Folio Bound VIEWS - Chinese Medicine

pain: e.g. Gan Cao Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis and Bai Shao Radix Paeoniae albae

• astringe with sour herbs for chronic diarrhoea with heavy loss of fluids: e.g. Qian Shi
  Semen Euryales ferocis


• dry the Spleen for chronic diarrhoea from internal Dampness and Spleen deficiency: e.g.
  Bai Zhu Rhizoma Atractylodis macrocephalae and Cang Zhu Rhizoma Atractylodis
  lanceae


• warm the Kidneys for chronic diarrhoea from Kidney-and Spleen-Yang deficiency: e.g.
  Rou Gui Cortex Cinnamomi cassiae


• fill-up Emptiness for chronic diarrhoea from severe deficiency of Spleen and Kidneys:
  e.g. Bai Zhu Rhizoma Atractylodis macrocephalae and Xu Duan Radix Dipsaci.

These methods of treatment are not mutually exclusive and may be combined. For example, one
may simultaneously move Qi and dry the Spleen.

The patterns discussed are:

EXCESS TYPE

Retention of Cold-Dampness

Retention of Damp-Heat

Retention of Food

Liver-Qi stagnation

DEFICIENCY TYPE

Spleen and Stomach Deficiency

Kidney-Yang Deficiency

Excess Type

Retention of Cold-Dampness

Clinical Manifestations

Diarrhoea which, in severe cases, may be like water, abdominal pain, borborygmi, a feeling of
oppression of the chest, no appetite, fever (not always present), aversion to cold, nasal