Anal Fistula

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肛周有溃口，按之有索状物通向肛内，纳呆，大便不爽，小便短赤，形体困重；舌红，苔黄腻，脉弦或滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • There is an opening with ulceration around the anus.
  • When pressing, a cord-like tract can be felt leading into the anal canal.
  • Poor appetite.
  • Difficulty with bowel movements and a persistent feeling of incomplete evacuation.
  • Scanty, yellowish urine.
  • Heavy and fatigued body.
  • The tongue is reddish.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
  • The pulse tends to be tight, or slippery and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热利湿

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps clear internal heat, easing heat-related discomfort such as fever, dry mouth, and restlessness.
  • Helps drain dampness and turbidity, relieving sticky heaviness, edema, or excessive secretions.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肛周瘘口流脓，脓质稀薄，按之有索状物通向肛内，皮肤瘙痒，神疲乏力，舌淡、苔薄，脉濡

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The fistula opening around the anus discharges pus.
  • The pus is relatively thin and watery.
  • When pressing, a cord-like tract can be felt leading into the anal canal.
  • Skin itching.
  • Mental fatigue and lack of strength.
  • The tongue is pale.
  • The tongue coating is very thin.
  • The pulse tends to be soft.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

扶正祛邪，温补气血

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps boost the body’s healthy qi and resistance, dispelling internal pathogenic factors.
  • Gently supplements qi and blood to relieve symptoms like aversion to cold, fatigue, and poor complexion.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肛周瘘口凹陷，脓水清稀，按之有索状物通向肛内，舌红少津、少苔或无苔，脉细数无力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The fistula opening around the anus is sunken.
  • The pus is clear and very thin.
  • When pressing, a cord-like tract can be felt leading into the anal canal.
  • The tongue is reddish with very little moisture on its surface.
  • The tongue coating is scanty or almost absent.
  • The pulse is thin, somewhat rapid, and forceless.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

养阴清热

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Helps replenish body fluids and yin, relieving dryness such as dry mouth and throat, night sweats, and restlessness.
  • Helps settle internal heat and deficiency fire, alleviating sensations of heat in the palms and soles, tidal fever, insomnia, and dream-disturbed sleep.

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