This is an acute infectious disease of the intestines in summer and autumn, with fever, abdominal pain, tenesmus and frequent defecation with a small amount of pus and bloody stool. It Can be divided into 4 types: Patients with dysentery of damp-heat type may suffer from abdominal pain, tenesmus, passage of pus and bloody stool, burning hot sensation in the anus and discharge of dark urine in short streams; patients with dysentery of epidemic and toxic type may suffer from sudden onset, high fever, thirst, tenesmus, passage of fresh purple bloody stool with pus, headache, restlessness and even collapse; patients with dysentery of cold and dampness type may suffer from passage of red, white and mucous stool or pure mucus, distress in the upper abdomen, tiredness and heaviness of the head and body, and cold limbs; and patients with dysentery of deficient cold type may suffer from chronic dysentery, passing thin stool with white mucus, poor appetite, mental tiredness and aversion to cold.
These conditions correspond to bacillary dysentery and amoebic dysentery in Westem medicine.

Recipe 1: Twenty red dates, shepherd's purse 500 g and prickly-ash peel 10 g.
Administration: The baked shepherd's purse is ground to prepare a powder for oral administration of 6 g with a decoction of the other 2 ingredients, twice a day for one week.
Indication: This recipe is used to treat dysentery of deficient cold type.
Recipe 2: Purple amaranth 100 g and rice 100 g.
Administration: A decoction of amaranth is used to make a gruel with rice for breakfast.
Indication: This gruel can clear heat, resolve dampness, eliminate poison, promote circulation of Qi and blood, and release stagnation of food to treat dysentery of damp-heat type.

Recipe 3: Black agaric 30 g and bean curd 250 g.
Administration: The agaric and bean curd are boiled to prepare a soup with some condiments for oral intake, 1-2 times a day.
Indication: This soup can clean the intestines and eliminate poison to treat dysentery of epidemic and toxic type.

Recipe 4: Lily flower 50 g, Machixian (purslane) 50 g and brown sugar 100 g.
Administration: A warm decoction of the above materials is drunk 1-2 times in one day.
Indication: This recipe can produce a good effect to treat dysentery of epidemic and toxic type.
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