The damp-heat that remains a long time in the body concentrates and transforms into stones or sand.
Symptoms
- Renal colic: movement pains, pain in the lower abdomen and may radiate to the lumbar region. There may be many neuro-vegetative symptoms (vomiting, nausea, sweating, extreme pallor, ...)
- Dysuria: urine with burning sensation, stabbing pain, urination that stops due to obstruction, hematuria (blood in urine)
- Tongue with seborrheic coating, or seborrheic and yellow
- Tight and rapid pulse (with rapid pain)
These patients mainly go to emergency at the hospital.
Treatment
General for all Lin syndromes: Restore Qi Ji of the Bladder.
- BL-22 ( TE: water passages)
- BL-28 (Shu of BL)
- BL-39 (He lower of TE)
- Global: CV-3 (Mu) and LR-2 (if there is pain on urination)
- KI-3, biao li, to help the bladder through KI
In case of renal colic
First auricular therapy: sometimes works better to calm the colic. Prick bilaterally:
- Kidney, bladder and ureter
- Each painful point: prick with 1 Cun needle and stimulate or electro
- Sympathetic nerve point: Calms visceral pain
- Anti-helix abdomen zone
If the ultrasound says there are very large stones, better to go to the hospital to receive ultrasound therapy. In this case mobilizing the calculi would create more pain.
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