Week 6

Painful Urination
1 UB Damp Heat
Frequent Urgent Burning Painful
Damp from SP Xu, Heat from LV
External Invasion = Hygene or disease
thick yellow greasy tongue coat, slipper rapid pulse
sticky fever, heaviness in limbs
Tx Clear Heat, Disinhibit Damp
scanty dark, urine reddish like food dye
2 Exuberant HT Fire
Blazing LV Fire... causing HT Fire
Palpitations, bitter taste, red prickles on tongue
Sores on the tongue, heat scorches the blood, causing puss
Tx Drain HT fire through Urination: Use Chi Dao San Guide Red Down Formula
HT fire potential sure sign is the HT crack
3 Kidney Yin Xu, Xu Re
Low back and knees weak and sore, + Vacuity Heat signs
Xu Re in KD leads to UB heat.
4 LV Qi Stagnation
6 Depressions
5 Blood Stasis
6 Depressions

Case example
Disease = Freq Urination
Pattern = Liv Qi stag
Tx principle = Course LV, Recitfy the Qi, eliminate damp, disinhibit damp
LV 3, Ren 3, UB 32,


Frequent Urination
UB Damp Heat
LV Qi Stagnation
Straitened Spleen ( Dry Heat ST or Intestines [Yang Ming]) + Sp Yin Xu
Blood stasis
Blood stasis inhibits the Qi Dynamic, and the Qi Dynamic is what voids the bladder, and blood stasis will stop urination.
Kidney Yin Xu
Kidney Qi Xu, Not Securing Front Yin



Stool
Color
Food will change color of stool. Salts will make it darker, Beets can dye red. Blueberries turn purple.
Stable diet, stable color.
dark with yellow = heat binding in the intestines
black tar like stool = melanoma = far bleeding from anus.
Red and white = dysentery (10x a day diarrhea)
SHOULD BE baby turd brown. ideally clean getaway.
in the morning, around sunrise (LI time)

Feeling
Should be able to relax, and comes out quickly with 1 breath
Burning = heat
unsmooth feeling, like sticky, difficult to discharge, = damp
pebbly, hard "tips" is from incomplete movements due to damp. (ungratifying)
stickiness + heat + smell = damp heat.
LV attacking = IBS
Tenesmus
Ab. pain w/ uneasy passage of feces
- urgent desire to defecate w/ heavy sensation in the rectum, possible delayed bowel movement
- TCM mechanisms evils combine with and obstruct the free flow of qi and blood, congesting and stagnating the intestines - this affects the conveynce and conducting
- a)internal urgency b) heavy sensations (burning sensation, explosive diarrhea, foul smell)
- Evils = A) damp heat (burning sensation, explosive diarrhea, foul smell)
B) epidemic toxins (heavy, sagging sensation, red and pus)
C) cold damp

Heat in the LI
Dry and Dark, water can be yellow
Blood Vacuity
Extremely Dry and Hard
Body fluid insufficiency
Extremely Dry and Hard
SP/ST vacuity
loose stools, shapeless (breaks up in water, cloudy water)
Damp Heat in the LI
Front part dry, hard pebbles, + soft, shapeless rear part.
Lv-Sp Disharmony
Possibly irregular, alternating diarrhea and constipation, relates to stress.
Sp-Kd yang vacuity
Undigested food, less smell, maybe fishy/clammy.
Food stagnation
Undigested food, rotten, foul smell.

If there is pus, sign of pus. Bai jiang sao
Go to MD.
Dysentery
Blood and Pus, Red and White, 10x a day.

Diarrhea vs loose stools
Urgency, consistency, thin, possible liquid

Damp Heat
Rich, spicy, thick, greasy, fried foods + alcohol = irritation of damp heat
More Heat = Dry bound
More Damp = Diarrhea
GB 34 = DampHeat in Lower Jiao
with ST 25 Alarm point
more Heat = LI-11 ST 44?
Huang Lian
Hou Po
Ban Shao
Mu Xiang

Food stagnation
poorly digested food, putrid belching, acid regurgitation, st distention, pain, poor appetite, nausea, loose fowl smelling food.
food stagnation = hard to digest foods, or hasty eating.
Tx principles: Abduct food stagnation (UFP [undigested food particles] Adbudction)
ST 21, Ren 12/10,
"you're right if it works" - multiple ways to treat same problem
Ji Nei Jing
Shang Jiang,
Shan Ja


LV-SP disharmony
Sp fails to upbear the clear qi + sp fail to circulate the body fluids, acomlinating in damp peculating down.
Lv-3 with Sp 6
+ st 36
ST 25,
Tong She