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MENTAL MODEL · M2599

Red and White Dysentery / Chi Bai Li

Red and White Dysentery / Chi Bai Li
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Updated 2026-08-02

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Red and white dysentery (Chi Bai Li) is a traditional Chinese medicine pattern in which dysenteric stool contains both red blood and white pus or mucus. Red is assigned to the blood aspect, indicating deeper damage, and white to the qi aspect, indicating damage at the mucosal surface. When both appear together, qi and blood are affected at once, and the cause is damp-heat or epidemic toxin stagnating in the intestines with qi and blood congealing. It is a heat pattern, treated by clearing heat, resolving toxin, and regulating qi and blood.

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- Damage assessment: read white as surface loss and red as deeper vascular breach. - Depth gauge: use the mix of colors to judge how far the process has penetrated. - Method split: send treatment to the qi level for white and to the blood level for red.

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The intestine defense has two layers: an outer mucosal surface and a deeper vascular bed. Superficial injury sheds mucus and pus, producing white; deeper injury breaks vessels, producing red. Because the colors map onto depth, their ratio tells you how far the pathology has advanced without any need to see the tissue directly. Both colors together means the process has crossed both layers, so qi and blood must be treated together.

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