitis and kidney deficiency is divided from the perspective of Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation. Indeed, some patients can be classified into the category of kidney deficiency, and can be further divided into two different situations of kidney yin deficiency and kidney yang deficiency according to specific symptoms. Kidney yin deficiency can be seen with soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, dizziness, insomnia, spermatorrhea, etc.; kidney yang deficiency is manifested by soreness and coldness in the waist and knees, impotence, premature ejaculation, fatigue, etc.

The relationship between prostatitis and kidney deficiency. Judging from the types of prostatitis patients currently treated in outpatient clinics, more than half of the patients are diagnosed as qi and blood stasis or damp-heat stagnation by traditional Chinese medicine, and the treatment also mostly adopts the method of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and promoting dampness. In clinical practice, there are very few patients with prostatitis who can be cured by kidney-tonifying methods alone, because chronic prostatitis is mostly seen in middle-aged and young men. Kidney-tonifying Chinese medicine has the function of regulating the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonad axis and promoting the secretion of prostatic fluid. If the prostate is not excreted smoothly, the patient's symptoms will be aggravated. Therefore, we can say that the relationship between chronic prostatitis and kidney deficiency is relatively special, and it can be said that patients with chronic prostatitis do not necessarily have kidney deficiency.