Chronic Diarrhea
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
大便时溏时泻，反复发作，饮食稍有不慎，大便次数增多；伴饮食减少，脘腹胀闷不舒，面色少华，肢倦乏力；舌质淡，苔白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stools are sometimes loose and sometimes watery, with recurrent episodes; even slight dietary indiscretion can trigger increased frequency.
- Reduced food intake and poor appetite, with a markedly decreased desire to eat.
- Persistent stuffy and bloated sensation in the upper abdomen and abdomen, causing ongoing discomfort.
- Pale, lustreless complexion, looking somewhat bloodless.
- Easily fatigued and weak limbs; often lacking energy and motivation.
- The tongue appears pale and light-colored overall.
- The tongue coating is white, with a layer of white fur on the surface.
- The pulse feels thin and weak, lacking strength upon pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，化湿止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- It regulates the spleen’s transformation and transportation while supplementing the body’s qi, helping digestion become stronger and more stable.
- It helps resolve and drain dampness from the body, relieving diarrhea and reducing related discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
泄泻腹痛，每因抑郁恼怒或情绪紧张而诱发，腹痛欲泻，泻后痛减；平素伴胸胁胀闷，嗳气食少，矢气频作；舌苔薄白或薄腻，脉细弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Diarrhea accompanied by abdominal pain, causing significant discomfort in the belly.
- These symptoms are often triggered by depressed mood, anger, or emotional stress.
- The abdominal pain comes with an urgent need to defecate, and the pain tends to ease after bowel movement.
- There is often distension and stuffiness in the chest and rib-sides, feeling uncomfortable as if being pressed.
- Frequent belching, poor appetite, and a weak desire to eat.
- Increased flatulence, with frequent need to pass gas in daily life.
- The tongue coating tends to be thin and white, or thin but greasy-looking.
- The pulse feels thin and wiry like a taut string, with a taut tactile sensation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
抑肝缓急，扶脾止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- It helps restrain the hyperactive liver qi and relieve the sense of tension and urgency.
- It supports the spleen’s function to help relieve diarrhea and reduce related discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
泄泻多在黎明之前，脐腹作痛，继则肠鸣而泻，完谷不化，泻后则安；伴形寒肢冷，腹部喜暖，腰膝酸软；舌质淡，苔白，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Diarrhea often occurs before dawn; typically there is an urgent need to use the toilet as daybreak approaches.
- Pain around the navel and abdomen, followed by rumbling intestines and diarrhea.
- Undigested food remnants can be seen in the stool, looking like intact grains.
- After defecation, the abdomen feels more settled, and discomfort is noticeably reduced.
- Often sensitive to cold, with cold hands and feet, and discomfort worsens when exposed to coolness.
- The abdomen feels more comfortable with warmth, and discomfort is somewhat relieved when warmth is applied.
- The lower back and knees feel sore and weak, easily lacking strength during activity.
- The tongue appears pale and light-colored overall.
- The tongue coating is white, with a visible white fur layer on the surface.
- The pulse feels deep and thin, lacking sufficient strength upon pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温肾健脾，固涩止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- It warms and tonifies kidney qi while invigorating the spleen, making the spleen’s transformation and transportation stronger and more stable.
- It helps consolidate and astringe to relieve diarrhea and reduce related discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
泻而不爽，大便色黄而臭；伴腹痛，烦热口渴，小便短赤，肛门灼热；舌质红，苔黄腻，脉濡数或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Diarrhea with a sensation of incomplete evacuation, feeling not quite clean or comfortable after bowel movement.
- Stools are yellowish and foul-smelling, noticeably more unpleasant than usual.
- Accompanied by abdominal pain, with cramping episodes that are distressing.
- There is a sensation of bodily heat and irritability, with thirst and a constant desire to drink water.
- Urine output is scanty and dark yellow, with shorter voiding times.
- A burning sensation in the anus, with hot and uncomfortable feeling during defecation.
- The tongue appears red, looking redder overall.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, making the surface appear sticky.
- The pulse feels soft and rapid, or slippery and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，化湿止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- It helps clear heat and toxins from the body, promoting a cooler, more balanced state.
- It helps resolve and drain dampness from the body, relieving diarrhea and reducing related discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
大便稀溏，久泻不已，肛门坠胀，甚则脱肛，少气乏力，面色萎黄，舌淡脉虚
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stools are loose and slushy, noticeably thinner than usual.
- Chronic diarrhea that lingers and keeps recurring without improvement.
- A bearing-down and distending sensation in the anus, feeling like being pulled downward.
- In severe cases, rectal prolapse may occur.
- Easily short of breath and mentally fatigued, with an overall sense of weakness.
- Sallow complexion with little lustre, appearing bloodless.
- The tongue appears pale and light-colored overall.
- The pulse feels weak, lacking strength upon pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补中益气，升阳止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- It regulates the middle burner and supplements the body’s qi, making qi more sufficient and the overall condition more stable.
- It helps raise yang qi to relieve diarrhea and reduce related discomfort.
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