Kidney impediment

An impediment (bì) pattern arising from persistent bone impediment that fails to heal with subsequent contraction of external evil, from bone damage due to long walking, or from sexual taxation. Kidney impediment is characterized by the inability to straighten the lumbus and back; this produces a stoop, lumbar pain, hypertonicity of the lower limbs, and seminal emission.

Medicinal therapy: Boost the kidney and dispel evils using Five Impediments Decoction (五痹汤 wǔ bì tāng) plus pubescent angelica (Angelicae Pubescentis Radix, 独活 dú huó), quilled cinnamon (Cinnamomi Cortex Tubiformis, 官桂 guān guì), eucommia (Eucommiae Cortex, 杜仲 dù zhòng), achyranthes (Achyranthis Bidentatae Radix, 牛膝 niú xī), astragalus (Astragali Radix, 黄芪 huáng qí), and fish poison yam (Dioscoreae Hypoglaucae seu Semptemlobae Rhizoma, 萆薢 bì xiè).

Acumoxatherapy: See bone impediment.