Sundance Acupuncture

Herb & Acupuncture Database

(This is my own personal database of teachers, teachings and notes that I use in my practice. I’ve decided to share it freely with anyone who would like to reference it.)

Polyuria, Frequent Urination

General

Clinical Manifestations
Treatment Principle
Herb Formulas
Points

Shao Yin Cold

Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Curls up a lot
  • Doesn't like to talk
  • Tired (disoriented)
  • No spirit
  • Dull Shen
  • Cold extremities
  • Diarrhea or loose stools or undigested food
  • Clear, frequent urine
  • Maybe nausea (wants to vomit but can't)
  • No thirst
  • Likes warm drinks
  • Severe edema in chest
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Sinking and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Restore Yang
  • Reverse inward energy
  • Expel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points

Lung And Spleen Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, copious, clear urine or
  • Incontinence or enuresis
  • Worse with exertion and fatigue or when sneezing or coughing
  • Protracted, incessant cough or
  • Cough
  • Expectoration of copious, clear, watery or white Phlegm
  • Short, weak, breathing
  • Soft, low voice or
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Asthma
  • Pale complexion and lips
  • Mild edema of the eyelids or fingers which is worse in the morning
  • Facial edema
  • Dizziness
  • Chest oppression
  • Four limbs tired
  • Anorexia
  • General lassitude
  • Cold body
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Distention and pain of the epigastrium and abdomen
  • Loose stools
  • Severe cases:
    Frightens easily
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Weak or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Reinforce the Spleen
  • Benefit the Lungs
  • Aid ascent of Yang
  • Warm and transform Phlegm-Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points

Large Intestine Cold

Clinical Manifestations
  • Constipation
  • Difficulty in passing stools
  • Dull pains and cold sensations in abdomen
  • Preference for warmth; dislike of Cold
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Abundant clear urine
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thick, white and moist
  • P: Deep and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Cold
  • Relieve constipation
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia (maybe with vomiting)
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools or watery stools containing undigested food
  • Shortness of breath
  • Pain in the epigastrium with cold sensations (pain is relieved by warmth)
  • Cold limbs
  • Feeling chilled
  • Frequent, clear urination
  • Mental fatigue
  • Maybe scanty urine with edema
  • Maybe clear, watery vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen Dryness

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, dark colored urination
  • Dry, hard stools
  • Maybe abdominal fullness
  • T: Dry
  • C: Dry and yellow
  • P: Excess
Treatment Principle
  • Moisten the Intestines
  • Drain Heat
  • Circulate Qi
  • Free the bowels
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen And Stomach Deficiency Cold

Clinical Manifestations
  • Mild constant epigastric pain; relieved by warmth and pressure
  • Anorexia
  • Abdominal pain and fullness after meals
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Loose, unformed stools
  • Excessive salivation
  • Cold limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Sallow or pale, dull complexion
  • Frequent urination
  • Maybe edema
  • Maybe scanty urination
  • Maybe clear, watery, copious vaginal discharge
  • T: Pale
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Warm Yang
  • Warm the Center
  • Dispel Cold
Herb Formulas
Points

Spleen And Kidney Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent urination
  • Frequent nocturia
  • Copious amounts of clear urine
  • A lusterless complexion
  • Torpid intake
  • Abdominal distention
  • A tendency to loose stools
  • A sticky feeling in the mouth
  • A bland taste in the mouth
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Enuresis
  • Either a tendency towards being too hot of too cold
  • Shortness of breath
  • No thirst or thirst with no desire to drink
  • Asthma
  • Cold limbs
  • Low back soreness and pain
  • Weak back and knees
  • T: Pale with teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, weak and possibly tight
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
  • REN-4, SP-6, SP-9, UB-23
    For a stronger effect: + KI-7
    For severe edema and cold low back pain: + moxa DU-4
    For severe edema and cold low back pain and hematuria: + moxa DU-4, Xuechou
    For Heart palpitations and rapid panting: + LU-7, PC-6, REN-23
    For severe edema in the limbs: + ST-28
    For severe edema in the abdomen: + REN-9

Spleen And Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Body cold
  • Limbs icy
  • Complexion white and shiny or withered, yellow
  • Lassitude
  • Lack of strength
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back, knees and abdomen feel cold and painful
  • Lower abdomen feels cold and painful
  • Loose stools containing undigested food
  • “Cock-crow” diarrhea (occurs at about 5 am)
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Edema of face and limbs
  • Edema of the body
  • A sticky sensation in the mouth
  • A bland taste in the mouth
  • Frequent, clear nighttime urination or
  • Scanty urination
  • Dysuria
  • Severe:
    Abdominal ascites
  • T: Pale, tender, moist and swollen maybe with teethmarks
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep and weak or Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce the Spleen and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points

Stomach Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Epigastric fullness and distention
  • No desire for food and drink
  • Frequent belching
  • Borborygmus
  • Loss of sensation of taste
  • Stools not solid
  • Urine clear and abundant
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Weak and Deficient
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen Qi
  • Invigorate the Spleen and Stomach
Herb Formulas
Points

Phlegm-Fire Disturbs The Heart

Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability
  • Palpitations
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Insomnia
  • Much dreaming
  • Easily startled
  • Frequent dark, scanty urine
  • Severe cases:
    Incoherent speech
    Crying and laughing without reason
    Manic agitation with irrational behavior
    May physically attack or abuse others
  • T: Red tip
  • C: Yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery, Excess, rapid and maybe wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Clear the Heart
  • Break through Phlegm
Herb Formulas
Points

Small Intestine Deficiency Cold

Clinical Manifestations
  • Vague lower abdominal pain
  • Feelings of cold and heaviness
  • Fond of warmth and pressure
  • Abdominal fullness intermittently
  • Borborygmus
  • Unformed, loose stools or
  • Chronic, incessant diarrhea
  • Urinary frequency
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and even
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Clear the Small Intestine
Herb Formulas
Points

Liver Qi Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary frequency that is initiated by stress or emotional upset
  • Urination feels incomplete or hesitant
  • Fullness in the lower abdomen
  • Tightness or fullness in the chest
  • Difficulty getting a satisfying breath
  • Distention and pain in the sides or flanks
  • Suffocating sensation in the chest
  • Tendency to sigh
  • Hypochondriac discomfort or tightness
  • Dizziness
  • Occasional fatigue, better with exercise
  • Abdominal distention
  • Melancholy
  • Depression
  • Irritability
  • Inappropriate anger
  • Irregular menses
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Menstrual lower abdominal distention and pain
  • Breast distention and pain before and during menses
  • Premenstrual syndrome
  • Flatulence
  • Alternating diarrhea and constipation
  • T: Pink or Dark and slightly enlarged
  • C: Thin and white or White and slimy
  • P: Wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Soothe the Liver
  • Clear Stagnation
  • Resolve Dampness
  • Disinhibit urination
Herb Formulas
  • Chai Hu Shu Gan Tang modified
  • Xiao Yao San modified
  • Chinese Patent Medicines:
    Chen Xiang Hua Qi Wan
    Shu Gan Wan
    Ma Xing Shun Qi Wan

    Xiao Yao Wan
    Long Dan Xie Gan Wan
Points

Kidney Yin Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, scanty, yellow urine
  • Maybe with a sense of Heat or irritation
  • Later stage: Maybe incontinence
  • Dizziness
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back and knees
  • Steaming bones
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the leg and heel
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Thirst
  • Night sweats
  • Five sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Facial flushing
  • Red lips
  • Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • Restlessness
  • Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • Dry stools and/or
  • Constipation
  • Heightened libido
  • Vexation
  • If Heart Fire also Flares:
    Insomnia
    Frequent dreams
    Palpitations
  • If Liver Yang also Rises:
    Dizziness
    Blurred vision
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Kidney Yin
  • Clear Deficiency Heat
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yin And Yang Deficiency With Fire Rising

Clinical Manifestations
  • Amenorrhea
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Hot flashes
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Night sweats
  • Perspiration
  • Nervousness
  • Muscular flaccidity
  • Fatigue
  • Cold feet
  • Lassitude
  • Frequent, clear urine
  • Irritability
  • Headache
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Mood swings
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Replenish Kidney Yin and Yang
  • Purge Fire
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Low back and knees feel cold, weak and aching
  • Feeling chilled
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • General debility
  • Pale or waxy pale complexion
  • Urinary frequency with abundant, clear urine or
  • Oliguria with edema
  • Maybe nocturia
  • Maybe incontinence
  • The urge to urinate may increase with exposure to Cold
  • The urge to urinate is worse with prolonged standing and lifting
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Lassitude
  • Listlessness
  • Fatigue
  • Withdrawn, subdued behavior
  • Knees feel cold and aching
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Impotence
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Low libido
  • Female infertility ("uterus cold and infertile")
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Maybe loose stools or
  • Constipation
  • Maybe chronic diarrhea or "cock crow" diarrhea
  • T: Pale and swollen or Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Deep and thready - maybe slow or Slow and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce Kidney Yang
  • Astringe fluids
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Yang Deficiency: Kidney Qi Not Consolodated

Clinical Manifestations
  • Low back and knees aching and weak
  • Hearing deficit
  • Jing Gate Not Consolidated:
    Spermatorrhea
    Premature ejaculation
    Vaginal discharge
    Infertility
  • Urinary disorder:
    Frequent, clear, abundant urination
    Dribbling after urination
    Incontinence of urine
  • T: Pale and swollen with teethmarks
  • C: Thin white
  • P: Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Consolidate the Kidneys
  • Conserve Qi
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Qi Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent urination
  • Copious amounts of clear urine
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Enuresis
  • Nocturia
  • Either a tendency towards being too hot of too cold
  • A bright white facial complexion
  • Dizziness
  • Shortness of breath
  • Asthma
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • Edema in the lower limbs
  • Lassitude
  • Lower back and knees weak and painful
  • Lingering tinnitus or deafness
  • Seminal emission
  • Impotence
  • Sterility
  • Fatigue
  • Lack of strength
  • Maybe anorexia
  • Maybe loose stools
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, weak and possibly tight or Thready and weak or Deep, weak and slow or Deep, thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Kidney Qi
  • Warm Kidney Yang
  • Nourish Jing and Blood
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Jing And Liver Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent urination
  • Hair loss
  • Pale facial complexion
  • Cold limbs
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Weak and sore low back and knees
  • Cold sensation in the glans penis
  • Loose teeth
  • Spontaneous emissions
  • Nocturnal emissions
  • T: Pale red with fissures
  • C: Little or none
  • P: Deep, thready and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Enrich the Liver
  • Boost the Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points

Kidney Deficiency With Cold In The Urinary Bladder

Clinical Manifestations
  • Dribbling urination
  • Enuresis
  • Frequent, long clear urination
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Upper and lower back pain and aching
  • Cold limbs
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep and thready
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Kidneys
  • Secure the Bladder
Herb Formulas
Points

Damp-Heat In The Urinary Bladder

Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary frequency
  • Urinary urgency
  • Painful urination or
  • Continuous dripping of urine or
  • Sudden interruption to the urinary stream
  • Turbid urine or
  • Pus and blood in the urine or
  • Sand and stones in the urine
  • If there is incontinence, the urine may be scanty, dark and strong smelling
  • There may be suprapubic fullness and discomfort
  • Fullness and discomfort in the chest and diaphragm
  • Anorexia
  • Nausea
  • Bitter taste in the mouth
  • A tendency to constipation or
  • Alternating loose and sluggish stools
  • Chronic cases:
    Burning and pain may be mild or absent or
    Maybe a sense of urethral irritation or
    A of feeling of constantly needing to urinate
  • In Damp-Heat Pouring Downward there may also be:
    Fever
    Thirst with little desire to drink
    A sticky, dry mouth
    Low back pain
  • In Damp-Heat Crystallizes in Urinary Bladder there may also be:
    Colicky pain in the low back, possibly radiating to the groin
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and slimy
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Soft and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Eliminate Dampness by diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points

Qi And Yin Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • A lusterless facial complexion
  • Fatigue
  • A generalized lack of strength
  • Shortness of breath on exertion
  • Low back and knee soreness and limpness
  • Torpid intake
  • A dry and/or sticky mouth
  • Little or no desire to drink water
  • The taste of urine in the mouth
  • Dry, bound stools
  • Scanty, yellow urine during the day
  • Profuse, clear urine at night
  • Five-sole Heat
  • T: Pale with teethmarks
  • C: Thin and white or Little or None
  • P: Thready
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify the Spleen
  • Augment Qi
  • Supplement the Kidneys
  • Nourish Yin
Herb Formulas
Points

Qi , Blood And Yang Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Dizziness
  • Pale face
  • Weak voice
  • Reluctance to speak
  • Sweating with little or no exertion
  • Dizziness
  • Palpitations
  • Insomnia
  • Dry skin
  • Dry hair
  • Poor memory
  • Paleness
  • Scanty periods
  • Chills
  • Cold limbs
  • Inability to get warm
  • Loose stools
  • Profuse clear urine
  • Spontaneous sweating
  • Lassitude
  • T: Pale
  • C: White or Thin, white and dry
  • P: Slow, deep and weak or Empty or Thready and rapid or Weak
Treatment Principle
  • Tonify Qi and Blood
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Yang
Herb Formulas
Points

Blood Deficiency

Clinical Manifestations
  • Postpartum emaciation and weakness
  • Persistent, tight abdominal pain
  • Abdominal pain with spasms or radiates to back and waist
  • Cannot eat
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Pale face
  • Intermittent spasmodic abdominal pain which is better with Heat and pressure
  • Epigastric pain
  • Lusterless complexion
  • Fidgeting
  • Reduced appetite
  • Maybe low-grade fever
  • Palpitations
  • Irritability
  • Cold and sore extremities
  • Nonspecific discomfort
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Five sole Heat
  • Debilitated constitution in children
  • Enuresis in children
  • Insomnia
  • Fatigue
  • Anemia
  • Bleeding
  • Abdominal weakness
  • Epistaxis
  • Habitual constipation
  • Maybe warm extremities
  • Night sweats
  • Tired limbs
  • Frequent urination
  • Night crying
  • Diarrhea in children
  • Habitual headache in children
  • Hernia pain in children
  • Chronic constipation
  • Purpura
  • Asthma
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Weak and slow or Thready, wiry and even or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonifies the Spleen and Stomach
  • Relieve spasmodic pain
Herb Formulas
Points

Blood Stagnation

Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, painful urination
  • Purple, dark-colored turbid urine
  • Lower abdominal distention and pain
  • Pain worse with pressure
  • T: Dark with Stasis spots or maculae
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Stasis
  • Disinhibit urine
Herb Formulas
Points

Internal Cold

Clinical Manifestations
  • Oliguria or
  • Polyuria
  • Abdominal pain
  • Constipation
  • Hypochondriac pain
  • Chills
  • Low-grade fever
  • Cold hands and feet
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Pain in the armpits
  • Unilateral pain in the abdomen and hypochondrium
  • Stiffness and spasms beside and below the umbilicus
  • Pain in the waist and legs
  • T: Normal
  • C: Greasy and white
  • P: Deep, tight and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Interior
  • Disperse Cold
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points

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