Gān of the kidney

Also gān of the bone. One of the five gān; a pattern of deep-lying heat attributed to breast-feeding difficulties or to insufficiency of kidney qì. Gān of the kidney is characterized by emaciation, blackish complexion, gum sores, upper body heat and lower body cold heat effusion and aversion to cold, vomiting, reduced suckling, efflux diarrhea with prolapse of the anus in severe cases, ulceration of the anus, often together with signs of insufficiency of kidney qì such retarded closure of the fontanel gates, slowness to teethe, and slowness to walk.

Medicinal therapy: Enrich the kidney and supplement the spleen using Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill (六味地黄丸 liù wèi dì huáng wán) supplemented with other medicinals.