Do you experience this situation? Lying in bed at night ready to fall asleep, but after a short while, you feel the urge to run to the toilet. You can get up five or six times a night, severely affecting your sleep quality. Why does this happen? In fact, this frequent nighttime urination is likely closely related to your kidneys.

Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that the kidneys govern water and play a crucial role in regulating water metabolism. Under normal circumstances, the kidneys can transform excess water produced by the body's metabolism into urine and excrete it from the body in an orderly manner. However, once there are problems with the kidneys, especially kidney deficiency, the water metabolism within the body becomes imbalanced, and frequent urination follows.

In traditional Chinese medicine, kidney essence transforms into kidney qi, which is further divided into yin and yang aspects. Therefore, whether it is kidney qi deficiency, kidney yin deficiency, or kidney yang deficiency, the root cause ultimately lies in insufficient kidney essence. Hence, tonifying kidney essence is always a correct approach. Today, I will share with you a natural kidney-tonifying beverage—raspberry tea—which helps consolidate essence, reduce urination, and restore balance and health to the body.

Raspberries have a sweet and sour taste, a warm nature, and enter the liver, kidney, and bladder meridians. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica," raspberries "benefit the kidneys to consolidate essence, tonify liver deficiency to improve vision, promote yang, and reduce urination."

From this perspective, raspberries can benefit the kidneys, consolidate essence, and reduce urination, making them highly effective in addressing issues such as frequent and urgent urination, spermatorrhea, and enuresis caused by kidney deficiency. However, it is important to note that raspberries have a warm nature. Individuals with kidney deficiency combined with excess fire or those experiencing scanty and difficult urination should consume them with caution.

This content is intended solely as a general introduction to traditional Chinese medicine knowledge and should not be used as a basis for diagnosis or treatment. Caution is advised regarding any medicinal use. If you experience physical discomfort, please seek treatment under the guidance of a professional physician based on pattern differentiation.