03/29/2025
UTI in women
Young female patient came in with prolonged UTI symptoms for over one month. Some key symptoms include burning sensation during urination and reddish-coloured urine. Doctor had tried 3 types of antibiotics on her but none worked. After checking her tongue and pulses, I diagnosed her with lower jiao damp-heat 下焦湿热. After one session of acupuncture treatment, the patient felt so much better with only very mild symptoms left.
Traditional Chinese Medicine has its own unique understandings about UTI, which is know as Lin Zheng (strangury syndrome). There are several types of Lin Zheng, such as blood lin (blood in urine), heat lin (burning pain during urination), gao lin (cloudy white color urine), stone lin (passing stones with pain) or qi lin (difficult or interrupted flow), etc.;
If you suffer from UTI either chronic or acute, I may be able to help you or even point you in the right direction for Chinese herbal medicine.
