Urine and Stool

Question 1

constipation

Answer 1

1. usually due to retention of heat in intestines
2. deficiency of fluid
3. insufficiency of yin-blood
4. yang deficiency and cold congealing fluid
5. qi deficiency

Question 2

diarrhea

Answer 2

1. usually due to damp-heat in large intestine
2. food stagnation in stomach and intestines
3. deficiency cold of spleen and stomach
4. kidney deficiency and decline of ming-men fire

Question 3

abnormal texture of stool - undigested food in stool

Answer 3

1. usually due to deficiency cold of spleen and stomach

2. deficiency of kidney and decline in ming-men fire

Question 4

abnormal texture of stool - alternating loose and dry stool

Answer 4

1. I.B.S.

2. disharmony between liver and spleen

Question 5

abnormal texture of stool - loose stool following dry feces

Answer 5

deficiency of spleen and stomach

Question 6

abnormal texture of stool - purulent bloody stool

Answer 6

usually seen in dysentery

Question 7

abnormal sensation of defecation - scorching sensation of anus

Answer 7

usually seen in diarrhea due to heat or dysentery due to damp heat

Question 8

abnormal sensation of defecation - tenesmus

Answer 8

one of the main symptoms of dysentery

Question 9

abnormal sensation of defecation - sensation of incomplete evacuation

Answer 9

accompanied by yellow, rotten diarrhea: accumulation and stagnation of damp heat

accompanied by sour, rotten, stinking diarrhea: indigestion

Question 10

abnormal sensation of defecation - efflux diarrhea

Answer 10

spleen and kidney yang deficiency (spleen qi sinking)

Question 11

abnormal sensation of defecation - qi prolapse of the anus

Answer 11

1. usually due to deficiency of spleen and sinking of middle qi, which is caused by chronic diarrhea or prolonged dysentery
2. damp-heat in large intestine
3. spleen-kidney yang deficiency

Question 12

profuse urine

Answer 12

1. usually due to cold syndrome and deficient syndrome, deficiency of yang-qi
2. diabetes

Question 13

scanty urine

Answer 13

1. heat syndrome

2. edema

Question 14

frequent urination w/ brownish scanty urine and urgent urine

Answer 14

1. damp heat in the lower jiao

2. U.T.I.

Question 15

frequent urination w/ large volume of clear urine

Answer 15

kidney yang and kidney qi deficiency

Question 16

dysuria or anuria

Answer 16

deficiency syndrome: kidney deficiency

excess syndrome: blockage by pathogenic factors

enlarged prostate gland or kidney stone

Question 17

unsmooth urination w/ pain

Answer 17

usually seen in stanguria syndromes, belongs to damp-heat pouring down

Question 18

dribbling urination, urinary incontinence, enuresis

Answer 18

all belong to insecurity of kidney qi, and bladder failing to regulate urine