Burns and Scalds
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
发热，口渴喜饮，咽干，尿赤便秘。舌红绛而干，舌苔黄或黄糙，或舌质红而干，舌光无苔，脉洪数或弦细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Fever.
- Thirsty with a desire to drink water.
- Dry throat.
- Urine is yellowish-red, and stool is dry and constipated.
- Tongue is deep red and dry, with a yellow or yellow rough coating, or red and dry with a shiny surface and no coating.
- Pulse is flooding large and rapid, or tight, thin and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，养阴生津
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear internal heat and resolve toxins, relieving manifestations such as fever, sore throat, or red swollen sores.
- May help nourish yin fluids and generate body fluids to moisten dryness, relieving discomfort such as dry mouth and tongue, dry sore throat, or bodily heat sensations.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
神志恍惚，嗜睡，表情淡漠，呼吸气微，体温不升，自汗肢冷，舌苔灰黑或舌面光剥无苔，舌质红绛或紫暗，脉微欲绝
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Mental clouding, slow responses, and appears not fully conscious.
- Always wanting to sleep, easily drowsy during the day.
- Facial expression is indifferent, and emotional responses are markedly diminished.
- Weak breathing, very light breath, easily short of breath when speaking.
- Body temperature does not rise; feels cold rather than feverish.
- Often sweats spontaneously, with cold hands and feet that feel icy to the touch.
- Tongue coating is gray-black, or the tongue surface is shiny, slippery and almost without coating.
- Tongue is deep red or crimson, or purple and dark.
- Pulse is extremely faint, almost imperceptible.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
扶阳救逆，益气养阴
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help warm and reinforce yang qi to reverse the pattern of deficiency and decline, relieving critical manifestations such as aversion to cold, cold limbs, mental listlessness, or an almost imperceptible pulse.
- May help supplement healthy qi and nourish yin fluids, relieving discomfort such as fatigue, shortness of breath, dry mouth and tongue, or bodily heat sensations.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
壮热烦渴，躁动不安，口干唇燥，大便秘结，小便短赤；舌红绛而干，苔黄糙或焦干起刺，脉弦数。若火毒传心，可见烦躁不安，神昏谵语；火毒传肺，可见呼吸气粗，鼻翼翕动，咳嗽痰鸣，痰中带血；火毒传肝，可见黄疸，双目上视，痉挛抽搐；若火毒传脾，可见腹胀便结，便溏黏臭，恶心呕吐，不思饮食；火毒传肾，可见水肿、尿血或尿闭
Plain-Language Explanation:
- High fever, irritability, thirst, restlessness, and dry lips.
- Constipation, scanty, yellowish-red urine.
- Tongue is deep red or crimson and dry, with a yellow, rough coating that may be parched, dry and prickly.
- Pulse is tight and rapid.
- If fire toxin transmits to the Heart:
- Irritability, mental confusion, delirium.
- If fire toxin transmits to the Lung:
- Rapid, labored breathing, flaring of the nostrils, cough with profuse noisy sputum, blood-streaked sputum.
- If fire toxin transmits to the Liver:
- Yellowing of the skin and eyes, upward staring eyes, convulsions and spasms.
- If fire toxin transmits to the Spleen:
- Abdominal distention, constipation or sticky foul diarrhea, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and no appetite.
- If fire toxin transmits to the Kidney:
- Body edema, bloody urine or inability to urinate.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清营凉血解毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear heat from the nutritive level and cool the blood, relieving manifestations such as high fever, restlessness, or skin bleeding spots.
- May help resolve toxins from the body, relieving manifestations such as sore throat, red swollen sores, or skin rashes.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
低热或不发热，面色无华，神疲乏力，形体消瘦，食欲不振，自汗，盗汗。舌淡或胖嫩，舌边齿痕，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Body temperature is often low-grade feverish or not feverish.
- Dull, lusterless complexion.
- Mental and physical fatigue, easily tired.
- The person loses weight, with obvious emaciation.
- Poor appetite, no desire to eat.
- Often experiences spontaneous sweating, and night sweats are common.
- Tongue is pale, or the tongue body is puffy and tender with teeth marks on the sides.
- Pulse is thin and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
调补气血，兼清余毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help regulate and supplement qi and blood, relieving discomfort such as fatigue, pale complexion, dizziness, or palpitations.
- Meanwhile, may help clear residual toxins from the body, relieving manifestations such as slow-healing sores, redness, swelling, or sore throat.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
疾病后期，面色萎黄，纳呆食少，腹胀便溏，口干少津，口舌生糜。舌暗红而干，苔花剥或光滑无苔，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Commonly seen in the later stages of the condition.
- Sallow, lusterless complexion.
- Poor appetite, eats little.
- Abdominal distention, loose stools.
- Dry mouth, with insufficient fluids.
- Erosions appear on the oral mucosa and tongue surface.
- Tongue is dark red and somewhat dry.
- Tongue coating is peeled off in patches, or the tongue surface is smooth without coating.
- Pulse is thin and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补气健脾，益胃养阴
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help supplement healthy qi and invigorate the spleen and stomach, relieving discomfort such as poor appetite, fatigue, or abdominal distention with loose stools.
- May help strengthen stomach function and nourish yin fluids, relieving manifestations such as dry mouth and tongue, burning sensation in the stomach, or emaciation and weakness.
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