Difficult case of frequent urination presentation

By Dr Win Huang

Ms Xin, 40 years old, Urinary frequency and urgency for 6 months. half a year ago patient frequently went to the toilet for urinating, about once each half hour, and went to the toilet immediately, she did not want to go shopping, always stay at home, and then would wet her cloth. She could not feels pain in the urinary tract, during urinating. She woke up about 5-6 times at night, because of the problem. She went to her doctor and had a urine test for urinalysis, but could not find anything. her doctor introduced her to a urologist, who gave several special examinations, such as ultrasonic. Still can not get the problem’s underlying reason, so the specialist suggested she take antibiotics and more water. Western medicine treatments, could not get a big effect. So she went to see a Chinese medicine doctor to try a different way. After acupuncture and herbal medicine in a Chinese medicine clinic, also could not feels the big effect of the treatments. The patient is very sad and has bad sleeping, so her friend recommends she see me.

She saw me in my clinic on 20/08/2009, I got more information about her problem. firstly, I knew that she had no pain in the urinary tract during urinating. Second could not find anything in the urine tests and special examinations. thirdly could not get little effect from antibiotics. Final, she had a bad huge mind factor a half year ago. so I think that the problem she suffers is not in the local urological system, but in the high nerve centre.

The Chinese medical opinion is that kidneys predominate panic, lungs predominate sadness, spleen predominates missing, heart predominates happiness, and liver predominates bile. So panic could harm the function of the kidney, and the patient could have frequent urination. We always have the experience in which we have to go to the toilet many times before the final examination in school.

In western medicine theory, we have a centre of the urological system in the brain which manages urination, when urine is full in the bladder, the urine stimulates the wall of the bladder, The centre of the urological system will get the message from the bladder, if the environment we stay is permission, we can do urination, if no permission, we can control the urine to keep in the bladder for a short of time. So when the function of the centre of the urological system is weak or is injured, we could have frequent urination. Clinically, the patient who suffers from stroke also has the symptom of frequent urination, and get the good effect of lessening the time of urinating after acupuncture treatment in scalp acupuncture.

I had a herbal prescription for her, the formula is An Shen Ting Zhi Wan, including Fuling Renshen Changpu Yuanzhi Longchi etc. the principle is to reinforce Qi and calm mind. Acupuncture in scalp acupuncture in the bilateral sensorimotor area of the foot. Apply filiform 40cm needle with continuous rotating for three to five minutes fast out of every ten minutes and retain the needles for 30—40 minutes. On the second-day patient can feel the good effect of the treatments, she only urinates two times at night, it is so amazing, keeping acupuncture for three days and another 5 doses of herbal medicine, and the patient had normal urination.

 

I have done acupuncture for 31 yrs, I got a doctoral degree in acupuncture from a Chinese university in 1995, and I had acupuncture work experience in a big hospital in China, and I have the Chinese medicine clinic in Mt Albert Auckland NZ from 2002, so if you would like to choose an acupuncturist to fix your problem, please come to my clinic, you will have an excellent choice.

If you would like to make an appointment please call us on (09) 8150518 or visit us at 1054 new north road, mt Albert. if you require more information you may e-mail us at hwenchuan@sina.com[:]

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