Lin Ziting, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner at Enzhumen Hospital in New Taipei City, pointed out that frequent urination is a subjective problem. According to the definition of International Association for the Prohibition of Urination (ICS),/kloc-0 urinates more than 8 times a day, and urinates more than 2 times at night, which is considered as frequent urination. But generally speaking, no matter men, women and children, as long as they think that the frequency of urination affects their daily lives, it is called frequent urination.
Urinary frequency first distinguishes between deficiency and excess, yang deficiency, damp heat and urgency.
From the perspective of modern medicine, frequent micturition is mostly related to bladder and urethra inflammation, dysuria or micturition pain. In addition, male prostatic hypertrophy can also cause frequent urination. Secondly, women such as uterine fibroids, tumors, or other pelvic diseases may also be the cause of frequent urination.
For frequent micturition, Chinese medicine has the names of "drowning" and "dysuria", which is equivalent to frequent micturition caused by various reasons. Treatment must distinguish between deficiency and excess; The common syndrome type of deficiency syndrome is kidney-yang deficiency, which is characterized by clear urine and often accompanied by other symptoms of yang deficiency; However, the excess syndrome is mostly caused by "damp-heat", often accompanied by urgency and pain in urination or discomfort in urination, which belongs to the category of stranguria in traditional Chinese medicine and can be divided into heat stranguria, stone stranguria, gas stranguria and blood stranguria. It is recommended to consult a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner for further professional diagnosis.