» conventional diagnoses: acute colitis; acute dysentery
» etiology: interior Heat caused by chronic worry and anxiety combined with excessive consumption of hot and greasy foods
signs and symptoms
signs and symptoms:
fever
sweating (which does not reduce fever)
thirst without desire to drink
stiffness of chest and epigastrium
abdominal pain
urgent need to defecate
diarrhea with blood and mucous in stools
stools with offensive odor
burning in anus
dark scanty urine
feeling of heaviness in body and limbs
» pulse: slippery, rapid
» tongue: red with sticky yellow coating
course and prognosis
» principle of treatment: resolve Damp; disperse Heat; stop diarrhea
differential diagnosis
footnotes