Chinese medicine treatment of urine discoloration Normal people’s fresh urine is light yellow, and the shade of its color changes with the amount of drinking water. However, the color of urine can also change when taking certain medications. Knowing which drugs have an effect on urine color change can avoid unnecessary panic. Drugs that affect the color change of urine are as follows: 1, can make the urine become dark yellow to brown drugs furazolidone, furotoxin (furazolidin), sulfonamides, enquinones, chloroquine, primaquine, pummeloquine, senna and so on; 2, can make the urine yellow or orange-yellow drug xanthophyll, vitamin B complex, tetracycline, vitamin B2, rhubarb, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a grain of Dan, compound rhubarb tablets; 3, can be Rifampicin, acetanilide, phenytoin sodium, chlorpromazine, phenylpeptide, phenylsuccinate, phenazone, phenazone, fluoro-phenazone, salicylic acid, etc.; 4. Methylene blue, amphotericin, indomethacin, etc.; 5. Metronidazole, methyldopa, levodopa, quinine, ferric iron, iron sorbitol, etc., that can cause urine to be dark black. Due to the normal use of medication and lead to changes in urine color, such as no abnormal feeling, generally stop the drug 2-3 days after the disappearance of their own, so do not have to see the urine color change and worry. It should be noted that not taking the above drugs, and urine color changes, should go to the hospital to check. Urinary tract infection belongs to the Chinese medicine “gonorrhea” category, Chinese medicine on the definition of the disease as “frequent urination, short, dripping stinging pain, abdominal constriction, pain leading to the waist and abdomen of the disease”. “Heat” is extremely important in the development of this disease, either for dampness heat, or for depression heat, or for deficiency heat, always related to “heat”. Because of this, “Danxi Xinfa” puts forward the idea that “there are five types of lymph, all of them belong to heat”, which has been praised by later generations. However, we have to face up to the recurrent nature of this disease. Because of this characteristic, it can cause long illness and injury to the positive, resulting in the mixture of deficiency and reality, and the treatment needs to drive away the evil and support the positive, which is also the reason why Chao Yuanfang’s “Essay on the Origin and Criteria of Various Diseases – Symptoms of Gonorrhea” puts forward the idea that “all gonorrhea is caused by the deficiency of the kidneys and the heat of the bladder”. The organic combination of the above two points of view is also the main theoretical cornerstone of Chinese medicine in the treatment of urinary tract infections nowadays, which should not be ignored. Damp-heat of the bladder Symptoms: frequent urination, short, stinging pain, dripping, urgent burning, yellowish red drowning, abdominal constriction and distension, or fever, cold, bitter and vomiting, or abdominal pain and refusal to be pressed, constipation, red tongue, yellowish greasy moss, and slippery pulse. Pathogenesis: Eating hot, fat and sweet products, or excessive alcoholism, resulting in dampness and heat, injected into the bladder; or uncleanliness of the lower vagina, dampness, heat and filth poisonous evils invade the bladder, resulting in dampness and heat; or liver and gallbladder dampness and heat downstream can make dampness and heat condensation in the lower Jiao, the bladder qi is unfavorable, issued for the gonorrhea. Even because of the damp-heat blazing, can burn the veins, forcing the blood to travel, can lead to blood with the urine; in addition to the damp-heat for a long time, tormented urine, day after day, can be formed into gravel; at the same time, damp-heat accumulation, bladder qi unfavorable, can not be separated from the turbid, can also lead to lipid with the urine and out. Treatment: clearing away heat and removing toxins, promoting dampness and clearing away drenching. Prescription: through the lymphatic soup: money grass 30 grams, sea gold sand 20 grams, 12 grams of gold, preventing 12 grams, 12 grams of diarrhea, 12 grams of wood through the Tongcao 10 grams, Qu Mai 12 grams, 12 grams of plantain, 12 grams of Bianzhu, talcum stone 30 grams, 12 grams of gardenia, 6 grams of rhubarb, 10 grams of lamps, 6 grams of licorice, decocted in water. Wuling Pill and Clearing Turbidity Pill are taken orally. Liver Depression and Qi Stagnation Symptoms: astringent and painful urination, incomplete leaking, abdominal distension and pain, thin white moss, heavy and stringy pulse. In the case of concurrent deficiency, it may be manifested as astringency when urinating, abdominal distension, residual leakage of urine, white face, pale tongue, and weak and thin pulse. Pathogenesis: Because of emotional disharmony, anger and injury to the liver, the liver is not detoxification; or the gas is depressed in the lower burner, long-term depression and fire, through the bladder. All can lead to liver qi stagnation, bladder qi unfavorable, hair for this disease. Treatment: relieve qi and channel dampness to dispel turbidity. Formula: Shu Liver and Dampness Relieving Tang: 12 grams of Chai Hu, 12 grams of Yu Jin, 12 grams of Gentian Herb, 12 grams of Scutellaria Baicalensis, 3 grams of Sinking Fragrance, 12 grams of Tangerine Peel, 15 grams of Angelica Sinensis, 15 grams of Paeonia lactiflora, 6 grams of Glycyrrhiza Uralensis, 12 grams of Shi Wei, 15 grams of Dong Qi Zi, 15 grams of Slippery Stone, 15 grams of Wang Bu Liuhang, 12 grams of Qing Pi, 10 grams of Wu Yao and 12 grams of Red Peony. Shu Liver Pill and Jin Sha Pill are taken orally. Deficiency of Spleen and Kidney Symptoms: Urine is not very red and astringent, but dribbling, sometimes feeling astringent and stagnant in urine, starting and stopping at times, occurring when there is labor, lumbar soreness and weakness of knees, fatigue, pale tongue, thin and weak pulse. Pathogenesis: prolonged gonorrhea, dampness and heat depletion of vital energy; or over-exertion, indolence in the room; or old age, prolonged illness, frailty, can lead to deficiency of the spleen and kidneys. Spleen deficiency and Qi deficiency, Qi deficiency subsidence; or kidney deficiency and the lower yuan is not solid, the kidney is not solid, can not restrain the lipid, lipid injection, with the urine out; or kidney deficiency and yin deficiency fire, fire and heat burns the veins, the blood with the urine; or the disease for a long time to hurt the positive, in the event of labor that is the issuer, the issuance of the gonorrhea. Treatment: Strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidney, clearing away dampness and heat. Formula: tonifying the kidneys and promoting dampness soup: 12 grams of bone marrow, 12 grams of Chi Yan, 15 grams of Sha Yuan Zi, 12 grams of raspberries, 12 grams of motherwort, 12 grams of cypress, 15 grams of raw land, 20 grams of yam, 15 grams of cornelian cherry meat, 12 grams of mudanpi, 15 grams of poria, 12 grams of ze laguo, 20 grams of golden cherry, 15 grams of plantain, 15 grams of talc, 20 grams of Coix lacryma-jobi, 20 grams of Astragali, 6 grams of licorice, decocted with water. Zhi Bai Wan and Pearl Pill should be taken orally. Blood-Heat Paranoia Inflammation Acute and chronic glomerulonephritis, acute and chronic pyelonephritis, acute cystitis, urethritis, tuberculosis of urinary system, mycobacterial infection of urinary system. Stones Stones in the renal pelvis, ureter, bladder, urethra, any part of the renal pelvis, ureter, bladder, urethra, when the stone moves to break the epithelium of the urethra, it is easy to cause hematuria and also easy to secondary infection. Large stones can cause urinary tract obstruction or even cause renal impairment. Tumor Malignant tumors in any part of the urinary system or malignant tumors in neighboring organs can cause hematuria when they invade the urinary tract. The main manifestation of hematuria is the change of urine color, in addition to the normal color of microscopic hematuria, hematuria according to the amount of bleeding and different colors. The color of urine is light red like flesh-washing water, suggesting that the amount of blood per liter of urine is more than 1 mL.When the bleeding is serious, the urine can be in the form of blood. When the kidneys bleed, the urine and blood mix evenly, the urine is dark red; bladder or prostate bleeding urine color is bright red, sometimes there are blood clots. Treatment: clearing heat and cooling blood, inducing dampness to stop bleeding. Prescription: Clearing heat and cooling blood soup: 30 grams of raw earth, 12 grams of dandylion, 30 grams of mao root, 20 grams of artichoke, 15 grams of lotus root, 15 grams of charcoal of ground elm, 12 grams of charcoal of blood, 15 grams of charcoal of palmarosa, 20 grams of Gongying, 20 grams of forsythia, 12 grams of cypress, 12 grams of Shiwei, 20 grams of slippery rock, 5 grams of amber, 3 grams of panax ginseng, decocted with water. Baiyao and Urokang are taken orally.