Acute Pancreatitis (Acute Phase)
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
中上腹阵痛或窜痛，或向左季肋部、左背部窜痛；腹胀、矢气则舒，可无发热；舌淡红，苔薄白或薄黄；脉弦紧或弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Intermittent pain or wandering pain occurs in the middle and upper abdomen, with the pain intensity fluctuating and causing persistent discomfort.
- The pain may radiate to the left hypochondrium or left back, and is more noticeable when turning or pressing.
- The abdomen feels distended and uncomfortable; passing gas may bring relief and temporarily reduce the bloating sensation.
- Generally there is no obvious fever; the temperature may remain normal throughout, mostly stable.
- The tongue is slightly pale-red with a thin coating, usually thin white and occasionally thin yellow.
- The pulse feels wiry and tight, or exhibits a wiry pulse sensation that is tight and straight to the touch.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝理气通腑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help soothe liver qi and regulate the qi dynamic, alleviating discomforts such as chest and hypochondriac distension, depressed mood, or unsmooth belching.
- May help promote the downward flow of qi and unblock bowel qi, reducing upper abdominal distension, poor appetite, or sensations of abdominal pushing.
- May help promote smooth bowel movements to expel accumulations, relieving constipation, abdominal bloating and pain, or straining during defecation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
上腹胀痛拒按或腹满胁痛；舌质红，苔黄腻或薄黄
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The upper abdomen is distended and painful, worsened by pressure and the patient resists being pressed, or a sensation of fullness that may spread to both hypochondria causing pain.
- The tongue appears red, noticeably red upon protrusion.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, appearing thick and unclean, or only a thin yellow coating is present.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肝胆利湿热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear stagnated heat from the liver and gallbladder, alleviating discomforts such as bitter taste, dry throat, hypochondriac distension, or yellow eyes and skin.
- May help drain dampness, reduce fever, and expel turbid dampness, relieving symptoms like body heaviness, short reddish urine, or thick greasy tongue coating.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹痛剧烈，甚至从心下至少腹痛满不可近；有痞满燥实坚征象
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Abdominal pain is extremely severe, even radiating from the upper to the lower abdomen, accompanied by a distended pushing sensation; pressing makes it worse and the patient resists being touched.
- It manifests as “stuffiness, fullness, dryness, hardness, and firmness”: the abdomen feels congested, obstructed, and dry inside, hard and tight on pressure, and even feels like a hard mass upon palpation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热通腑攻下
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear internal heat, relieving fever, irritability, thirst, dry throat, or facial flushing.
- May help unblock bowel qi and promote its downward movement, reducing upper abdominal distension, unsmooth belching, or a pushing sensation in the abdomen.
- May help purge and promote bowel movements, relieving constipation, abdominal distension, pain, or straining during defecation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部刺痛拒按，痛处不移；或可扪及包块；或见出血，皮肤青紫有瘀斑；舌质红或有瘀斑；脉弦数或涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Abdominal pain feels like needle pricks, worse with pressure and the patient resists being pressed; the pain location is fixed and does not move.
- Sometimes a mass can be felt in the abdomen, which feels hard and uncomfortable when touched.
- Bleeding manifestations may occur, with bluish or purplish skin ecchymosis.
- The tongue is reddish, or may show dark purple spots or ecchymosis.
- The pulse feels wiry, tight, and somewhat rapid, or unsmooth and hesitant.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热泻火，祛瘀通腑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear internal heat and drain excessive fire, relieving fever, irritability, thirst, dry throat, or facial flushing.
- May help remove stasis and promote unblocked bowel qi, reducing fixed stabbing pain, abdominal distension, or discomfort upon pressure.
- May help promote smooth bowel movements to expel accumulations, relieving constipation, abdominal bloating and pain, or straining during defecation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
脐周剧痛；呼吸喘促、面色苍白，肢冷抽搦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Severe pain occurs around the navel, which is intense and unbearable.
- Rapid and tight breathing may occur, feeling short of breath and panting quickly.
- The complexion appears pale, with poor overall complexion and no rosy color.
- The limbs become cold with twitching or spasmodic shaking.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
通腑逐瘀，回阳救逆
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help unblock bowel qi and expel stasis, relieving abdominal distension, pain, constipation, or discomfort on pressure.
- May help warm and support yang qi to reverse the trend of weakness and sinking, alleviating fear of cold, cold limbs, pale complexion, or mental dullness.
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