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Clinical manifestations: Clear, watery, copious urine at night, deep aching cold in the lower back and knees, feeling cold all over especially the lower body, fatigue and low spirits.
Tongue: Pale and puffy with a wet white coating, teeth marks on the edges. Pulse: Deep, slow and weak, especially at the rear position.
Treatment principle: Warm Kidney-Yang and restore the Bladder's ability to hold urine through the night.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Clear dilute urine, dribbling after urination, sore and weak lower back, fatigue and lack of strength, nocturia without marked cold limbs.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, moist body with thin white coat and possible tooth marks. Pulse: Deep, weak and fine, especially feeble at both Chi positions.
Treatment principle: Tonify Kidney-Qi and consolidate the Bladder gate to prevent leakage.
Note: moxibustion especially helpful on BL-23. Direct match with this site's own Kidney-Qi-not-Firm slide — its own symptom list names dribbling after urination and nighttime urination exactly.
Clinical manifestations: Frequent urination with clear pale urine, chronic loose stools or early-morning diarrhea, abdominal bloating after eating, cold lower back and knees, cold hands and feet with aversion to cold.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, puffy body with teeth marks and a white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak and slow, both Chi positions feeble, right Guan weak.
Treatment principle: Warm Spleen-Yang and dispel internal Cold, addressing the digestive root of the fluid imbalance.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct match with this site's own Kidney-and-Spleen-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Frequent pale clear urination at night, feeling of cold in the lower abdomen and back, urinary incontinence or bedwetting, nocturia worse in cold weather, dull aching lower back pain.
Tongue: Pale, puffy and wet with a thin white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak and slow, especially feeble at the rear positions.
Treatment principle: Warm the Bladder, consolidate Kidney-Qi, reduce frequent pale urination through direct warming.
Note: moxa especially effective, particularly on BL-23. Direct match with this site's own Bladder-Deficient-and-Cold slide.
Clinical manifestations: Burning or stinging sensation during urination, dark yellow cloudy or turbid urine, sudden urgent need to urinate even at night, fullness or discomfort in the lower abdomen, thirst with little desire to actually drink.
Tongue: Red body with a yellow greasy coating thickest at the root. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Damp-Heat from the Bladder, relieve burning and urgency, restore normal urination patterns.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Bladder slide.
Clinical manifestations: Scanty dark yellow urine, dry mouth and throat especially at night, night sweats, heat in palms soles and chest, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees.
Tongue: Red, thin body with little or no coating, dry surface, possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney-Yin and clear deficiency Heat, restoring the Kidney's ability to hold fluids at night.
Note: no moxa given the Empty-Heat. Direct match with this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency slide.