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Does the cold weather affect how often we need to go and urinate?
RE: Constant Peeing
This is what the Barefoot Doctor says.....
Into Winter
Did you know that each season has a potentially harmful effect on one of your five vital organs? Spring potentially affects your liver, summer your heart, late summer/early autumn your spleen, autumn proper your lungs, and winter your kidneys. Your kidneys are susceptible to cold and damp, which weaken them and cause them to contrac, thereby impairing their healthy function.
Your kidneys, according to oriental medicine, are responsible for your immune system, brain function, your hearing faculty, keeping your system free of toxins, maintaining body temperature, sex drive and reproductive functions, keeping your joints and bones healthy, slowing down the aging process, keeping the hair on your head, upholding your will-power, as well as supporting all the other organs.
To fulfill these roles to optimum levels, your kidneys must be kept warm and relaxed at all times, especially now as the days get colder and damper. This is particularly important to remember on days when the wind is blowing from the north or east, as these winds are the most pernicious, punishingly cold, damp and bone-penetrating.
To aid the process, eat a small knob of raw ginger every day. Men can take ginseng supplements and women, donquai. Massage your kidneys (in the lower back) every evening with fists in a circular motion 18 times in each direction. Massage your ears vigourously between thumb and forefinger, as the ears (which resemble the kidneys in shape) are the 'flowers of the kidneys', and stimulating them thus sends energy to the kidneys.
Avoid excessive alchohol and coffee intake to reduce kidney strain, excessive masturbation to avoid depleting kidney energy, and leaning against walls or sitting on concrete, to avoid transmission of cold into the kidney region.
Oriental women sometimes wrap a silk scarf round their waist (under their clothes), to maintain stable temperature.
Be sure to take a walk or spend at least a short time outside just for fun every morning, to ensure adequate reception of natural daylight, as daylight deprivation causes depression, and while doing so turn your waist from side to side 18 times in a twisting motion, allowing your arms to swing naturally, as this helps prevent muscular contraction around your kidneys. (T'ai-chi, with its various waist-twisting motions, is particularly good for the kidneys and is well worth considering taking up.)
Do not take to drinking excess ammounts of water in the mistaken belief that this will strengthen your kidneys, as it will only serve to flush them through and will in fact more likely weaken than strengthen them. Do however drink nettle tea once or twice a week if you feel they need help with the detoxification process, and do visit an acupuncturist or shiatsu specialist for some more precise renal manipulation from time to time.
Signs to watch out for that would indicate deficient kidney energy, and the need for alternative medical attention - and I stress alternative because western medicine hasn't yet arrived at this point of refinement a propos understanding kidney functions - are lower back ache, joint pains, dark circles round your eyes, hair loss, anxiety and nervousness, sleeplessless, aching joints, urinating more than seven times a day, and engaging in self-destructive behaviour.
Finally talk lovingly to your kidneys as this sets up a positive unconscious psychosomatic command, with such sentiments as, "I love my kidneys. My kidneys are strong. My kidneys keep me going all winter long." And always remember to breathe as deeply and slowly as you can at all times - not just because deep breathing helps massage the kidneys from within. Breathing is the most important thing in life, no matter the season, for without it, everything else simply stops
RE: Constant Peeing
Hi Rakhee
Yes it can & does, Urine is a waste product full of stuff that if left in our bodies would be Toxic to us... causing failure of vital organs. it is excreated thro the kidneys via the bladder.In the summer we don't pee so much because we sweat more sweat is also a waste product excreated thro our skin as opposed to our kidneys.
There are medical reasons why one would pee more than normal. Is you thirst increased?.does it sting burn or hurt like hell? do you have pain around the kidney area?
Metaphysically tho if you're peeing more than you normally would (even in winter)it indicates that Someone is P****ng you off ;)!
Love & Hugs Maria xxx
RE: Constant Peeing
Hiya
In agreement, as we dont sweat in winter there is normally an increase in the amount of urination.
However be aware of anything else unusual which may suggest anything else...
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