HERB FORMULAS

RETENTION ENEMA #4

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HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Alumen Ming Fan 15g Relieves toxicity, dries Dampness, stops bleeding and alleviates diarrhea.
Rx. Bletillae Bai Ji 15g Reduces swelling, generates flesh, eliminates ulcers, astringes leakage of Blood and stops bleeding.
Rx. Sophorae Flavescentis Ku Shen 15g Clears Heat, dries Dampness and promotes urination.
Flos Sophorae Immaturus Huai Hua Mi 15g Cools the Blood and stops bleeding.
Rz. Coptidis Huang Lian 10g Clears Heat, drains Dampness, drains Fire, resolves toxicity, clears Heat topically and stops bleeding.
Rx. et Rz. Rhei Da Huang 10g Cools the Blood, clears Heat, reduces Fire toxicity, transforms Dampness and promotes urination.
With Huang Lian, for a feeling of fullness and distention due to Heat accumulation.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Clears Damp-Heat from the Intestines

SYNDROMES

  • Damp-Heat dysentery

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Diarrhea with tenesmus which intensifies after defecation
  • Frequent stools which are small in quantity
  • Stools are yellow or brown, thin, watery, with foul smell or sticky and pasty like jam or sticky fluid or containing pus and blood
  • Burning hot sensation in anus
  • Abdominal pain
  • Urine short and red
  • Sustained fever despite profuse perspiration or raging fever in the afternoon or in severe cases, high fever and coma
  • Mouth dry but no desire to drink
  • Body heavy
  • Limbs tired
  • Fullness in chest
  • Lump in epigastrium
  • Anorexia
  • Vomiting
  • Scanty, dark urine
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow and greasy or Yellow and sticky
  • P: Slippery and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

  • Decoct for use as an enema.

MODIFICATIONS

For chronic recurrence of amoebic dysentery: For chronic bacterial dysentery:
+ 30g Rx. Pulsatillae Bai Tou Weng + 30g Hb. Portulacae Ma Chi Xian
+ 10g Bul. Allii Sativi Da Suan + 10g Bul. Allii Sativi Da Suan
+ 10g Per. Granati Shi Liu Pi