Adult-Onset Still’s Disease
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
发热，恶风或伴恶寒，全身多关节、肌肉酸楚疼痛，汗出，头痛，口干渴，咽痛，瘰疬肿痛，舌边尖红，苔薄白或薄黄，脉浮紧或数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Fever may occur, with elevated body temperature and a sensation of heat and discomfort.
- Discomfort when exposed to wind, or concurrent aversion to cold and chills.
- Soreness and pain in multiple joints and muscles throughout the body, worsened by movement or pressure.
- Sweating may occur, easily soaking clothes.
- Headache with a sensation of distension and discomfort.
- Dry mouth and thirst with a desire to drink, dryness worsened when speaking or swallowing.
- Sore throat, more uncomfortable when swallowing or speaking.
- Swollen lumps or nodules may appear on the sides of the neck and other areas, accompanied by pain.
- Tongue examination shows redness on the edges and tip.
- Thin tongue coating, white or light yellow.
- Pulse feels floating and tight, or slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏风清热宣肺透邪
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Dispel Wind → Expel external Wind pathogens to gradually relieve headache, body aches, aversion to wind, and migratory soreness.
- Clear Heat → Reduce internal stagnant Heat to alleviate fever, sore throat, thirst, flushed face, and restlessness.
- Ventilate the Lung → Promote the smooth flow of Lung Qi to relieve nasal congestion, cough, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
- Expel Pathogen → Drive pathogens out through the exterior via sweating or eruption, shortening the illness course and reducing discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
高热不退，不恶寒反恶热，关节灼痛，汗出，渴甚喜冷饮，颜面红赤，烦躁不安，或神昏谵语，身体多发红斑皮疹，咽痛。小便黄，大便干结，舌红苔黄或舌红绛少苔，脉滑数或洪数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- High body temperature that persists and is difficult to bring down; continuous fever with no relief.
- No aversion to cold but aversion to heat; feels worse in hot environments.
- Burning pain in the joints, more noticeable with touch or movement.
- Sweating that may soak clothing.
- Intense thirst, with a strong desire to drink cold beverages.
- Flushed and warm face, appearing red.
- Irritability and restlessness, unable to calm down.
- Possible mental confusion or even delirium.
- Red maculopapular rash may appear in multiple areas on the body.
- Sore throat, more uncomfortable when swallowing or speaking.
- Urine is yellow, darker than usual.
- Dry and constipated stools, difficult to pass.
- Tongue examination shows a red tongue with yellow coating, or deep red/crimson tongue with scanty coating.
- Pulse feels slippery and rapid, or flooding and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清气凉血泻火解毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear Qi Level Heat → Clear Heat from the Qi level to relieve fever, thirst, restlessness, and sore throat.
- Cool Blood → Reduce Heat in the Blood level to alleviate red rashes, bleeding tendencies, and deep red/crimson tongue.
- Drain Fire → Reduce exuberant Fire to relieve flushed face, mouth sores, red eyes, and sore throat.
- Resolve Toxin → Clear inflammatory Toxin pathogens to reduce swelling and suppuration of sores, and promote healing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
日晡潮热，关节肿痛，触之灼热或有热感，全身多发皮疹，甚则破溃流脓，口苦，咽痛，瘰疬不消，纳呆恶心，小便黄赤，大便黏腻不爽，舌苔黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Recurrent fever in the afternoon and evening, with body temperature rising in waves.
- Joints may swell and be painful, uncomfortable when moving.
- The affected area feels hot or burning to the touch.
- A widespread rash may appear all over the body.
- In severe cases, the rash may rupture and discharge pus.
- A bitter taste in the mouth.
- Sore throat, more uncomfortable when swallowing or speaking.
- Lumps on the sides of the neck and other areas persist without subsiding for a long time.
- Poor appetite with nausea, feeling like vomiting at the sight of food.
- Urine is yellow to reddish, darker than usual.
- Sticky and unformed stools, with a feeling of incomplete evacuation.
- Yellow and greasy tongue coating; the mouth feels unclean.
- Pulse feels slippery and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿解毒通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear Heat → Reduce internal stagnant Heat to relieve redness, swelling, burning sensation, sore throat, thirst, and restlessness.
- Promote Urination and Drain Dampness → Facilitate the excretion of Dampness and turbidity through urine and sweat, alleviating heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and difficult urination.
- Resolve Toxin → Clear inflammatory Toxin pathogens to reduce swelling, redness, heat, pain, suppuration, and odor, promoting healing.
- Unblock Collaterals → Dredge the channels and microcirculation, promoting smoother flow of Qi and blood, and improving numbness, stiffness, referred pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
午后或夜间发热，盗汗或兼自汗，关节疼痛，或神疲乏力，面色潮红，手足心热，舌红少苔、脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Fever in the afternoon or at night, with a more pronounced rise in body temperature during these periods.
- Night sweats, or spontaneous daytime sweating.
- Joint pain, uncomfortable with movement or pressure.
- May feel fatigued and weak, lacking energy to do things.
- Flushed complexion, with feeling of heat and redness in the cheeks.
- Palms and soles feel hot, warm to the touch.
- Tongue examination shows a red tongue with scanty coating.
- Pulse requires deep pressure to be felt, and is thready.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
甘温益气养阴清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Sweet and Warm → Sweet in flavor and warm in nature, tends to moderate and tonify; helps the spleen and stomach receive nourishment and eases tension and spasmodic discomfort.
- Benefit Qi → Enhance physical strength and organ function, boost Qi, and relieve shortness of breath, weakness, and fatigue.
- Nourish Yin → Replenish Yin fluids and blood, reducing dry mouth and throat, tidal fever, night sweats, and irritability with heat sensations.
- Clear Heat → Reduce internal ‘heat/fire signs’, alleviating redness, swelling, burning, sore throat, thirst, and restlessness.
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