Unctuous strangury

Strangury with urine like rice water (water that rice has been washed in), snivel (nasal mucus), or animal fat. Distinction is made between vacuity and repletion.

Patterns

Vacuity (虚 xū) patterns are usually attributed to spleen-kidney vacuity and are characterized by mild pain and absence of burning sensation, limp aching lumbus and knees, dizziness and tinnitus, shortness of breath, and fatigue.

Medicinal therapy: Supplement the spleen and kidney and promote astriction. Use Center-Supplementing Qì-Boosting Decoction (补中益气汤 bǔ zhōng yì qì tāng), Six-Ingredient Rehmannia Pill (六味地黄丸 liù wèi dì huáng wán), or Cuscuta Seed Pill (菟丝子丸 tù sī zǐ wán).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on the three yīn channels of the foot and the alarm and back transport points of BL (CV-3 and BL-28). Main points: BL-28 (Bladder Transport, 膀胱俞 páng guāng shù), CV-3 (Central Pole, 中极 zhōng jí), SP-9 (Yīn Mound Spring, 阴陵泉 yīn líng quán), LR-2 (Moving Between, 行间 xíng jiān), and KI-3 (Great Ravine, 太溪 tài xī). For spleen-kidney vacuity, add BL-23 (Kidney Transport, 肾俞 shèn shù), BL-20 (Spleen Transport, 脾俞 pí shù), CV-4 (Pass Head, 关元 guān yuán), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), and CV-6 (Sea of Qì, 气海 qì hǎi); needle with supplementation and add moxa.

Repletion (实 shí patterns are attributed to damp-heat brewing in the lower burner and are characterized by pain and burning sensation on urination, heat effusion, lumbar pain, and headache.

Medicinal therapy: Clearing and transform damp-heat and separate the clear and eliminating the turbid. Use formulas such as Fish Poison Yam Clear-Turbid Separation Beverage (萆薢分清饮 bì xiè fēn qīng yǐn) or Lygodium Spore Powder (海金沙散 hǎi jīn shā sǎn).

Acumoxatherapy: To the main points given above add LR-5 (Woodworm Canal, 蠡沟 lǐ gōu), SP-6 (Three Yīn Intersection, 三阴交 sān yīn jiāo), KI-7 (Recover Flow, 复溜 fù liū), and LR-8 (Spring at the Bend, 曲泉 qū quán); needle with drainage.

See strangury.

Etymology

Chin 膏 gāo, paste, ointment; 淋 lín, dribble.