Chronic Cholecystitis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：右胁胀痛或隐痛；疼痛因情志变化而加重或减轻。次症：厌油腻；恶心呕吐；脘腹满闷；嗳气频作；舌质淡红，舌苔薄白或腻；脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distension and pain or dull ache in the right rib area, with a feeling of discomfort around the right ribs.
- The pain fluctuates with emotional changes, sometimes worsening and sometimes easing.
- Aversion to greasy foods, feeling uncomfortable when seeing or eating oily dishes.
- Nausea and vomiting, with a churning sensation in the stomach and the urge to vomit.
- Fullness and bloating in the upper abdomen and belly, as if blocked and uncomfortable.
- Frequent belching and acid reflux, recurring and causing discomfort.
- The tongue appears pale reddish with a thin white or slightly greasy coating.
- The pulse feels tight, like a taut string.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝利胆，理气解郁
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Uses methods to soothe the liver and promote the smooth flow and excretion of bile, helping to ease discomfort such as distending pain in the rib area, chest and hypochondrium tightness, bitter taste with poor appetite, nausea, acid reflux, and yellowish urine.
- Uses methods to regulate stagnant qi and relieve emotional depression, helping to promote a more relaxed mood and chest/abdominal comfort, and alleviating chest tightness with frequent sighing, emotional irritability, upper abdominal bloating, and belching.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：胁肋疼痛，或胀痛或钝痛；口苦咽干。次症：身目发黄；身重困倦；脘腹胀满；小便短黄；大便不爽或秘结；舌质红，苔黄或厚腻；脉弦滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Pain in both sides of the rib area, presenting as distension, pain, or a dull ache.
- Bitter taste in the mouth, and a dry, parched throat that lacks moisture.
- Noticeable yellowing of the skin and eyes.
- Overall heaviness and fatigue, feeling sluggish and lacking energy even when moving around.
- Feelings of fullness and bloating in the upper abdomen and belly, as if obstructed and uncomfortable.
- Reduced and yellowish urine with a darker color.
- A sensation of incomplete bowel evacuation, or constipation with difficult defecation.
- The tongue appears reddish with a yellow or thick, greasy coating.
- The pulse feels tight and wiry, somewhat slippery and rapid, giving a hurried sensation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿，利胆通腑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Uses methods to clear internal “Heat” and eliminate excess Dampness, helping to reduce sensations of heat and stickiness, and relieve discomfort such as oppressive heat and fatigue, bitter and sticky taste, heavy body and lack of strength, thick greasy tongue coating, and scanty yellowish urine.
- Uses methods to promote bile flow and unblock the bowels, helping to smooth the qi and ease bowel movements, relieve rib-side distension and pain, chest and hypochondrium tightness, bitter taste with poor appetite, nausea, acid reflux, post-meal fullness, and reduce constipation, abdominal bloating, and pain.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：右胁疼痛，胀痛或刺痛；口苦咽干。次症：胸闷，善太息；右胁疼痛夜间加重；大便不爽或秘结；舌质紫暗，苔厚腻；脉弦或弦涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Pain in the right rib area, manifesting as distension and pain or a stabbing sensation.
- Bitter taste in the mouth, and a dry, parched throat that lacks moisture.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, often accompanied by involuntary sighing.
- The pain in the right rib area becomes more noticeable and uncomfortable at night.
- A sensation of incomplete bowel evacuation, or constipation with difficult defecation.
- The tongue appears purplish and dark, with a thick, greasy coating.
- The pulse feels tight and wiry, or rough and hesitant.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
主症：右胁胀痛，情志不舒；腹胀便溏。次症：倦怠乏力；腹痛欲泻；善太息；纳食减少；舌质淡胖，苔白；脉弦或弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distension and pain in the right rib area, accompanied by emotional upset and a feeling of inner oppression.
- Abdominal distension and tightness, with relatively loose stools and a sensation of incomplete evacuation afterward.
- Fatigue and low energy, feeling physically weak and easily exhausted when performing activities.
- Abdominal pain, often with a constant urge to have a bowel movement.
- Frequent involuntary sighing, as if needing to take a deep breath for relief.
- Reduced appetite, eating little, with a noticeable loss of interest in food.
- The tongue appears pale and enlarged, with a white coating, looking relatively bland.
- The pulse feels tight and wiry, or tight and thready, distinctly perceptible to the fingers.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝健脾，柔肝利胆
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Uses methods to soothe the liver qi and strengthen the spleen qi to boost digestive transformation, helping to relieve symptoms such as distension and pain in the rib area, chest tightness and discomfort, emotional depression and irritability, poor appetite, post-meal bloating, physical fatigue and weakness, and loose stools.
- Uses gentle methods to regulate the liver qi and promote bile flow, helping to smooth both the bile duct and the qi dynamic, alleviating problems such as distending pain in the rib area, chest and hypochondrium tightness, bitter taste with poor appetite, nausea, acid reflux, right upper abdomen discomfort, or yellowish urine.
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