Dr. Liu Youfang's Experience in TCM Treatment of Urolithiasis

摘要

Urolithiasis falls into the TCM category of ‘stranguria with urinary stone’, or ‘stranguria from urolithiasis’. In TCM treatment of this disease, physicians through the ages are mostly in favor of the principle of clearing heat and promoting diuresis to treat the superficiality, and tonifying the kidney to treat the origin. Most of the hospitals in China are presently using this method to treat stones in the upper urinary tract. Though it is effective for