Frequent Urination

Health Issues/Symptoms Connections

"Frequent Urination" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for frequent urination.

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "frequent urination" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "frequent urination" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Some acupuncture points are considered "empirically" related to a specific condition or diagnostic pattern. While this would rarely, if ever, dictate the entire composition of a treatment, the following point should be considered, possibly even more so within the context of acupressure:

  • View KD 3 (Great Ravine)

        In depression midway between the tip of the medial malleolus and the attachment of the achilles tendon.

        Tonify KD Qi, Yin or Yang Deficiencies from any etiology. Asthma from KD Deficiency - difficulty inhaling. Tonifies Yin of KD (chronic sore throat, empty heat), LV (dizziness, tinnitus, headache) a/or HT (anxiety, insomnia, excessive dreā€¦

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