Bladder Damp Heat

Bladder Damp Heat TCM Pattern Connections

Below you will find various relationships to the concept of and potential approaches for bladder damp heat.

Content Related to Bladder Damp Heat

Bladder Damp Heat is one of many possible underlying factors from a TCM perspective for health issues such as balanitis, bedwetting, cystitis, gonorrhea, hemorrhoids, incontinence, urinary tract infection (uti), and/or uroschesis.

The above issues are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of issues intermixed from a variety of causal patterns in TCM terms. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

Treatment approaches are often akin to unravelling an onion, with the goal of resolving the root factor involved in the constellation of resulting issues. The current and historical array of issues and signs must be taken into consideration as well as the timing of the onset of each individual aspect.

Related Acupuncture Protocols

When developing an acupuncture protocol a practitioner is very often focusing on the causal diagnoses in Chinese Medicine terms, not on the condition itself. To guide you towards treatment potentials, bladder damp heat is referenced in the following acupuncture protocol sections:

• View HT 8 (Lesser Mansion)
  
      When a loose fist is made where the tip of the little finger rests between the 4th and 5th metacarpal bones.
  
      HT Fire effecting the SI effecting the UB, heat descending to the lower jiao - incontinence, difficult urination, fungal infections, genital itching. Channel issues, sore throat, tongue stiffness, pain along the ulnar aspect of the arms. …
• View KD 10 (Yin Valley)
  
      On the medial side of the knee joint between the tendons of semitendinosis and semimembranosus.
  
      Clears damp or damp-heat in the lower warmer - urgent/difficult urination, genital pain/itching, leukorrhea, uterine bleeding. Main treatment point of Liver Sho pattern (with LV 8) - in Japanese style Five Phase treatment protocol.
• View SP 11 (Winnower Gate)
  
      6 cun above SP 10 on the line connecting SP 12 to SP 10.
  
      Used for a variety of urinary issues related to a collection of dampness/damp-heat - difficult urination/obstruction, retention of urine. Swelling in the groin, pain/itching of the external genitalia.
• View SP 12 (Surging Gate)
  
      Superior to the lateral end of the inguinal groove lateral to the pulsating external iliac artery (joins femoral artery…
  
      Used for a variety of urinary disorders (retention, painful) due to it's functions of draining dampness, clearing heat and regulating urination. Abdominal pain, hernia, hemorrhoids by regulating qi and invigorating blood.
• View ST 28 (Waterway)
  
      2 cun lateral to the AML level with CV 4.
  
      Excess Cold/Damp Issues of the Lower Warmer - retention of urine, inflammations. Gynecological issues of an excess nature - dysmenorrhea, fibroids, cysts. Fertility issues in women, cold in the uterus. Expel either the placenta after bi…
• View UB 22 (Triple Burner Shu)
  
      1.5 cun lateral to GV 5, level with L1.
  
      As Triple Heater Shu this point effects conditions related to imbalances between the upper and lower parts of the body especially those related to water: edema, bloating, ascites, borborygmus, difficult or painful urination, urinary retent…
• View UB 27 (Small Intestine Shu)
  
      1.5 cun lateral to GV line, level with 1st PSF.
  
      Main point for all Small Intestine related issues. Damp heat effecting the bladder (difficult or painful urination, hematuria, dark urine). Damp heat effecting the intestines (diarrhea, hemorrhoids, dysentary). Other lower warmer discha…
• View UB 28 (Bladder Shu)
  
      1.5 cun lateral to GV line, level with 2nd PSF.
  
      Main point for all Bladder issues: from damp heat (painful a/or dark urination), from cold (frequent urination, incontinence). For damp-heat anywhere in the body, combine with SP 9 to expel dampness through urination - diarrhea, constipat…
• View UB 31 (Upper Bone Hole)
  
      On the sacrum at the midpoint of the PSIS and the PML, level with the 1st PSF.
  
      UB 31, UB 32, UB 33 & UB 34 together form the "Eight Liao" points and are all useful for local low back a/or sacrum problems and most genital and urinary related disorders. Of these UB 32 is most often used clinically. As it quickens …
• View UB 35 (Meeting of Yang)
  
      .5 cun lateral to the GV line on either side of the tip of the coccyx bone.
  
      Clears damp heat from the lower warmer - principle point for hemorrhoids, also vaginal disharges/leukorrhea, diarrhea. Trauma a/or pain of the coccyx, deviation. Potentially useful for impotence and/or swellings in the genitals or in the…
• View UB 36 (Support)
  
      On posterior side of the thigh at the midpoint of the inferior gluteal crease (locate in prone position).
  
      Low back pain/sciatica where pain runs down the posterior aspect of the leg. Weakness of the lower limb. Similar functions to UB 35 in clearing damp heat and swellings from the lower warmer - genital pain and swelling, hemorrhoids, semin…
• View UB 39 (Bend Yang)
  
      Lateral to UB 40 on the medial border of the tendon of biceps femoris.
  
      Harmonize the triple warmer, damp heat conditions effecting the lower warmer: disperse for difficult urination, tonify for urinary incontinence. Frees the channel - lumbar pain, lower intestinal distention, hemorrhoids. Swellings in the …