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Acupuncture and moxibustion methods for treating strangury (urinary retention) select Yinqiao (i.e., Zhaohai, KI6), Dadun (LR1), Weiyang (BL39), Taizhong (KI4), Xingjian (LR2), Weizhong (BL40), Yinlingquan (SP9), and Shimen (CV5). ○ For treating painful urinary dribbling (Lin syndrome), select Guanyuan (CV4, moxa 8 fen), Sanyinjiao (SP6, moxa 3 fen or transverse insertion), Yinggu (KI10), Yinlingquan (SP9), Qihai (CV6), Taixi (KI3), and Yinjiao (CV7). ○ For treating stone Lin syndrome, select Guanyuan (CV4), Qimen (LR14), and Dadun (LR1). ○ For treating bloody Lin syndrome, select Qihai (CV6) and Guanyuan (CV4). ○ For treating heat Lin syndrome, select Yinlingquan (SP9), Guanyuan (CV4), and Qichong (ST30). ○ For treating frequent and slippery urination, select Zhongji (CV3) and moxa Shenshu (BL23), Yinlingquan (SP9), Qihai (CV6), Yinggu (KI10), and Sanyinjiao (SP6). ○ For treating enuresis and incontinence, select Yinlingquan (SP9), Yanglingquan (GB34), Dadun (LR1), and Qugu (CV2). ○ For treating pain in the glans penis, select Xingjian (LR2, moxa 30 zhuang); additionally select Zhongji (CV3), Taixi (KI3), Sanyinjiao (SP6), and Fuliou (KI7). ○ For treating leukorrhea (white turbid discharge), moxa Shenshu (BL23); additionally select Zhangmen (LR13), Ququan (LR8), Guanyuan (CV4), and Sanyinjiao (SP6). ○ For women with bladder torsion causing inability to urinate, select Qugu (CV2) and Guanyuan (CV4). ○ For women with pain in the vagina, select Yinlingquan (SP9).

Acupuncture and moxibustion methods: Excessive thirst with drinking water often leads to watery diarrhea (water enters and immediately exits; after evacuation, drinking resumes again). This condition has no medicinal cure; one should moxa Dazhui (GV14) for 3-5 zhuang. ○ For chronic diarrhea lasting three to five years that does not heal, moxa Baihui (GV20) for 5-7 zhuang, which will lead to recovery. ○ For chronic diarrhea and dysentery, moxa Tianshu (ST25) and Qihai (CV6), which can effectively stop diarrhea. ○ For persistent diarrhea and dysentery, moxa Shenque (CV8) for 7 zhuang (or 37 zhuang), and Guanyuan (CV4) for 30 zhuang. ○ For loose stools (watery diarrhea), moxing the umbilicus is the primary method, followed by Sanyinjiao (SP6). ○ For diarrhea and dysentery, moxa Pishu (BL20) according to the patient's age in zhuang, the umbilicus for 20 zhuang, and Guanyuan (CV4) for 100 zhuang, administered in three sessions totaling 14 zhuang. ○ For wind diarrhea (undigested food in stool), select Yinlingquan (SP9), RanGu (KI2), Shanglian of Large Intestine (ST37), and Dachong (LR5). ○ For diarrhea like water, cold limbs, impending pulse disappearance, abdominal pain around the navel, and gradual shortness of breath, moxa Qihai (CV6) for 100 zhuang. ○ For dysentery with abdominal pain and pus/blood in stool, select Dantian (CV6), Fuliou (KI7), Xiaochang (BL27), Tianshu (ST25), and Fu'ai (SP16). ○ For cold dysentery, moxa Guanyuan (CV4) and Qionggu (KI10) each for 50 zhuang. ○ For tenesmus (urgent need to defecate with heavy sensation in the rectum), select Hegu (LI4) and Waiguan (TE5). ○ For persistent dysentery, select Hegu (LI4), Zusanli (ST36), Yinlingquan (SP9), Zhongwan (CV12), Guanyuan (CV4), Tianshu (ST25), Shenque (CV8), and Zhongji (CV3). ○ For various types of dysentery, moxa Dadu (SP2) for 5 zhuang, and Shangqiu (SP5), Yinlingquan (SP9) each for 3 zhuang. ○ For severe constipation with dryness, select Zhaohai (KI6, needle 5 fen, tonify 3 exhales, sedate 6 inhales for immediate relief), Zhigou (TE6, needle 0.5 cun, sedate 3 inhales), and Taibai (SP3, sedation). ○ For fecal impaction, select Erjian (LI2), Chengshan (BL57), Taibai (SP3), Daizhong (KI4), Zusanli (ST36), Yongquan (KI1), Kunlun (BL60), Zhaohai (KI6), Zhangmen (LR13), and Qihai (CV6). ○ For simultaneous obstruction of urination and defecation, select Dadu (SP2), Huangan (likely a typo for Huan Tiao GB30 or similar, but text says Huangan), Shuidao (ST28). ○ For Guan Ge syndrome (vomiting/regurgitation with urinary obstruction), first moxa Qihai (CV6) and Tianshu (ST25) each for 37 zhuang; once vomiting stops, administer Yiyuan San to promote urination. ○ For postpartum women with abdominal distension and obstruction of both urination and defecation, select Qihai (CV6), Zusanli (ST36), Guanyuan (CV4), Sanyinjiao (SP6), and Yinggu (KI10).