Dysentery #6
- Substances
- 2
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Composition
Invigorates, cools and nourishes the Blood, relieves Heat, detoxifies and promotes diuresis.
Clears Heat and dries Dampness.
Actions
- Quickens, cools and enriches the Blood
- Eases Heat
- Removes toxicity
- Encourages urine output
Syndromes traités
Toxic Heat lodged in the Large Intestines
Manifestations
- Bacillary dysentery of acute onset
- Diarrhea accompanied by tenesmus that worsens once the bowels have moved
- Stools passed often but scant in amount
- Stools yellow or brown, thin, watery and foul-smelling or sticky and pasty like jam or a sticky fluid or holding pus and blood
- A hot, burning feeling at the anus
- Abdominal pain of a colicky character
- Distention of the abdomen
- Urine passed short and red in color
- Fever that persists even with heavy sweating or fierce fever during the afternoon or, in severe cases, high fever together with coma
- Dry mouth or thirst without any wish to drink or
- A preference for cold drinks
- Heaviness of the body
- A complexion that is red
- Eyes that appear red
- Tiredness in the limbs
- The chest feels full
- An epigastric lump
- Loss of appetite
- Emesis
- Urine dark and reduced in volume
- Possibly fever with chills, headache and a floating pulse during the first few days
- Corps de la langue
- Red in color
- Enduit
- Yellow with greasiness or Yellow with stickiness or Yellow with dryness (greater Heat)
- Pouls
- Rapid with a slippery quality
Indications
Dysenteric illness