Chronic Cor Pulmonale

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

心悸，胸闷胸痛，咳嗽咯痰，色黄或白，质黏，气粗而喘，或有哮鸣，或身热微恶寒，微有汗出，口渴。舌红，苔黄或黄腻，边尖红，脉数或滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May feel palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat.
  • Chest tightness with chest pain or discomfort.
  • May cough with expectoration.
  • The sputum may be yellow or white in color.
  • The sputum is thick and sticky, difficult to expectorate.
  • Breathing may be heavy and labored, with a tendency to pant.
  • Wheezing may occur, sounding like a whistle during breathing.
  • May feel hot in the body, with some aversion to cold.
  • May sweat slightly.
  • Thirsty and desire to drink, feeling the need to replenish fluids.
  • The tongue is reddish in color.
  • The tongue coating is yellow or yellowish and greasy.
  • The edges and tip of the tongue are redder.
  • The pulse tends to be rapid, or slippery and on the rapid side.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清肺化痰，降逆平喘

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By clearing stagnated heat in the lungs and resolving sticky phlegm, may help relieve cough with copious yellow, thick sputum, chest tightness, and throat phlegm.
  • By descending rebellious qi and calming panting, may help reduce rapid breathing, coughing, wheezing in the throat, and breathlessness, making respiration smoother.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

胸部紧闷，咳嗽气喘，痰多，痰白而稀，或哮鸣有声，不能平卧，或兼恶寒无汗。舌淡苔白，脉浮紧或细滑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The chest may feel tight and constricted, with discomfort when breathing.
  • May experience cough with shortness of breath and labored panting, clearly struggling to breathe.
  • Sputum volume is markedly increased, with repeated expectoration during coughing.
  • The coughed-up phlegm is white, thin, and watery, not thick or sticky.
  • Or there may be wheezing during breathing, sounding like a whistling noise.
  • Unable to lie flat; lying flat makes the discomfort worse.
  • Or may have aversion to cold without sweating, worse when exposed to cold.
  • The tongue is pale in color, with a white coating, the tongue surface appears whitish.
  • The pulse feels floating and tight, or thin and slippery.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏风散寒，温肺化饮

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By dispelling wind, expelling cold, and relieving the exterior to open the orifices, may help gradually relieve discomfort such as aversion to cold, fever, headache, body aches, nasal congestion, and runny nose.
  • By warming lung yang and resolving retained fluids, may help gradually reduce coughing with copious clear, thin sputum, wheezing, chest tightness, and throat phlegm sounds, making breathing smoother.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

心悸怔忡，胸闷胸痛，疼痛如刺，痛处不移，面淡而晦暗，神疲乏力，气短懒言，唇甲发绀。舌质淡或暗紫，舌下脉络紫暗迂曲，脉细涩无力，或有促结代

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May feel palpitations with an unsettled heartbeat, often with a sense of alarm or fright.
  • Chest feels tight and uncomfortable, accompanied by chest pain.
  • The pain is sharp and stabbing, like a needle prick, unbearable.
  • The pain location is relatively fixed and does not radiate to nearby areas.
  • The complexion is pale and dull, lacking a rosy, healthy color.
  • Mentally fatigued and physically weak, quickly losing energy and motivation.
  • Shortness of breath, reluctance to speak much, showing a lack of desire to open the mouth.
  • Lips and fingernails are bluish or purplish, appearing lacking in blood color.
  • The tongue is pale or dark purplish, not bright red.
  • The sublingual veins are dark purple, distended, and clearly visible.
  • The pulse is thin, rough, and forceless, lacking strength.
  • Sometimes the pulse may be irregularly rapid or have intermittent pauses.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补益心肺，活血化瘀

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By tonifying qi of the heart and lungs and improving nourishment, may help gradually relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, palpitations, chest tightness, and a tendency to sweat.
  • By moving blood, resolving stasis, and unblocking meridians and vessels, may help reduce fixed stabbing pain, numbness, cold sensations, chest tightness, and distending pain associated with blood stasis.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

心悸怔忡，胸闷，形寒肢冷，面浮，下肢水肿，腹胀濡泄，小便不利，面唇青紫。舌胖质暗，苔白滑，脉沉细或促

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May feel palpitations with an unsettled heartbeat, occasionally with a sense of alarm or fright.
  • The chest feels tight and uncomfortable, breathing does not feel smooth.
  • There is aversion to cold, with cold hands and feet being more pronounced.
  • The face appears bloated and swollen, with a clear sensation of puffiness.
  • Edema in the lower limbs, with legs and feet feeling swollen, heavy, and uncomfortable.
  • Abdominal fullness and discomfort, with loose stools and a tendency to diarrhea.
  • Urination is not smooth, straining and unsatisfactory.
  • The complexion and lips are bluish or purplish, lacking rosy color.
  • The tongue is rather enlarged and darkish in color, not bright red.
  • The tongue coating is white and moist or slippery, appearing somewhat greasy.
  • The pulse is only perceptible on deep palpation and tends to be thin, or rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

温补心肾，活血利水

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By warming and supporting heart yang and kidney yang, enhancing driving force and metabolism, may help gradually relieve aversion to cold, cold hands and feet, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, and fatigue.
  • By moving blood, resolving stasis, and promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, may help gradually reduce body edema, lower limb swelling, and difficult urination, along with associated heaviness, fatigue, and chest tightness.

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