(BENIGN) PROSTATIC HYPERTROPHY, BPH, PROSTOMEGALY

Clinical Manifestations
  • Hesitating and straining to urinate
  • Reduced urinary stream
  • Enlarged prostate
  • Acute urinary retention
  • Uremia following prolonged obstruction
  • Frequent nocturnal urination
  • Increased thirst
  • Continued urge to urinate
Treatment Principle
Nutrition
  • Zinc - 50mg
  • Linseed oil - 1 tablespoon twice a day
  • Avoid:
    Dairy
    Grease
    Fat
    Rich food
    Alcohol
    Coffee
    Smoking
  • Eat:
    Pumpkin seeds
    Tangerines
    Cherries
    Figs
    Mangoes
    Sunflower seeds
    Seaweeds
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Itching or tickling in the throat
  • Wheezing
  • Sneezing
  • Gasping
  • Cough with expectoration of thin, watery or frothy white sputum
  • General body aches
  • No thirst
  • Dyspnea
  • Headache
  • Body aches
  • A sensation of heaviness
  • Chills with low grade fever
  • Maybe asthma
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Anhidrosis
  • Blocked and/or runny nose with watery nasal discharge
  • Chest discomfort
  • Neck stiffness
  • Irritability
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin, white and moist
  • P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind-Cold
  • Induce diaphoresis
  • Dispel Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Dripping urine
  • Irritability
  • High fever
  • No chills
  • Aversion to Heat
  • Weak cough
  • Asthma
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Dark yellow urine
  • Dyspnea
  • Chest pain
  • Shortness of breath
  • Phlegm (thick yellow)
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick yellow, maybe dry and sticky or Greasy
  • P: Rapid, maybe slippery, maybe forceful or Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Promote water metabolism
  • Dredge Lung Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Uneasy, inhibited urination
  • Drips and drops, but lack of free flow
  • Lower abdominal distention and pain
  • A dry throat with a desire to drink
  • Vexation and chest oppression
  • Uneasy respiration
  • Maybe cough
  • Maybe Phlegm panting
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Lung Heat
  • Move Qi
  • Disinhibit water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, scanty, forceless and inhibited urination
  • Maybe a desire to urinate without success
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • A weak voice
  • Sagging and distention in the lower abdomen and perineal area
  • Sallow complexion
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teethmarks
  • C: White
  • P: Even or Soft and thready or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, REN-1, REN-4, REN-6, SP-6, ST-36
    For inhibited urination or desire to urinate without success: + SP-9
    For dribbling urination: + UB-52
    For accompanying Damp-Heat: + SP-9, ST-44
    For sagging pain in the genitals: + moxa LIV-1
    For distention and pain in the lower abdomen, groin and genitals: + LIV-8
    For Food Stagnation : + ST-21
    For accompanying Kidney Qi Deficiency: + KI-3
    For accompanying Kidney Yin Deficiency: + KI-7
    For Heart and Spleen Deficiency: + HT-7
    For severe Qi Deficiency: + SP-3
Clinical Manifestations
  • Body cold
  • Limbs icy
  • Complexion white and shiny
  • Low back, knees and abdomen feel cold, weak and painful
  • Lower abdomen feels cold and painful
  • Loose stools containing undigested food
  • “Cock-crow” diarrhea (occurs at about 5 am)
  • Maybe constipation
  • Edema of face and limbs
  • Dysuria
  • Urinary frequency and urgency
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Urinary dribbling
  • Forceless urination with a thin stream
  • Nocturia
  • Clear or turbid white urination
  • Maybe a cool scrotum
  • Maybe impotence or decreased sexual desire
  • Fatigue
  • Severe:
    Abdominal ascites
  • T: Pale, moist and swollen
  • C: Thin and white or White and greasy
  • P: Deep, thready, weak and maybe slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and Reinforce the Spleen and Kidneys
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Irritability with a sensation of Heat in the chest
  • Thirst with a desire to drink cold beverages
  • Red face
  • Fever
  • May be sores around the mouth
  • Dark, scanty urine
  • Rough urination
  • Fidgeting
  • Warm sensations in the chest
  • Sores on the tongue
  • Painful urination (stabbing)
  • Urination short and hesitant
  • Hematuria
  • Oliguria
  • Maybe blood in the urine
  • Sluggish urination
  • Irritability
  • Fatigue
  • Insomnia
  • T: Red
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heart
  • Nourish Yin
  • Promote urination
  • Relieve Lin Syndrome
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Restlessness
  • Irritability
  • Thirst
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Insomnia
  • Dream disturbed sleep
  • Lack of spirit
  • Fatigue
  • Low back pain
  • Tinnitus
  • Dysuria
  • Depression
  • Turbid urine
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Polyuria
  • Enuresis
  • Seminal emission
  • Leukorrhea
  • Blood tinged leukorrhea
  • Anorexia
  • Dry mouth
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Fever
  • Physical and mental overexertion
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Deep and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heart Fire
  • Disperse Damp-Heat
  • Benefit Qi and Yin
  • Promote urination
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Insomnia with much dreaming
  • Irritability
  • Easily startled
  • Palpitations
  • Poor memory
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Low back soreness
  • Legs weak
  • Tidal fever
  • Night sweats
  • Dry mouth
  • Red cheeks
  • Urine short and red
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Yin
  • Reduce Fire
  • Make the Hear and Kidneys communicate.
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent urination
  • Urgent urination
  • Acute urinary incontinence
  • Rough urination
  • Hypochondriac pain and distention
  • Alternating fever and chills
  • Depression
  • Dysphoria
  • Easily angered
  • Chest fullness
  • Bitter taste in mouth
  • Susceptibility to rage
  • Fidgeting
  • Abdominal pain and cramps
  • distending pain in the lower abdomen
  • Breast distention and pain
  • Irritability
  • T: Pink or Red
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Wiry or Tight
Treatment Principle
  • Dredge the Liver
  • Promote Qi circulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary strangury and obstruction which is worse with emotional upset or stress
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Irritability
  • A quick temper
  • Insomnia
  • Maybe flatulence
  • T: Normal or Slightly dark
  • C: White and slimy
  • P: wiry and slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Dredge the Liver
  • Regulate Qi
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Scatter nodulation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Itching or tickling in the throat
  • Wheezing
  • Sneezing
  • Gasping
  • Cough with expectoration of thin, watery or frothy white sputum
  • General body aches
  • No thirst
  • Dyspnea
  • Headache
  • Body aches
  • A sensation of heaviness
  • Chills with low grade fever
  • Maybe asthma
  • Intolerance of Cold
  • Anhidrosis
  • Blocked and/or runny nose with watery nasal discharge
  • Chest discomfort
  • Neck stiffness
  • Irritability
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin, white and moist
  • P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Disperse Wind-Cold
  • Induce diaphoresis
  • Dispel Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • This syndrome is frequently complicated with diabetes.
  • Recurrence occurs after overstrain
  • Powerless discharge of urine
  • Frequent, scanty, yellow or brown urine
  • Frequent nocturia or
  • Dripping urination
  • Maybe with a sense of Heat or irritation
  • Later stage: Maybe incontinence
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus or deafness
  • Poor memory
  • Aching, soreness or weakness of the low back and knees
  • Spermatorrhea or
  • Premature ejaculation
  • Aching in the bones
  • Aching in the leg and heel
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Thirst
  • Nightsweats
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Malar flush
  • Facial flushing
  • Low grade fever in the afternoon
  • Restlessness
  • Dry throat, maybe recurrent sore throat
  • Dry stools and/or
  • Constipation
  • Heightened libido
  • If Heart Fire also Flares:
    Insomnia
    Frequent dreams
    Palpitations
  • If Liver Yang also Rises:
    Dizziness
    Blurred vision
  • T: Red
  • C: Little or None
  • P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish Kidney Yin
  • Clear Deficiency Heat
  • Transform Qi to drain Dampness
Herb Formulas
  • Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
  • Chinese patent medicines:
    Liu Wei Di Huang Wan
    Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
    Da Bu Yin Wan
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold extremities
  • Scanty urination
  • Abdominal distention
  • Edema of the legs
  • Cold sensations in the lower body
  • Sensory numbness
  • Low back pain
  • Severe pitting edema
  • Fatigue
  • Urinary difficulties
  • T: Pale and swollen with teeth marks
  • C: White and slippery
  • P: Deep and wiry
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Tonify the Kidneys
  • Aid water transformation
  • Promote urination
  • Reduce edema
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Edema of whole body particularly at and below the waist
  • Pitting edema
  • Low back pain, aching and heaviness
  • Abdominal distention with full sensations
  • Oliguria
  • Cold limbs
  • Face gray and congested or pale
  • Feeling nervous and cold with mental weariness
  • In severe cases:
    Ascites
    Edema of scrotum
  • T: Pale and swollen
  • C: Thin, white or Thick, white and sticky
  • P: Deep and thready
  • With Water Flooding the Lungs:
    Cough with copious, thin watery phlegm
    Asthma with phlegmy sound (wheezing)
    Dyspnea
    Facial edema
    Edema of limbs
    Dysuria
    T: Pale and swollen
    C: White and moist or White and greasy
    P: Superficial and tight
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Kidneys
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Oppressive pain in the prostate,
  • Dysuria or
  • Dripping urination
  • Nocturnal polyuria
  • Powerless discharge of urine or
  • Spontaneous urination which is out of control
  • Pallor
  • Timidity and weakness
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Cold limbs
  • Aching and weakness of low back and knees
  • Cold and painful sensations in low back and knees
  • Impotence
  • Loose stools or
  • Constipation due to Deficiency
  • T: Pale or Echymoses
  • C: White and greasy
  • P: Deep, weak, thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Nourish the Kidneys
  • Remove Stasis
  • Promote diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Difficult urination
  • No power in urination
  • Dribbling urine
  • Frequent nocturnal urination
  • Pale face
  • Lack of spirit
  • Lower back pain
  • Knee pain
  • Maybe a dull pain on urination
  • Urge to urinate when tired or after exertion
  • T: Pale
  • C: Little or none
  • P: Deep and rapid
  • For pronounced Kidney Yang Deficiency:
    Pallor
    Pale urine
    Chilliness
    T: Pale and maybe swollen
  • For pronounced Kidney Yin Deficiency:
    Scant, yellow urine
    Urgent urination
    Maybe hematuria
    Night sweats
    T: Red
    C: Little or None
    P: Thready and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Nourish Yin
  • Nourish the Kidneys
  • Promote urination
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary frequency
  • Urinary urgency
  • Painful urination or
  • Continuous dripping of urine or
  • Sudden interruption to the urinary stream
  • Turbid urine or
  • Pus and blood in the urine or
  • Sand and stones in the urine
  • In Damp-Heat Pouring Downward there may also be:
    Fever
    Thirst
    Dry mouth
    Low back pain
  • In Damp-Heat Crystallizes in Urinary Bladder there may also be:
    Colicky pain in the low back, possibly radiating to the groin
  • T: Red
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Eliminate Dampness by diuresis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, scanty inhibited urination
  • Painful urination
  • Urinary dribbling worse with taxation
  • Yellow urine
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • Fever
  • Cough
  • Low back pain
  • Nausea/vomiting
  • Dizziness
  • Tinnitus
  • Impotence
  • Seminal emission
  • Irritability
  • Insomnia
  • Restlessness
  • Diarrhea
  • Anxiety
  • Edema
  • Lower abdominal distention and pain
  • Maybe hematuria
  • Dry skin
  • Sunken eyes
  • Afternoon fever
  • Constipation
  • Night sweats
  • T: Red or Dark red and dry
  • C: Yellow, thin or none
  • P: Thready and rapid or Forceful and rapid or Rapid and forceless
Treatment Principle
  • Promote urination
  • Clear Heat
  • Nourish the Yin
Herb Formulas
Points
  • KI-3, REN-3, UB-23, UB-28
  • KI-7, REN-1, REN-4, SP-6, UB-23
    For continuous terminal dribbling and nocturia: + UB-52
    For severe Kidney Yang Deficiency: + moxa or moxa needle DU-4
    For low back pain: + KI-7
    For fatigue and lassitude : + SP-3
    For decreased sexual desire or impotence: + DU-4
    For loose stools: + SP-4
    With Damp-Heat: + SP-9
    For more severe Blood Stasis: + SP-10
  • Electro GB-28 - REN-2
  • Ear: Shenmen, Bladder, Kidney, Subcortex, Urethra, Heel
Clinical Manifestations
  • Localized painful swellings without a head that bleed into the surrounding tissues and do not affect the color or texture of the skin
  • The swellings are not hot to the touch
  • No thirst
  • Swollen and painful joints
  • Wasting of the muscles of the thigh and calf
  • T: Very pale or Pale-pink
  • C: White
  • P: Thready and forceless or Deep and slow
Treatment Principle
  • Warm the Yang
  • Tonify the Blood
  • Disperse Cold
  • Eliminate Stagnation
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary retention
  • Discomfort before urination
  • Distention and pain in the lower abdomen, relieved by urination and made worse by stress
  • Urine color is normal
  • T: Normal
  • C: White
  • P: Wiry and deep
Treatment Principle
  • Circulate Qi
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain and discomfort which may radiate to the lower abdomen and upper thighs
  • Inhibited urination
  • Urination with a thin or cleft stream
  • Frequent urination
  • Incomplete urination
  • Dribbling urination
  • Lower abdominal distention, fullness and discomfort
  • T: Dark with possible static macules or spots
  • C: White
  • P: Slippery, wiry and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Move Qi
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Phlegm
  • Disperse nodules
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Sallow complexion
  • Fatigue
  • Anorexia
  • Four limbs feel tired and heavy
  • Abdominal and epigastric distention after eating
  • Maybe acid regurgitation or vomiting
  • Loose stools
  • Shortness of breath
  • Maybe edema in limbs, especially lower limbs
  • Maybe anasarca
  • Physical and mental fatigue
  • T: Pale and flabby - may have teeth marks
  • C: White or White and moist
  • P: Even, forceless and Deficient or Soft and even
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Move water
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Urinary frequency, urgency and dribbling which is worse with exertion
  • Forceless urination with a thin stream
  • Fatigue
  • Lassitude
  • Weakness
  • Symptoms worse with fatigue
  • Dizziness
  • Low back and knee weakness and pain
  • Five Sole Heat
  • Insomnia
  • Malar flushing
  • A dry mouth and throat
  • T: Fat, dry and red
  • C: Little or None
  • Thready and rapid or Soft and rapid
  • Note* This pattern includes Damp-Heat consuming Yin and Qi with Blood stagnation
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Tonify Qi
  • Enrich Yin
  • Drain Heat
Herb Formulas
Points
  • KI-7, REN-1, REN-4, ST-36, UB-23
    For continuous terminal dribbling and nocturia: + UB-52
    For severe Kidney Yang Deficiency: + moxa or moxa needle DU-4
    For fatigue and lassitude : + SP-3
    For decreased sexual desire or impotence: + DU-4
    For loose stools: + SP-4
    For more severe Blood Stasis: + SP-10
    For inhibited urination or desire to urinate without success: + SP-9
    For accompanying Damp-Heat: + SP-9, ST-44
    For sagging pain in the genitals: + moxa LIV-1
    For distention and pain in the lower abdomen, groin and genitals: + LIV-8
    For Food Stagnation : + ST-21
    For accompanying Kidney Qi Deficiency: + KI-3
    For Heart and Spleen Deficiency: + HT-7
    For severe Qi Deficiency: + SP-3
Clinical Manifestations
  • Postpartum emaciation and weakness
  • Persistent, tight abdominal pain
  • Abdominal pain with spasms or radiates to back and waist
  • Cannot eat
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Pale face
  • Intermittent spasmodic abdominal pain which is better with Heat and pressure
  • Epigastric pain
  • Lusterless complexion
  • Fidgeting
  • Reduced appetite
  • Maybe low-grade fever
  • Palpitations
  • Irritability
  • Cold and sore extremities
  • Nonspecific discomfort
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Nocturnal emission
  • Five sole Heat
  • Debilitated constitution in children
  • Enuresis in children
  • Insomnia
  • Fatigue
  • Anemia
  • Bleeding
  • Abdominal weakness
  • Epistaxis
  • Habitual constipation
  • Maybe warm extremities
  • Night sweats
  • Tired limbs
  • Frequent urination
  • Night crying
  • Diarrhea in children
  • Habitual headache in children
  • Hernia pain in children
  • Chronic constipation
  • Purpura
  • Asthma
  • T: Pale
  • C: White.
  • P: Weak and slow or Thready, wiry and even or Thready and weak
Treatment Principle
  • Warm and tonify the Spleen and Stomach
  • Relieve spasmodic pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Decreased urination or
  • Interrupted urination or
  • Constant urination or
  • Anuria
  • Hematuria
  • Maybe fixed, stabbing pain on urination
  • Lower abdominal fullness
  • Lower abdominal pain which may radiate to the genitals
  • Inhibited dripping urination
  • Threadlike urination
  • Tumor formation
  • A hard, palpable sensation in the swollen prostate
  • Purple urine with blood clots
  • Abdominal spasms and tension
  • Suprapubic fullness, distention and pain
  • Maybe lower abdominal masses
  • Pain in the iliac fossa on palpation
  • Soider naevi on the abdomen, inner ankle and inner knee
  • Headache
  • Sinus congestion
  • Constipation
  • Lower back ache
  • Nervousness
  • Fatigue
  • Skin eruptions
  • Scaly, dry skin
  • Headache
  • Shoulder stiffness
  • Vertigo
  • Cold low body and feet
  • Flushed face
  • T: Dark purple or with echymoses or petechiae or pale with purplish spots
  • C: White
  • P: Choppy or Wiry or Tense, deep and slow or Thin or Deep and choppy or Slow and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Transform Blood Stasis
  • Soften lumps
  • Reduce fixed abdominal pain
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Pain
  • Lower abdominal distention
  • Lower abdominal Cold
  • Lower abdominal pain
  • Dry lips
  • Dry mouth
  • Spermatorrhea
  • Pale complexion
  • Low grade fever at dusk
  • Irritability
  • Five sole Heat
  • No desire to drink
  • Low back coldness and pain
  • Loose stools
  • Cold limbs
  • Aversion to Cold
  • T: Purple with petechiae
  • P: Thready and choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Dispel Cold
  • Warm the channels
  • Nourish the Blood
  • Dispel Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Electro GB-28 - REN-2
  • Ear: Shenmen, Bladder, Kidney, Subcortex, Urethra, Heel
Clinical Manifestations
  • Turbid, pale urine
  • Urination stops and starts
  • Terminal dribbling
  • Symptoms are better with Heat and worse with Cold
  • Dragging down sensation in the lower abdomen
  • Lower abdominal ache
  • Fatigue
  • T: Normal
  • C: Sticky or Greasy at the root
  • P: Slippery
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Cold
  • Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Lower abdominal distention and pain (usually on right)
  • Pain increases on pressure with rebound tenderness
  • Guarding of the abdominal musculature
  • Groin pain resembling urinary dysfunction without urinary difficulty
  • Groin pain relieved by flexing hip and knee
  • Groin pain intensified by extending hip
  • Perspiration
  • Irregular or intermittent fever followed by chills and perspiration
  • May be mass in lower right quadrant of abdomen
  • Aversion to Cold
  • Hard lumps
  • T: Pink
  • C: Thin, white or yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Tight or Wiry and tight or Tight and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Heat
  • Break up Blood Stasis
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Disperse nodules
  • Reduce swelling
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Frequent, dark, turbid, scanty, difficult, urgent and painful urination or
  • Blockage of urine
  • Urination may be red
  • Terminal dribbling or
  • Whitish turbid dripping of urine
  • Maybe fever
  • Sores in mouth, on tongue or throat
  • Dry mouth and throat
  • Maybe urinary retention (severe)
  • Maybe lower abdominal distention and pain (severe)
  • Thirst with a desire to drink
  • A parched throat
  • Severe sore throat
  • Maybe total obstruction
  • Maybe anuria (severe)
  • Dribbling urination
  • Pain in the perineum
  • Maybe be urinary calculi
  • Constipation
  • Eye redness and pain
  • Epistaxis
  • Distending lower back pain
  • Irritability
  • Scorched lips
  • A bitter, sticky taste in the mouth
  • T: Red
  • C: Thick, yellow and greasy
  • P: Slippery and rapid or Smooth and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Relieve Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Numerous, frequent short, choppy urinations
  • Urinary urgency
  • Urinary pain
  • A constant feeling of the need to urinate
  • Turbid, cloudy or yellow urine
  • Possible nocturia
  • Urinary stoppages with lower abdominal pain and distension (severe)
  • Lower abdominal and perineal discomfort and pain
  • Dry, bound stools
  • Abdominal distention
  • Dry, scaly skin
  • Tightness
  • Absence of thirst
  • Maybe an aversion to drinks
  • No fever
  • Condition fails to improve
  • Cold extremities
  • A gray or pale complexion
  • T: Purple
  • C: Greasy and yellow
  • P: Wiry, slippery and rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Disinhibit Dampness
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Unblock the channels
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Extreme pain
  • Local inflammation and swelling
  • There may be copious discharge of pus from the ulcers
  • A burning sensation
  • Fever
  • Thirst
  • T: Red
  • C: Normal
  • P: Rapid
Treatment Principle
  • Clear Heat
  • Resolve toxicity
  • Nourish Yin
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Alleviate pain
Herb Formulas
Points
  • Electro GB-28 - REN-2
  • Ear: Shenmen, Bladder, Kidney, Subcortex, Urethra, Heel
Clinical Manifestations
  • Chronic disease
  • Much retention of  urine
  • Moderate or serious hydrocele in the Kidneys or
  • Functional deficiency of Kidneys
  • Sagging and distending sensation in the lower abdomen
  • Occasional undischarged urination or
  • Scanty and unsmooth urination
  • Mental fatigue
  • Poor appetite
  • Shortness of breath with no desire to speak
  • Low voice
  • Prolapse due to sagging of Qi
  • T: Pale
  • C: Thin and white
  • P: Thready weak
Treatment Principle
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Benefit Qi
  • Reinforce the Center
  • Invigorate Yang
  • Descend turbidity
  • Drain Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
  • DU-20, REN-1, REN-4, REN-6, SP-6, ST-36
    For inhibited urination or desire to urinate without success: + SP-9
    For dribbling urination: + UB-52
    For accompanying Damp-Heat: + SP-9, ST-44
    For sagging pain in the genitals: + moxa LIV-1
    For distention and pain in the lower abdomen, groin and genitals: + LIV-8
    For Food Stagnation : + ST-21
    For accompanying Kidney Qi Deficiency: + KI-3
    For accompanying Kidney Yin Deficiency: + KI-7
    For Heart and Spleen Deficiency: + HT-7
    For severe Qi Deficiency: + SP-3
Clinical Manifestations
  • Acute lower abdominal pain
  • Incontinence of urine
  • Night fevers
  • Delirious speech
  • Irritability
  • Restlessness
  • Thirst
  • May be mania (severe)
  • Dysmenorrhea
  • Amenorrhea
  • Hard stool
  • Dark red complexion
  • Headache
  • Vertigo
  • Tinnitus
  • Insomnia
  • Palpitations
  • Constipation
  • Frequent urination
  • Emotional instability
  • Chills in the waist and feet
  • Tremors
  • Excruciating abdominal pain with cold
  • Black stool
  • May be chills and fever
  • Hemoptysis
  • Hematuria
  • Red eyes
  • Pain and distention of the head
  • Toothache
  • Irregular menstruation
  • Lochioschesis
  • Severe wheezing
  • Distention of the chest
  • T: Red and dry
  • C: Yellow
  • P: Deep and forceful or Choppy
Treatment Principle
  • Drain Heat
  • Break up Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Cold pain in the lower back and body
  • Sciatica
  • Copious urination
  • Extreme heavy sensation in the lower back
  • Absence of thirst
  • T: Pale
  • C: White
  • P: Deep, thready and moderate
Treatment Principle
  • Warm Yang
  • Strengthen the Spleen
  • Dispel Cold
  • Eliminate Dampness
Herb Formulas
Points
Clinical Manifestations
  • Tumor or mass
Treatment Principle
  • Invigorate the Blood
  • Break up Blood Stasis
Herb Formulas
Points