Mutravaha srota

Mutravaha Srota refers to the channels responsible for carrying urine and can be translated to urinary system in modern medicine terms.

Mutravaha Srota refers to the channels responsible for carrying urine and can be translated to urinary system in modern medicine terms.

Functions: Carries urine

Controlling Organs: 

• Kidneys
• Bladder
• Urinary tract

Causes of vitiation:

• Food, drinks and sex during urge of urination
• Suppression of urge of urination
• Urine suppression especially by those suffering from tuberculosis
• Trauma of bladder or urinary passage
• Food and lifestyle mistakes, such as consuming foods which lead to vitiation of doshas
• One of the most common food and lifestyle mistake linked with issues in mutravaha srota is over or under consumption of water.

In order to help understand how hydration works and how the decisions about the quantity of water intake are to be taken, please refer to this article.

Symptoms and Diseases of Mutravaha srota vitiation:

• Excessive urination
• Frequent urination
• No urination
• Viscous urine
• Urinary incontinence
• Blood in urine
• Smell of urine in vagina
• Yellow color of semen and smell of urine in semen
• Calculi or cysts in the urinary tract
• Cancer of kidneys 
• Diabetes can also be caused by vitiation of mutravaha srota

Treatment: 

• Treatments done for difficult urination.
• Correcting food and lifestyle according to one's body type
• Identifying thirst and drinking water when thirsty (neither ignoring thirst, nor drinking water forcefully)
• Panchkarma cleaning depending on the type of imbalance
• Not suppressing the urge to urinate

References:

Primary Reference: School of Ayurveda and Panchkarma - Lectures and Notes