Lumbar pain

Pain in the lumbus, on one or either side, or affecting the spine. The lumbus is the house of the kidney, and lumbar pain is commonly associated with kidney problems. Specific causes include taxation detriment, debility in old age, depletion of kidney qì, contraction of external evils, and external injury. External evils and external injury generally cause acute pain that manifests as a repletion pattern.

Biomedical correspondence: low back pain; lumbago.

See external contraction lumbar pain; internal damage lumbar pain; external injury lumbar pain; postpartum lumbar pain. Compare pain in the lumbar spine; aching lumbus.