Prostatitis patients should not 'drink more water'

Nowadays, "drinking water can be more beautiful", "drinking more water can clear the stomach so drink water". But TCM does not have this point of view. Too much drinking water is not necessarily beneficial to the health of the human body, and it is not necessarily beneficial to the treatment.

 

1: Looking at the tongue for the differentiation of the body fluid:

 

TCM understands the need to watch, smell, ask, and feel the pulse as four clinical examinations, which can also be diagnosed by the liquid.  The tongue is red and the coating is yin deficiency, the tongue coating of red and yellow is the yin deficiency and febrile symptoms , and the Yin deficiency people like to drink water (such as diabetes patients) This is a self-adjusting phenomenon; patients with heavy bleeding will have blood deficiency and yin deficiency, and patients with thirst drink water to save themselves; hot summer heat causes internal heat to increase, people like cold drinks, but also self-adjustment, but people with much dampness should not drink too much water, the white greasy tongue coating means heavy moist, the yellow and white greasy coating means inner heat and moist, and the people with too much dampness ought to not take too much water.

 

2: Spleen donminates transformation

 

(1) spleen transport water and grains: spleen digestion of diet and transmission of essense (nutritional ingredients).  Diet goes into the stomach, the stomach and the spleen digest together, the water and grains are transported by the temper to all parts of the body to nourish the whole body tissue, TCM believes that "the spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow."

 

(2) Spleen controls transportion of moist: can promote the operation and excretion of water liquid, in order to maintain the balance of water and liquid metabolismof human body. People with dampness and heavy body weight, if drinking too much water, can lead to wet sleepy spleen and stomach, should stop this kind of practice.

 

3: The spleen is the source of phlegm:

 

(1): Phlegm and dampness, lung failure, coughing.

(2): If heart-wrenching by dampness around the heart, treat with Jiawei Wendan Decoction.

(3): If too much drinking of water, stomach lose its balace of operation, then vomiting, use Pingwei San treatment.

(4): Dampness leads to diarrhea, excessive drinking of water leads to spleen and stomach to be overloaded, too much moist causes diarrhea, treat with Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill.

(5): Excessive drinking of water, water and moisture staying on the skin called edema.  Treat with Pingwei Sanhe Wuling San, Wupiyin Plus as treatment.

(6): TCM believes that fat people are more damp, dampness makes people obese, so many patients with diseases of obese, such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and many more.  Therefore, in the clinical treatment of chronic diseases such as TCM treatment of coronary heart disease, patients with obesity must pay attention to weight loss, must cooperate with the elimination of fat, dampness and weight loss, weight loss will also reduce the burden on the heart, in order to achieve the purpose of curing heart disease well. 

(7): The spleen dominates the main limbs, drinking too much water will make spleen less powerful, the limbs will become weak.

(8): Phlegm along with the flow of qi, nowhere to be found, and spittoon condensation of globus hysteriocus (throat neurosis), cervical lymph node inflammation, and tuberculosis.

(9) Prostatitis, kidney stones are caused by inner heat in lower energizer, it needs diuretic drenching, but not to drink more water, with natural herbal medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill for treatment of stranguria , theurine can be smooth.

 

Patients with the above diseases and symptoms, he may not know that it is caused by excessive drinking of water.  TCM does not think that drinking more water is suitable for everyone. If you are thirsty, you can drink water and you cannot force yourself! That is harmful.