Dysentery

Western medicine

bacterial or amoebic (protozoan) infections

Oriental medicine

Damp/Heat

cramping pain, tenesmus (feel the need to defecate although very small amounts are ever discharged- unfinished feeling), pus and fresh blood in stool, scanty yellow urine, fever

P/T – clear Heat, transform Damp

Acupuncture: [*LI4 - *ST25 - *ST37 - LI11 - ST44]

Toxic Heat

excess fever, dark purple blood in stool, Ying Xue Heat symptoms (restlessness, eruptions, dry symptoms, may vomit blood, manic behavior), T- deep red with yellow coat, P- slippery rapid

P/T – clear Heat, detoxify, stop bleeding

Acupuncture: [*LI4 - *ST25 - *ST37 - LI11 - ST44] + [DU14 - Jing-well]

Damp/Cold

Crohn’s, abdominal pain tenesmus, pus in stool (thick fluids), may contain blood (not very significant), heaviness, fatigue, sticky mouth with no desire to drink, poor appetite,

T- white greasy coat, P- soft slow

P/T – warm mid Jiao, expel Cold, transform Damp

Acupuncture: [*LI4 - *ST25 - *ST37 - RN12 - RN6 - SP9] + moxa

Deficient Middle Jiao with residual pathogen

recurring attacks of dysentery, jelly like stools (pus and blood)

Yang deficiency – coldness, T- pale, P- weak

P/T – warm mid Jiao

Acupuncture: [BL20 - BL21 - BL22 - BL23 - RN4]

Yin deficiency – night sweats, dry mouth

P/T – nourish Yin

Acupuncture: [BL20 - BL21 - BL22 - BL23 - KI6 - SP10]

Jin Kou Li

can’t eat or drink anything without immediately vomiting, mainly caused by Damp/Heat invasion, these people had weak stomachs previous to this invasion

Acupuncture: [*LI4 - *ST25 - *ST37 - MH6 - RN12]

Alternative treatment methods

injection: 5% glucose fluid in ST25 (2ml), put needle in until receive the Qi then inject the solution, may also use 0.1% Huang Lian for its antibiotic effects
3 edge & cupping: bleed 0.2-0.3 cun around navel then cup overtop of the navel.
auricular: [SI LI, ST, SP, LR, KI, sympathetic, shenmen, rectum]