Flooding and Spotting / Beng Lou
Updated 2026-08-04
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
A gynecological pattern in traditional Chinese medicine describing uterine bleeding outside the normal menstrual cycle. Sudden heavy bleeding is called flooding, likened to a collapsing dike, while continuous scanty bleeding is called spotting, likened to a leaking roof. Both are attributed to the penetrating and directing vessels failing to hold blood. Treatment follows urgency: flooding is an emergency that requires stopping the bleeding first, while spotting is chronic and calls for restoring the root by tonifying the spleen and kidney. Separating heat forcing the blood from qi failing to contain it is essential.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
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- Emergency sorting: stop the acute blood loss first and restore the root only second. - Root-cause split: separate heat forcing blood from qi failing to contain it. - Reservoir analogy: read chronic leakage as a governance failure, not a mere supply problem of the system.
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The penetrating and directing vessels act as the body's blood reservoir. When heat accelerates the blood, or when qi is too weak to hold it, the reservoir loses control and blood escapes outside its cycle. Acute loss and chronic leakage share the same underlying failure but require opposite sequencing: acute bleeding must be stemmed before anything else, while chronic leakage responds only once the spleen and kidney recover their holding power.
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