Incontinence

"Incontinence" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for incontinence.

Content Related to Incontinence

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "incontinence" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "incontinence" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Within TCM, "incontinence" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: bladder damp heat, blood stagnation, kidney jing deficiency, lung qi deficiency, and/or spleen qi deficiency.

The above patterns are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

• View HT 5 (Connecting Li)
  
      1 cun above the wrist crease on the radial side of the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon, on the HT 3 - HT 7 line.
  
      Speech a/or vocal disorders - aphasia (post-stroke), stiff tongue, stuttering, sudden loss of voice, sore throat. Spirit disorders and related physical manifestations, anxiety w/palpitations, arrhythmia, nervousness, depression - although…
• 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 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 …