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554 THE TREATMENT OF MODERN WESTERN DISEASES WITH CHINESE MEDICINEhave to choose blood-stopping medicinals from more than asingle category.3. If either diarrhea or hemafecia continue for a longtime, enduring disease may have damaged the kidneys,with the kidneys’ loss of control over sealing and storingand the two yin. In that case, one should add astringentmedicinals to the formula. These include Wu Mei(Fructus Mume), Wu Wei Zi (Fructus Schisandrae), He Zi(Fructus Terminaliae), and Rou Dou Kou (FructusMyristicae). However, these should not be added if repletedamp heat evils have not been dispelled.4. Pus in the stools indicate dampness. When blood in thestools is due to heat forcing the blood to move freneticallyoutside its channels, the proportion of pus to blood tells onethe predominance of dampness or heat. Therefore, whenthere are pus and blood in the stools, one should alwaysascertain whether there is more pus and less blood or moreblood and less pus.5. The color of the stools is one indicator of the presence ofheat. In general, evil heat makes the stools dark, while spleenvacuity typically turns the stools lighter than normal.However, if the stools are lighter than normal in color but area bright yellow or mustard color accompanied by either afoul smell or anal burning and irritation, this indicates acombination of spleen vacuity and damp heat. Dark-colored,greenish stools indicate depressive heat.6. Enemas often play an important part in the adjunctiveChinese medical treatment of ulcerative colitis. Enemasmade from decocted Chinese medicinals have the benefits ofA) getting the medicine to the affected area and B) usingstrongly attacking, frequently bitter, cold medicines withoutdamaging the spleen and stomach. For instance, for dampheat brewing and binding in the intestines, one can make anenema by decocting 15 grams each of Ma Chi Xian (HerbaPortulacae) and Ban Zhi Lian (Herba Scutellariae Barbatae)and nine grams each of Di Yu (Radix Sanguisorbae) andHuang Bai (Cortex Phellodendri). Allow the decocted liquidto cool to body temperature and then retain for 20 minutesto one half hour one or two times per day. Typically, suchadjunctive retention enemas are composed of heat-clearing,dampness-eliminating, heat-clearing, toxin-resolving, bloodcooling,bleeding-stopping, blood-quickening, stasis-transforming,and/or securing and astringing medicinals. Spleenand kidney supplementing medicinals are not typicallyadministered per anum.7. If there is blood in the stools, needling Tian Shu (St 25) isinadvisable.