white diarrhea

1. White dysentery, a disease name. Dysentery with passage of white mucus or pus in the stool. In ancient times, it was called white stagnant dysentery. Clinical differentiation between cold and heat is required. 2. In Volume 59 of Taiping Shenghui Fang: "White dysentery is caused by intestinal deficiency with cold qi attacking it, struggling within the intestines, causing fluids to stagnate and become white, hence white dysentery." Symptoms include stool resembling jelly or nasal discharge, accompanied by abdominal pain, tenesmus, inability to eat, clear urine, or cold extremities. It is caused by cold-dampness stagnation and injury to spleen yang. Treatment should focus on warming the middle and resolving dampness; formulas such as Danggui San, Chushi Tang, and Shibu Tang may be used. This condition is commonly seen in chronic bacillary dysentery and chronic allergic colitis. If symptoms include white stools with much mucus and pus, abdominal pain, tenesmus, and reddish and difficult urination, it belongs to damp-heat. According to Volume 7 of Zhangshi Yitong: "At the onset of white dysentery, with tenesmus and frequent urge to defecate, but passing little, and abdominal urgency recurring soon after rising, this is all caused by damp-heat stagnation." Treatment should focus on clearing heat and removing dampness, using Weiling Tang plus Muxiang and Sharen, or Xianglian Wan, Huangqin Wan, etc.