1 Syndrome of large intestinal fluid consumption
Syndrome of large intestinal fluid consumption refers to the symptoms of retention of dry feces and difficulty in defecation due to consumption of large intestinal fluid and inhibited transportation. This syndrome is usually caused by congenital yin deficiency, or by insufficiency of blood in the aged, or by excessive vomiting and diarrhea, or by consumption of yin due to chronic disease, or by non-restoration of consumed fluid at the advanced stage of febrile disease, or by excessive hemorrhage, etc.
Clinical manifestations- Dry feces and difficulty in defecation, defecation once in several days, dry mouth and throat, or dizziness and halitosis, reddish tongue with scanty fluid, yellow and dry tongue fur, as well as thin and unsmooth pulse. Such symptoms are usually seen in disturbance of intestines, habitual constipation, chronic atrophic gastritis, esophagus cancer, stomach cancer and intestinal cancer as well as the rehabilitative stage of various infectious diseases.
Analysis of the symptoms: Dry feces and difficulty in defecation, defecation once in several days are caused by consumption of large intestinal fluid, loss of moisture in the large intestine and its function in transportation; dry mouth and throat are caused by consumption of fluid and loss of moisture; dizziness and halitosis are caused by stagnation of large intestinal qi and disturbance of lucid
yang by upward adverse flow of turbid qi; reddish tongue with scanty fluid, yellow and dry tongue fur, as well as thin and unsmooth pulse are the signs of consumption of yin fluid and endogenous dry-heat.
Key points for syndrome differentiation. This syndrome is marked by retention of dry feces and difficulty in defecation as well as manifestations of loss of fluid.
