Diet therapy for elderly people urinating at night

　　According to traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys store essence, control water, and receive qi. They open to the ears and the front and rear yin, and can raise clearness and reduce turbidity. They are the main gate of the human body and work together with the bladder (small gate) to coordinate the balance of water and liquid metabolism. Increased nocturia is mainly due to deficiency of kidney yang, excess yin and yang deficiency, inability to absorb and absorb, and is related to spleen deficiency, weak qi, and blood stasis. Western medicine theory suggests that patients with impaired renal tubular function, reduced concentration ability, reduced water reabsorption, and renal arteriole sclerosis are one of the signs of aging.

　　People who urinate frequently at night should be careful with raw and cold fruits and vegetables. Especially for dinner, they should avoid winter melon, cabbage, watermelon, luffa, zucchini, dried cabbage and their soups. Eat less vegetables, white radish and the like that are easy to get wet or cause digestion, and use less fruits such as pears and bananas. Dietary options include:

　　1. Stir-fried leeks with walnuts

　　Fry 30 grams of walnut kernels in oil, stir in 200 grams of chopped leeks and some shrimp meat, season with salt to serve. It can nourish the kidneys and strengthen yang.

　　2. Stewed silkworm chrysalis

　　Take 25 grams each of silkworm chrysalis and walnut kernels, 15 grams each of Gorgon fruit and Codonopsis pilosula, 5 ginkgo (gingko), and 1 piece of ginger, stew and take it. It can nourish the lungs, spleen and kidneys, reduce urination and warm the waist.

　　3. Bamboo shredded chicken soup

　　Take a quarter of a black-bone chicken and remove the sebum, stir-fry 10 grams of Morinda officinalis in salt water, stir-fry 15 grams of Eucommia in salt water (the Eucommia gum is destroyed to facilitate the flavor of the medicinal materials), and 15 grams of Huaishan. Make a soup and take it. It can replenish kidney yang and is warm but not dry.

　　4. Pork belly soup

　　One pig belly (bladder), 20 grams each of lotus seed meat and gordon fruit, 6 grams of Pangasius slices or 3 grams of Pangasius powder, half a slice of tangerine peel, make soup or stew and take it. It can nourish the spleen and strengthen the kidney, disperse blood stasis and reduce urine.