Large Intestinal Disease
Large intestinal disease (dà cháng bìng) is attributable to evils such as heat, cold, stagnation, dampness, and wind, or to vacuity. Rumbling intestines or pain around the umbilicus, constipation or diarrhea, bloody stool or tenesmus with blood and pus in the stool, and prolapse of the rectum are signs of large intestine disease. The main patterns are listed below:
- Large Intestinal Vacuity Cold (dà cháng xü hán)
- Large Intestinal Humor Depletion (dà cháng yè kuï)
- Large Intestinal Damp-Heat (dà cháng shï rè)
- Large Intestinal Heat Bind (dà cháng rè jié)
- Large Intestinal Cold Bind (dà cháng hán jié)
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