Dysentery #7
- Substances
- 2
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Composition
Clears Heat, resolves Fire toxicity, clears Damp-Heat, cools the Blood and stops bleeding.
Descends Qi, reduces Stagnation and stops diarrhea.
Actions
- Removes Heat
- Brings about the transformation of Dampness
- Brings Qi and Blood into regulation
- Halts dysentery
- Alleviates pain
Syndromes traités
Damp-Heat of the Large Intestine
Manifestations
- Acute-onset bacillary dysentery
- Diarrhea plus tenesmus, growing stronger following a bowel movement
- Repeated stools of small volume
- Stools that are yellow or brown, thin, watery and malodorous or sticky and pasty resembling jam or a sticky fluid or carrying pus and blood
- A sensation of burning heat at the anus
- Colic-like pain in the abdomen
- The abdomen feels distended
- Urination short in stream, red in color
- Fever kept up in spite of profuse sweating or violent fever in the afternoon or, in severe cases, high fever with coma
- Dryness of the mouth or thirst with no urge to drink or
- Cold drinks are favored
- The body feels heavy
- Reddened facial complexion
- Redness of the eyes
- The limbs feel tired
- A sense of fullness in the chest
- A lump felt in the epigastric region
- No appetite
- Emesis
- Dark urine of scanty amount
- In the first few days there may be fever with chills, headache and a floating pulse
- Corps de la langue
- Red-colored
- Enduit
- A yellow, greasy coat or a yellow, sticky coat or a yellow, dry coat (denoting greater Heat)
- Pouls
- Slippery in quality and rapid in rate
Indications
Dysenteric illness