Behçet’s Disease
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
起病急，病程短，口腔黏膜及外阴溃疡，灼热疼痛，舌苔黄腻，脉濡数或弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Onset is very abrupt, with symptoms appearing rapidly.
- The course is short and does not last long.
- Ulcers appear on the oral mucosa and external genitalia.
- A burning pain occurs, feeling both hot and painful.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy; the tongue surface looks unclean.
- The pulse feels soft and rapid, or taut like a tightened string and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒化湿和中
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heat: reduce internal “heat signs,” relieving redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
- Resolve toxin: clear inflammatory “toxins,” promote the healing of sores by reducing redness, swelling, heat, pain, and purulent discharge.
- Transform dampness: resolve dampness and turbidity in the body or locally, alleviating heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, abdominal bloating, and greasy sensations.
- Harmonize the middle: regulate the spleen and stomach’s transformation function, relieving epigastric stuffiness, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distension, and improving appetite and digestion.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
口腔溃疡口渴口臭，脘腹痞满，不思饮食，舌质红，苔黄，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Ulcers appear in the mouth, causing discomfort when speaking or eating.
- Thirst is present, along with bad breath that is noticeable when exhaling.
- A feeling of stuffiness and distension occurs in the upper abdomen and abdomen, with an uncomfortable fullness.
- Appetite is poor, with little desire to eat.
- When extending the tongue, it appears reddish, with a relatively red coloration.
- The tongue coating is yellow; the tongue surface looks yellowish.
- The pulse feels slippery and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿消痞散结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heat → reduce internal stagnant heat, relieving redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
- Drain dampness → promote the elimination of dampness and turbidity, relieving heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and difficult urination.
- Disperse stuffiness → resolve chest and epigastric fullness and stagnation, alleviating sensations of blockage, belching, and poor appetite.
- Dissipate masses → disperse hard lumps and nodules, soften phlegm and blood stasis accumulations, easing masses, pulling pain, and tenderness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
口舌、外阴破溃，心烦口苦，舌质红，苔黄，脉弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Ulcers appear in the mouth, on the tongue, and in the genital area, causing pain and discomfort when touched or rubbed.
- There is restlessness and irritability, along with a noticeable bitter taste in the mouth.
- When extending the tongue, it appears reddish overall.
- The tongue coating is yellow; the tongue surface looks yellowish and not clean.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string and rapid, with a tight and urgent sensation under the fingers.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清心泻胃散火解毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear the heart → clear stagnant heat from the heart, relieving irritability, tendency to anger, mouth and tongue sores, and restless sleep.
- Drain the stomach → reduce fire-heat in the stomach, alleviating excessive thirst, bad breath, swollen and painful gums, and dry mouth.
- Disperse fire → scatter internal “excess fire,” reducing redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, and facial flushing.
- Resolve toxin → clear inflammatory “toxins,” promote the healing of sores by reducing redness, swelling, and suppuration.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
溃疡深广，疼痛剧烈，伴发热身痛、舌紫暗、苔黄厚腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Ulcers are large and deep, covering a wide area rather than being limited to small spots.
- Pain is intense and severe, feeling unbearable.
- Fever may occur, along with generalized body aches and discomfort.
- When extending the tongue, it appears purplish and dark.
- The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy; the tongue surface looks unclean.
- The pulse feels slippery and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热祛湿化瘀解毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heat → reduce internal stagnant heat, relieving redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
- Dispel dampness → remove dampness and turbidity from the body or locally, alleviating heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and joint heaviness.
- Transform stasis → resolve blood stasis and improve obstructions, reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, swelling, and bruising.
- Resolve toxin → clear inflammatory “toxins,” promote the healing of sores by reducing redness, swelling, and suppuration.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
溃疡反复发作，手足心热，夜寐梦多，口干口苦，舌质红，少苔，脉象细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Ulcers recur repeatedly, sometimes getting better and then flaring up again, which can be very distressing.
- The palms and soles feel warm or hot to the touch.
- Sleep at night is restless with frequent dreaming.
- The mouth feels dry and bitter, with discomfort when speaking or swallowing.
- When extending the tongue, it appears reddish.
- The tongue coating is scanty and thin, or even barely visible.
- The pulse feels thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋补肝肾养阴清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish the liver and kidneys → enrich the essence, blood, yin, and yang of the liver and kidneys, improving manifestations such as soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and fatigue.
- Nourish yin → supplement the body’s yin fluids, moisten dryness and preserve fluids, relieving dry mouth and throat, tidal fever, night sweats, and irritability with heat sensations.
- Clear heat → reduce internal stagnant heat (“excess fire”), relieving redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and restlessness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
溃疡反复不愈，腰膝酸软，形寒怕冷，舌质淡，苔薄，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Ulcers recur repeatedly and do not heal for a long time, often improving temporarily and then reappearing.
- The lower back and knees feel sore, weak, and without strength, especially when walking or exerting effort.
- The body feels cold and is sensitive to cold, with noticeable discomfort in cold environments.
- When extending the tongue, it appears pale and slightly dull.
- The tongue coating is relatively thin and scanty, not thick or greasy.
- The pulse can only be clearly felt with deeper pressure, and it feels thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温阳散火
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm yang → support and boost yang qi, enhancing the body’s warming and promoting functions, thereby alleviating aversion to cold, cold limbs, fatigue, and loose stools.
- Disperse fire → scatter excessive internal fire-heat, relieving irritability, tendency to anger, thirst, dry mouth, sore throat, and facial flushing, while taking care not to damage yin fluids.
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