Breast Cancer (Ru Yan)

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

情志抑郁，或性情急躁，胸闷胁胀，或伴经前乳房作胀，或少腹作胀。乳房部肿块皮色不变，质硬而边界不清。舌苔薄，脉弦

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Low mood or easily irritated, chest tightness and hypochondriac distension, breast distension pain before menstruation, or lower abdominal distension and discomfort.
  • A palpable breast mass with normal skin color, firm texture, and unclear borders.
  • The tongue coating is relatively thin.
  • The pulse feels like a taut string upon palpation.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏肝解郁，化痰散结

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help soothe liver qi and resolve stagnation, relieving discomfort such as chest and hypochondriac distension, emotional depression, or frequent sighing.
  • May help resolve phlegm turbidity and disperse masses, alleviating symptoms such as difficult expectoration, throat obstruction, or internal lumps.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

月经紊乱，素有经前期乳房胀痛。或婚后未育，或有多次流产史。乳房结块坚硬，或术后患者伴对侧乳房多枚质软片状结块。舌质淡，苔薄，脉弦细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Irregular menstruation, often with premenstrual breast distension and pain.
  • May be nulliparous after marriage, or have a history of multiple miscarriages.
  • A hard mass may be palpable in the breast; post-surgery patients may have multiple soft, patchy lumps in the contralateral breast.
  • The tongue is pale with a thin coating; the pulse is tight and thin.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

调摄冲任，理气散结

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help regulate the Chong and Ren vessels, alleviating symptoms such as irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, or abnormal vaginal discharge.
  • May help regulate qi movement and disperse masses, relieving discomfort such as chest and hypochondriac distension, abdominal masses, or internal lumps.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

乳房肿块扩大，溃后愈坚，渗流血水，不痛或剧痛。精神萎靡，面色晦暗或苍白，纳食量少，心悸失眠。舌质紫或有瘀斑，苔黄，脉弱无力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The breast mass gradually enlarges, becomes harder after ulceration, with persistent bloody discharge; pain may be absent or very severe.
  • The person may experience listlessness, a dark or pale complexion, and poor appetite with reduced food intake.
  • Often palpitations, restless sleep at night, easy to have insomnia and frequent awakenings.
  • The tongue is purple or has purple ecchymoses, with a yellow coating covering the surface.
  • The pulse feels weak and forceless upon palpation, generally weak and lacking strength.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

调补气血，清热解毒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help nourish and supplement qi and blood, relieving discomfort such as fatigue, pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations.
  • May help clear heat and eliminate toxins, alleviating symptoms such as fever, sore throat, or red swelling of sores.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

多见于晚期或手术、放疗、化疗后，形体消瘦，面色萎黄或㿠白，头晕目眩，身倦乏力，少气懒言，术后切口色黑或流脓，日久不愈。舌质淡，苔薄白，脉沉细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Often seen in advanced stages or after surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy.
  • Significant weight loss.
  • Sallow or pale complexion.
  • Dizziness and blurred vision, easily fainting after prolonged standing.
  • Physical fatigue and weakness, easily tired.
  • Shortness of breath, reluctance to speak.
  • The surgical wound may turn dark or ooze pus, and heal poorly for a long time.
  • The tongue is pale.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white.
  • The pulse is deep and thin.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补益气血，养心安神

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help supplement qi and blood, relieving discomfort such as fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations.
  • May help nourish the heart spirit and calm the mind, alleviating symptoms such as palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, or anxiety.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

手术或放疗、化疗后，神疲肢软，食欲不振，恶心欲吐，肢肿倦怠。舌质淡，苔薄白或腻，脉细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Commonly seen after surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy.
  • Feeling of mental fatigue and weakness in the limbs.
  • Poor appetite, no desire to eat, often with nausea and vomiting.
  • Easy swelling of the limbs, along with drowsiness and fatigue.
  • The tongue is pale.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white, or slightly greasy.
  • The pulse is thin.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

健脾和胃

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help strengthen the spleen and stomach, relieving discomfort such as poor appetite, fatigue, abdominal distension, and loose stools.
  • May help harmonize stomach qi, alleviating symptoms such as upper abdominal fullness, belching, acid reflux, or nausea and vomiting.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

多见于手术、放疗、化疗后，形体消瘦，短气自汗或潮热盗汗，口干欲饮，纳谷不馨，夜寐易醒。舌红少苔，脉细或细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Often seen after surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy.
  • Emaciation, looks significantly thin.
  • Shortness of breath, easy sweating, or tidal fever with night sweats.
  • Dry mouth with desire to drink.
  • Food tastes bland, poor appetite.
  • Light sleep at night, easily awakened.
  • The tongue is red with little coating.
  • The pulse is thin, or thin and slightly rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

益气健脾，养阴清热

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help supplement healthy qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach, relieving discomfort such as poor appetite, fatigue, abdominal distension, and loose stools.
  • May help nourish yin fluid and clear internal heat, alleviating symptoms such as dry mouth, irritability, night sweats, or heat sensation in the palms and soles.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

多见于手术、放疗、化疗后，形体消瘦，神疲乏力。局部或对侧乳房皮肤结节，质硬不移；或骨骼持续疼痛，如针扎锥刺，行动不便；或胸痛，咳嗽，痰中带血或咯血；或鼓胀，面目俱黄，胁痛腹胀，纳少呕恶，溲赤便结；或头痛，呕吐，神昏目糊，抽搐，甚者昏迷

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Often seen after surgery, radiotherapy, or chemotherapy, with marked emaciation, mental fatigue, and weakness.
  • Nodules can be felt on the local or contralateral breast skin, hard and immobile.
  • Persistent bone pain, like a needle or awl prick, making movement difficult.
  • Chest pain with cough, blood-streaked sputum or frank hemoptysis.
  • Abdominal distension with hypochondriac pain, yellow complexion and eyes, inability to eat with nausea and vomiting, dark yellow or red urine, and constipation.
  • Severe headache with recurrent vomiting, mental confusion and blurred vision, possible convulsions, and coma in severe cases.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

扶正祛邪，化浊解毒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help support the body’s healthy qi and dispel pathogenic factors, relieving discomfort such as low energy, easy fatigue, or a lusterless complexion.
  • May help resolve turbidity and stagnation and eliminate toxins, alleviating symptoms such as sticky mouth, poor appetite, or red swelling of sores.

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