Alopecia Areata
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
多数患者发病前有情绪抑郁或波动，毛发逐渐脱落，伴胸闷，善叹息，或喉中如有物阻，或女性月经失调，或伴失眠多梦，神经衰弱、忧郁。舌淡，苔薄，脉沉
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Most people experience low mood or noticeable mood swings before the onset.
- Hair gradually falls out, with increased shedding day by day.
- There is chest tightness and discomfort, often relieved by sighing.
- A sensation of something stuck in the throat, an unclear feeling of obstruction.
- Women may experience irregular menstruation, with abnormal changes in cycle and flow.
- Poor sleep with vivid dreaming, easy fatigue and tension, low mood and depression.
- The tongue appears pale, with a general lack of redness or blood color.
- The tongue coating is thin, with a light and not thick covering.
- The pulse feels deep and weak, not forceful.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝理气，活血生发
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help soothe Liver Qi and regulate Qi flow, relieving discomforts such as chest and rib-side distension, emotional depression, or belching and poor Qi movement.
- May help promote blood circulation and generate Qi and blood, relieving hair loss, scalp discomfort, or a dull complexion.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
病情发展迅速，头发突然成片脱落，多数脱发前头皮忽觉烘热或瘙痒，或伴心情烦躁，情绪不安，晚间失眠多梦，唇色鲜红，舌红，苔薄，脉数或弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The condition develops rapidly.
- Hair suddenly falls out in patches.
- Before hair loss, the scalp may suddenly feel hot or itchy.
- Feeling of irritability and emotional restlessness.
- Insomnia at night with excessive dreaming.
- Lips are bright red.
- The tongue tends to be red.
- The tongue coating is thin.
- The pulse is rapid or taut.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热凉血，养阴祛风
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear heat from the body and cool the blood, relieving discomforts such as fever, irritability, thirst, dry throat, or skin red spots.
- May help nourish yin fluids and expel wind pathogens, relieving dizziness, limb numbness, or skin itching.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
女性产后或久病重病之后，头发呈斑块状脱落，逐渐加重，可互相融合，呈片状脱落，或伴头昏目眩，少气懒言，倦怠乏力，心悸气短，多梦健忘，口唇指甲色白，舌淡，苔薄，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- More common in women after childbirth or prolonged/severe illness, hair loss occurs in patches that gradually worsen and may merge into large bald areas.
- May experience dizziness and blurred vision.
- Shortness of breath when speaking, reluctance to talk, breathing appears weak.
- Easily fatigued and low in energy.
- Palpitations and shortness of breath, more pronounced after exertion.
- Disturbed sleep with many dreams, memory decline.
- Lips and nails appear pale.
- The tongue appears pale.
- The tongue coating is thin.
- The pulse is thin and weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气补血，补虚生发
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help replenish original Qi and nourish blood, relieving weakness, shortness of breath, pale complexion, dizziness, palpitations, etc.
- May help improve weakness and promote hair growth, relieving hair loss, sparse hair, or slow growth.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
脱发病程日久，或新生毛发发根不固，反复脱落，毛发干枯色黄或细软易断，重者头发全部脱落，甚至毳毛、眉毛、睫毛、胡须、腋毛及阴毛均脱落，形成普秃。伴面色不华，头昏目眩，腰膝酸软，耳鸣，失眠，舌淡，苔薄，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Hair loss persists for a long time; newly grown hair is not firmly rooted and falls out repeatedly, making it difficult to stabilize.
- Hair is dry, brittle, yellowish; or thin and easily broken. In severe cases, total hair loss can occur, and even vellus hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, axillary hair, and pubic hair may fall out.
- Complexion lacks luster and appears pale.
- Dizziness and vertigo, more noticeable when standing or moving.
- Soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, more pronounced after prolonged sitting or standing.
- Tinnitus with buzzing sounds, audible even in quiet environments.
- Poor sleep, prone to insomnia, difficulty falling asleep at night.
- The tongue is pale with a thin coating.
- The pulse is deep and thin, lacking strength on palpation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋补肝肾，乌发生发
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help nourish the Liver and Kidney, relieving soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, or blurred vision.
- May help improve hair condition, making hair darker and promoting new growth, relieving hair loss or dry, dull hair.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
脱发日久，头皮脱发处光滑光亮，毛孔不清，或伴头皮时有刺痛，面色晦暗，舌有瘀斑，或舌下紫暗，脉涩滞，或脱发多年，久治不生，无明显症状可辨者
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Long-standing hair loss that does not heal; the bald area has smooth, shiny skin with indistinct hair follicle openings.
- There may be intermittent scalp tingling pain, resembling a prickling discomfort.
- Complexion is dull and lacks luster, appearing dark and unhealthy.
- Purple or dark ecchymoses may be seen on the tongue surface, or sublingual veins appear dark, distended, and prominent.
- The pulse often feels choppy and unsmooth, with an interrupted, irregular beat.
- Or it may refer to cases of hair loss for many years without regrowth, with no obvious accompanying symptoms to differentiate.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，通经活络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, relieving signs such as ecchymoses, pain, or irregular menstruation.
- May help dredge the meridians and smooth the collaterals, relieving limb numbness, joint soreness, or restricted movement.
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