Frequent Nighttime Urination — TCM Food Therapy & Dietary Approach

Food Therapy & Diet

Dietary Therapy Recipes

• Shiitake Stewed with Jujubes: Steam 40g each of shiitake mushrooms, jujubes and rock sugar until cooked; eat once in the morning and once in the evening daily, one week per course.
• Glutinous Rice Paste: Steam 120g glutinous rice until cooked, mix in 30g rock sugar, steam over low heat for another 5 minutes and eat; once daily for one week.
• Snakehead Fish or Rabbit Soup: Stew snakehead fish or rabbit meat into soup by the usual method; eat the meat and drink the soup; effective with regular consumption.
• Pork Liver and Black Soybean Rice: Cook an appropriate amount of pork liver and black soybeans mixed with glutinous rice (or polished rice) as a staple for dinner.
• Turtle and Dog Meat Stew: Stew 250g each of turtle meat and dog meat until tender; eat the meat and drink the soup in 2 divided doses daily.
• Morinda and Chicken Intestine Soup: Cut open and wash 2 sets of chicken intestines, decoct with 15g morinda root (bajitian) and 2 bowls of water down to 1 bowl; season with salt, drink the soup and eat the intestines, in 2 divided doses daily.
• Sheep Tripe Soup: Wash 1 sheep tripe, cook in water into soup and season with salt; eat on an empty stomach once daily for 4-5 days.
• Rooster Intestine Powder: Split open and wash 1 rooster intestine, dry it over fire and grind into fine powder; take 10g with warm water twice daily for 7-10 days.
• Fennel Powder with Glutinous Rice: Stir-fry an appropriate amount of fennel seeds with salt and grind into powder; steam glutinous rice and eat it with the fennel powder, about 50g daily.
• Sheep Lung and Mutton Stew: Wash and cut 1 sheep lung into pieces, stew with a small amount of mutton, season with an appropriate amount of salt, and eat in divided doses.
• Jujube for Nocturia: Eat 3 large jujubes (double the amount if small) raw at 8pm every night and go to bed promptly at 9pm; do not drink water if thirsty afterward. Avoid spicy and stimulating foods during this period; take for one month. Effective for nocturia.
• Turtle and Young Rooster Stew: Stew 500g turtle with an appropriate amount of young rooster meat until cooked and eat.

Understanding the Condition

As older adults' physiological function declines, bladder elasticity decreases and urine storage capacity becomes limited. In the cold winter, the body's soft tissues (skin and blood vessels) contract to conserve warmth, making excessive nighttime urination more likely; this both disturbs sleep and may lead to illness from catching cold.

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