TCM Constipation
This Zang-Fu organ receives water from the Small Intestine, reabsorbs some fluids and excretes stools.
What is the Large Intestine?
This duct conveys bile from the liver and gallbladder to the second part of the duodenum.
What is the common bile duct?
Stool is green or like chopped grass, better with being carried.
What is Chamomilla?
This sign indicates peritoneal inflammation and worsens abdominal pain with sudden release of deep palpation
What is rebound tenderness?
Difficult defecation with great effort confirmed by a feeling of exhaustion after the bowel movement indicates a deficiency in this vital substance.
What is Qi (or Yang)?
This sphincter regulates bile flow into the duodenum.
What is the sphincter of Oddi?
Stool is formed at beginning, then soft or watery; bloating with LOUD rumbling and fermentation with irregular diarrhea
This condition presents with RUQ pain, fever, and Murphy's sign
What is acute cholecystitis?
This acupuncture point which is located on the dorsum of the hand at the midpoint of the second metacarpal bone close to its radial border clears Heat in the Large Intestine and moves the stools.
What is LI4?
These three hepatic veins drain directly into this major vessel
What is the inferior vena cava?
Stool is mucousy-green, sour, purulent, offensive, metallic odour. CORROSIVE diarrhea with feeling that they will GET DONE. TENESMUS NOT relieved by stool.
What is Mercurius corrosivus?
This condition causes LLQ pain and altered bowel habits.
What is diverticulitis?
This can cause constipation with stools shaped like pebbles but not dry, desire to open the bowels but difficulty in doing so, belching, abdominal distension, irritability.
Tongue: may be of a normal colour or slightly Red on the sides.
Pulse: Wiry
This ligament connects the liver to the anterior abdominal wall
What is the falciform ligament?
PROFUSE, EXPLOSIVE, FETID diarrhea with MUCH flatus and sputtering
What is Podophyllum peltatum?
This condition presents with post-prandial abdominal pain, also referred to as "intestinal angina" and typically resolves within 2 hours after eating
What is chronic mesenteric ischemia?
This TCM Herbal Formula contains rhubarb, a strong purgative, that can treat interior cold causing constipation.
What is Da Huang Fu Zi Tang?
This embryological structure becomes the round ligament of the liver
What is the umbilical vein?
SEVERE, sometimes PROJECTILE vomiting, often with diarrhea. Vomiting accompanied by COLD perspiration, especially on the forehead.
What is Veratrum album?
This metabolic condition presents with abdominal pain, porphyrins in urine, and neurological symptoms.
What is acute intermittent porphyria?