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Clinical Manifestations
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- 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
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| Treatment Principle |
- Clear Heat
- Eliminate Dampness by diuresis
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| Herb Formulas |
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| Points |
- KI-7, LIV-2, REN-3, SP-6, SP-9, UB-23, UB-28, UB-39
- LIV-2, REN-3, SP-9, UB-28
For fever and chills: + DU-14
For hematuria: + SP-10
For low back pain: + UB-27
- HT-8, LIV-2, LIV-5, REN-3, SP-6, SP-9, UB-28
For alternating fever and chills: GB-39, SJ-5 or GB-41, SJ-5
- For retention of urine:
1. REN-3, SP-6, SP-9, UB-28
2. REN-3, SP-6, SP-9, UB-39
- For Blood Lin:
1. KI-3, LIV-2, REN-3, SP-6, SP-9, SP-10, UB-28
2. KI-1, KI-7, LIV-3, REN-3, SP-10, UB-17, UB-23, UB-27
- For Stone Lin:
1. KI-2, KI-3, LIV-2, REN-3, SP-9, UB-28, UB-39
2. KI-1, LIV-1, REN-4, UB-23, UB-28, UB-40
- For Milky Lin:
1. KI-3, KI-6, LIV-2, REN-3, SP-9, UB-23, UB-28
2. REN-4, REN-6, SP-6, SP-9, UB-22, UB-27, UB-28
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