From Plain Questions (素问 sù wèn, liù yuán zhèng jì dà lùn). A disease pattern characterized by urinary urgency, frequent short painful rough voidings, and dribbling incontinence. Strangury is attributed to damp-heat gathering and pouring into the bladder. In persistent conditions or in elderly or weak patients, the cause may be center qì fall and kidney vacuity and impaired qì transformation. Distinction is made between stone strangury (which also includes sand strangury), qì strangury, blood strangury, unctuous strangury, and taxation strangury, known collectively as the five stranguries.
Biomedical correspondence: urinary tract infections; tuberculosis of the urinary tract; urinary calculus; prostatitis; filariasis.
Medicinal therapy: For heat, use the method of clearing; for rough voidings of urine, disinhibit; for falls, apply upbearing, and for vacuity, supplement.
Etymology
Chin 淋 lín, dribble, drip. Eng from Gk. stragx, stragg-, a drop, ouron, urine. See also dribbling urinary block.