Urination difficulty, urine dripping, and incontinence overcame the pain and became well after persistent treatment
Enlarged prostate, Medical Case
It is very common for men in Hong Kong to suffer from prostatic hyperplasia. According to statistics, among men over the age of 60, more than half may suffer from this disease, which is mostly benign. The indicator Western medicine used to measure the prostate is PSA (Prostate Specimen Antigen), which should normally be between 1 and 4. If the index is over 4, it indicates the chance of having prostate cancer. However, many elderlies whose PSA values have exceeded 4 just suffer from prostatic hypertrophy instead of prostate cancer. The patient in this medical case was fifty-five years old when he was diagnosed and treated. His skin was ruddy but dull and his pulse was not too weak. He suffered from prostatic hypertrophy with difficulty urinating. It usually took him 1 to 2 minutes to successfully urinate. He also suffered from urine dripping (incomplete and uncontrollable urination with urine dripping), which wet his pants and embarrassed him. Only the patient himself knew how painful it was.
I am very experienced in treating this disease with very good track records. The patients have all been cured with the medicine, which have even cured their other diseases at the same time. The prostate gland, also known as the prostate, is located below the bladder. With the size of a chestnut, it surrounds the urethra in the middle. When there is sexual arousal, it will automatically secrete lubricating liquid to constitute a part of semen to be directly injected into the urethra. When orgasm occurs, this will mix with sperms excreted from the spermatophore and be ejaculated out of the body. Enlarged prostate will press and narrow the urethra, making it difficult to urinate. If it is not treated early, many sequelae will occur, such as frequent urination, dysuria, urine dripping, urethral inflammation, bladder stones, renal edema and uremia.
The patient, suffering from male function deficiency, had had no nocturnal penile tumescence for five or six years. He used Chinese medicine to nurse his health and there was slight improvement. For a period of time, he did business in the Mainland and his sexual function declined with no sexual interest nor sexual intercourse. The patient got married late, only eight years ago. He had three children and he had sex once a week. His urethra hurt when he ejaculated and his conditions were not very good. He had serious nocturia, getting up at least two or three times every night, so he did not sleep well and was lack of energy during daytime. Based on my analysis, his liver and kidneys needed to be strengthened and consolidated, to enhance his sexual function, strengthen his ejaculation and improve the contraction ability of his spermatophore and prostate gland. In addition, heat and toxins in his body needed to be removed and metabolism enhanced. After detoxification, the PSA index would naturally go down. With sufficient energy in his kidneys, urination would become smooth and unobstructed.
After taking three doses of medicine, his complexion became ruddier compared with his first visit, and his palms were warm. His urination and nocturnal penile tumescence, however, did not improve much and his nocturia was still frequent. The patient liked to be massaged. There was one time when his penis was accidentally touched, he got an erection immediately. However, at dinner time, he felt a dull pain in his genitals. After massaging with his hands for a while, the pain disappeared. I said the reason for the pain was that when there was sexual arousal, part of the semen would be injected into the prostate to make it swell. Since there was no orgasm hence no ejaculation, the swelled prostate pressed the surrounding nerves and caused pain. He said when he slept that night, there was a wet dream. He had prostatitis before and I thought these were all related to his semen retention.
Strong and less frequent urination
At the second follow-up visit, the patient’s physical conditions experienced new changes. His urination was strong, his urine volume increased, and the frequency of urination decreased. After drinking the medicine, his whole body became hot, but there was still no nocturnal penile tumescence and his sexual function still needed to be improved. Later, his foot massager said the prostate reflex zone on his sole had shrunk. When he pressed it previously, he felt an object the size of a black-eyed bean, but now it was only as big as a green bean. In only three weeks after taking the medicine his prostate had shrunk, improving urination. Patient felt that effect of the treatment had been good and was very satisfied. Soon after, he told me that the hard object on his sole had become powder-like and it was believed that his prostate was gradually shrinking.
At the fourth follow-up visit, the patient said happily that it used to take a long time to urinate, but now it only took twenty seconds, and he could urinate immediately if he was in a hurry. Although his daytime conditions had improved, the night problem was still not resolved with frequent nocturnal urination, two or three times a night, which was distressing. He had sex once every ten days, with increased firmness, sustainability and strength of his penis. I recommended that he had sex every six to ten days to reduce the accumulation of semen and avoid prostate enlargement, which would tighten his urethra and affect urination.
At the seventh follow-up visit, the patient said that the prostatic reflex zone on his sole had become flat without any abnormality. I saw that he was full of energy, his face was ruddy, his hands were warm, but his palms were still slightly purple. Significant improvement was not seen until the ninth follow-up visit when his palms turned bright red, indicating a strengthened heart and increased oxygen supply in his blood. This was a very good sign, but unfortunately his fingernails were still a little purple, indicating that oxygen supply was still insufficient to reach the end of his fingers.
Ultrasonic testing showed reduced hyperplasia
The patient followed my instructions and had an ultrasonic test to check the size of his prostate. At the tenth follow-up visit, he brought a piece of good news that his prostate had shrunk. We were excited, but for unknown reason, there was a small polyp on its bottom pressing his urethra. Before the patient came to me for treatment in September 2002, his urination condition was getting worse. However, now his prostate had shrunk and his urination condition had also notably improved, proving that my treatment was effective. If the polyp was removed, I believed his urination could be completely restored to normal. Since the patient had started taking the medicine, the colours of his urine had been getting darker with stains of blood in the bottles, indicating the discharge of stasis from his myocardium and brain.
Patient hadn’t had nocturnal penile tumescence for a long time but it began to come back gradually. His sexual function had been greatly enhanced with significant improvement in his sexual performance. By the 21st follow-up visit, the patient’s body showed two conditions, one good and one bad. The good thing was that there was no need to wait a long time to urinate, with enhanced bladder elasticity and increased urine volume. The bad thing was his chest felt tight. He felt a lack of breath when he spoke and he needed to take a deep breath with his mouth. His hands sweated, his throat was itchy and he felt very uncomfortable. These were the signs when extreme sorrow turned to joy. When my medicine was opening up a certain organ, health conditions would turn bad. Many people misunderstand that the illness become worse. In fact, it was not. When the bad times are overcome and the good times come, the condition would be greatly improved. I told the patient that he felt tightness in his chest because the medicine was opening up the blockage in his myocardium. There were pink necrotic heart muscle cells discharged in the urine he brought in, indicating his heart was being strengthened accordingly.
One day when he went hiking on a mountain and walked up an incline, his heart suddenly felt unwell, so he called me immediately. I said thin air on the mountain and the opening up of heart blockage by the medicine recently caused shortness of breath. The patient also said that when he walked, his hands did not usually sweat. However, when he was at rest, his hands sweated a lot. He had this problem many years ago, which had later disappeared, but now it recurred. I said that was caused by weakness in his heart because sweat was the fluid of the heart.
At the 26th follow-up visit, the patient’s complexion was very bad. He was tired and the left corner of his mouth was numb. He said that after hiking, his body sweated a lot, but his hands sweated less. His hemorrhoids recurred and swelled in the past few days. I saw scratches on his body and I asked him why. He said that he scratched and hurt his skin recently because of itchiness. These negative changes were all resulted from liver detoxification, during which heart function would be affected and temporarily weakened.
Urine dripping and incontinence fully recovered
A week later, at the twenty-seventh follow-up visit, the itchiness on his body had subsided, and his hemorrhoids had become flat without swelling. He said when he woke up in the morning, his underwear was completely dry, without urine dripping and incontinence which he had before. Due to sufficient kidney energy, his bladder elasticity was enhanced and could accommodate more urine. His sphincter, which controlled urination, was also strengthened, so he could hold in urination. Many bottles of urine he brought in this time were orange, which indicated the discharge of accumulated stasis from his heart.
After almost nine months of treatment, the patient’s urination continued to improve. At the 31st follow-up visit, he said that his left hand was somewhat numb and his left chest was somewhat tight. I thought these were the normal reactions of his myocardium when it was expelling blood stasis. In addition to blood stasis being discharged from his heart, blood stasis is also being discharged from his liver and brain. Sure enough, his numbness and tightness soon disappeared. Unfortunately, the patient stopped taking medicine for two weeks because he needed to go to Canada and tightness in his chest recurred. In fact, before the patient left Hong Kong, he should have informed me earlier, so that more dosages could be boiled in advance for him to take abroad. Stopping medicine suddenly would lead to condition regression. He would need to be treated from the beginning again and would only waste money and time. I told the patient again to pay attention his medicine and not stop taking them.
After the patient resumed taking medicine, his conditions improved again. Although his hands sweated less, his skin was peeling due to alternating dryness and wetness. His hands were itchy, like being bitten by ants. However, I believed the condition would improve soon. As long as his heart was strengthened and his hands sweated no more, the itchiness and peeling problems would be solved.
Near the end of the treatment, the patient had no discomfort in his heart and no sweating on his palms anymore. He used to have thick dead skin on his heels. Since his heart had been continuously discharging dead cells, the heart was strengthened, blood circulation had improved, and blood supply had increased. Dead skin on his heels also gradually fell off, restoring smoothness. He showed me his heels and they looked really soft and smooth. Before, the area from his left cheek to his lip felt numb once a year, which was caused by the accumulation of stasis in his head pressing his nerves. After the continuous discharge of blood stasis, the numbness had completely disappeared.
This medical case was very successful. The patient’s prostate problems had completely recovered. The polyp, though still existed, did not affect his urination. If there was no nocturia, he would have nocturnal penile tumescence the next morning. His male function had also greatly improved, returning to the state when he was young. Being very confident in my medical skills, he brought his wife and two children to me to seek medical treatment. After that, his wife’s family also came to see me. He and I had become close friends because of the illnesses. The patient was first diagnosed at the beginning of September 2002. Until 18 June 2004, the treatment lasted for about one year and ten months with 80 visits.
This article was written by Dr. Sik-Kee Au
July 4, 2017
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Medical case number: 020912