Post Date November, 16 2024
We always say that women's menopause actually forgets that men also have menopause. Men's menopause is later than women's menopause, and the symptoms are not as obvious as women's, so it is often ignored by people. Male menopause generally occurs between the ages of 50 and 60, and shows symptoms such as mental tension or depression, fatigue, memory loss, inattention, insomnia, paroxysmal hot flashes, sweating, decreased libido and erectile dysfunction.
Chinese medicine believes that after men enter menopause, their kidney qi is weak, their blood essence is insufficient, and their kidney yin and yang are out of balance. Kidney yin and kidney-yang are the basis of yin and yang in all organs. The imbalance of kidney-yin and kidney-yang leads to dysfunction of all organs, forming the pathological basis of male menopausal syndrome.
Eight symptoms of male menopause
1. Skin aging
Skin aging begins with facial wrinkles. With the neck, the skin of hands and feet will become more and more loose and sagging. This is due to the gradual decrease of fat and elastic tissue.
2. Cardiovascular aging
With the growth of age, there are many phenomena of cardiac hypertrophy and endocardium thickening, which may be due to the increase of cardiac connective tissue, the deposition of interstitial fat, the calcification of heart valves and other structures. In addition, there may also be vascular failure such as poor elasticity, sclerosis, arteriosclerosis, vascular stenosis, etc.
Abnormal vascular regulation: fever, quilt kicking, dry heat restlessness, headache, dizziness, palpitation, etc.
3. Aging of digestive organs
With the growth of age, the fibers and glands of smooth muscle of digestive tract gradually atrophy, the gastric mucosa becomes thinner and thinner, and the colon and gastric cavity gradually expand and lose elasticity. These changes are gradual, so many people have no symptoms. However, if you don't control your diet, pay attention to hygiene, and maintain emotional stability, it will be obviously induced.
Yin deficiency of liver and kidney: symptoms include dizziness, low back pain, tinnitus, night sweating, irritability, red face, rising fire, hot hands and feet, dry mouth, short and red urine, red tongue, thin and stringy pulse.
4. Urinary aging
Around the age of 50, the glomerular filtration rate of the human body gradually decreased, the blood urea nitrogen began to rise, the renal tubular function significantly decreased, and the urine concentration function also decreased sharply. Therefore, after entering menopause, there are often many nocturnal urination, facial urination and residual urination. Symptoms of heart-kidney disharmony, restlessness, insomnia, palpitation, anxiety, dizziness, waist ache, forgetfulness, five-heart fever, pale red tongue, thin pulse.
