Dietary Therapy to Reduce Nocturnal Urination
In winter, the climate is colder, causing skin blood vessels to constrict, so the body primarily regulates water balance through urination. Thus, people tend to urinate more frequently in cold weather. Elderly individuals, due to decreased bladder elasticity and limited urine storage capacity, experience significantly increased nighttime urination, causing inconvenience and even risking catching colds from frequent nighttime awakenings, affecting overall health. Based on traditional experience, the following dietary therapies have proven effective in reducing nocturnal frequency. Try them:
△ Cook pig liver and black soybeans with rice until fully cooked, consume during dinner.
△ Roast walnuts until soft, eat 4–8 per night before sleep.
△ Steam mushrooms, red dates, rock sugar (each 40 grams), and two eggs until cooked. Consume once in the morning and once in the evening daily for seven days.
△ Use 1000 grams of dog meat and 20 grams of cinnamon bark. Place both in a ceramic pot and stew until dog meat is tender. Fry the dog meat in a wok with vegetable oil, add seasonings and salt, then pour the original broth and cinnamon bark back into the wok and boil before eating. Consume for three consecutive days.
△ Clean one pig bladder, fill with 5 grams of Psoralea corylifolia, 4 grams of Schisandra chinensis, 5 grams of Myristica fragrans, 5 grams of Cornus officinalis, 5 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, seal tightly, add 1500 ml water, boil for about one hour, discard the broth, eat the pig bladder.
△ Clean one chicken intestine, add 20 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, cook into soup, best consumed in the evening; alternatively, cook chicken intestine with 4 grams of Alisma orientale until done, eat the intestine.
△ Use 1000 grams of rabbit meat, boil into broth for consumption. Effects visible after three days.
△ Steam 120 grams of glutinous rice until cooked, mix with 30 grams of rock sugar, then steam over low heat for five minutes. Consume continuously for one week.