Atrioventricular Block
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸，胸闷憋气，心痛时作，面晦唇青，爪甲色暗，肌肤甲错。舌紫暗或有瘀斑，脉迟、涩或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may experience palpitations and an uneasy heartbeat.
- Chest tightness with a sensation of suffocation and difficulty breathing.
- Paroxysmal pain in the precordial area, occurring in bouts.
- Dull complexion, bluish lips, and an overall lack of rosiness.
- Darkish nails that appear lusterless.
- Dry, rough skin that may feel scaly to the touch.
- The tongue appears purplish-dark, possibly with purple stasis spots or petechiae.
- The pulse tends to be slow and rough, or may have irregular interrupted pauses.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，理气通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By invigorating blood, removing stasis, and regulating qi flow, it helps relieve fixed stabbing pain, chest and hypochondriac distension, limb numbness, and coldness associated with blood stasis and qi stagnation.
- By regulating qi and moving blood, unblocking meridians and blood vessels, it smoothens the blood pathways, reduces sensations of distension and blockage, improves mobility, and gradually alleviates pain and stiffness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸气短，胸脘痞满，纳呆，恶心欲呕，泛吐痰涎，或伴有心悸不安，头身困重。舌淡苔白腻，脉迟、滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel palpitations with an unsteady heartbeat accompanied by rapid, shallow, and difficult breathing.
- Fullness and distension in the chest and upper abdomen, as if something is pressing and blocking.
- Markedly reduced appetite, with little interest in eating.
- Nausea may occur, and sometimes there is an urge to vomit without being able to expel anything.
- Repeated regurgitation and spitting of phlegm-drool, with a sticky, unclean sensation in the mouth.
- Or accompanied by palpitations and anxiety, feeling tense and unable to settle down.
- Heaviness and fatigue in the head and body, as if weighed down.
- The tongue appears pale and lacks rosy vitality.
- The tongue coating is white and slimy, making the tongue surface look sticky and moist.
- The pulse tends to be slow and slippery, with smooth but unhurried beats.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
理气化痰，清胆和胃
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By regulating qi movement and resolving sticky turbid phlegm-dampness, it gradually relieves chest and hypochondriac distension, epigastric stuffiness, excessive phlegm, and heaviness in the head.
- By clearing and facilitating the gallbladder and harmonizing stomach qi, it reduces bitter taste, rib-side distension, nausea, retching, belching, and poor appetite, making the stomach area more comfortable.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸不安，胸闷不舒，气短乏力，心痛时作，面色无华，或见唇甲青紫，肌肤甲错。舌质紫暗有瘀斑，脉迟涩或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat, with inner restlessness.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, as if pressed down when breathing.
- Shortness of breath and easy panting accompanied by noticeable fatigue and weakness.
- Paroxysmal precordial pain that comes in waves.
- Dull, lusterless complexion that looks pale.
- Bluish-purple discoloration of the lips and nails.
- Dry, rough skin that feels scaly.
- The tongue is purplish-dark with visible purple stasis spots.
- The pulse is slow and rough or irregular with intermittent pauses.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing the vital qi and boosting physical strength, it gradually alleviates shortness of breath, fatigue, reluctance to speak, and low energy.
- By invigorating blood, removing stasis, and unblocking meridians and blood vessels, it gradually relieves stabbing pain, numbness, distension, stiffness, and cold limbs related to blood stasis and obstruction.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸，胸闷，遇寒加重，畏寒，神倦懒言，面色㿠白，自汗，腰膝酸软，腰冷，形寒肢冷，下肢尤甚，小便不利或清长。舌质淡胖，有齿痕，苔薄白，脉沉细或微
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel palpitations, an unstable heartbeat, and a persistent sense of unease.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, as if being pressed upon when breathing.
- These symptoms are markedly aggravated by cold exposure.
- Aversion to cold and a preference for staying in warm environments.
- Mental fatigue and physical tiredness, with an unwillingness to talk much.
- Very pale complexion lacking rosiness, with a poor appearance.
- Spontaneous sweating even without activity, which becomes more pronounced with slight exertion.
- Frequent soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees.
- Coldness in the lumbar region, often feeling chilly and uncomfortable there.
- General aversion to cold, with cold hands and feet.
- Coldness and discomfort are more pronounced in the lower limbs, often more severe than in the upper body.
- Urination may be unsmooth, or the urine may be clear, copious, and frequent.
- The tongue is pale and slightly enlarged.
- Tooth marks are visible on the edges of the tongue.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, without thick covering.
- The pulse tends to be deep and thin, or may feel very weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温补心肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By warming and supporting heart and kidney yang, and enhancing qi propulsion and metabolism, symptoms such as cold intolerance, cold hands and feet, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, and fatigue may gradually improve.
- By harmonizing the heart and kidneys, stabilizing the mind, and securing qi and blood, palpitations, insomnia with excessive dreaming, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and frequent nighttime urination may gradually improve.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胸闷气短，心悸怔忡，头晕目眩，失眠神倦，口干喜饮，盗汗烦热，甚则晕厥。舌红少苔，脉迟细无力，间有小数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Chest tightness with short, rapid breathing, as if not getting enough air.
- Palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat, sometimes with a sense of fright and alarm.
- Dizziness and blurred vision, feeling as if the surroundings are spinning or floating.
- Difficulty falling asleep or restless sleep, with fatigue and tiredness during the day.
- Dry mouth with an increased desire to drink water.
- Night sweats, accompanied by inner heat, restlessness, and difficulty calming down.
- In severe cases, syncopal episodes with a brief loss of consciousness may occur.
- The tongue is reddish with little or no coating.
- The pulse is slow and thready-weak, occasionally slightly faster.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By nourishing the vital qi and enriching body fluids, it boosts physical energy and gradually alleviates dry mouth and throat, hot flashes, night sweats, and dysphoria with heat sensations.
- By unblocking meridians and harmonizing qi and blood flow, it smoothens circulation and gradually reduces numbness, stabbing pain, spasms, soreness, distension, and restricted movement.
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