Chronic Heart Failure
- Heart-Lung Qi Deficiency Pattern
- Qi and Yin Deficiency Pattern
- Qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis Pattern
- Yang Deficiency with Water Retention Pattern
- Heat-Phlegm Obstructing Lung Pattern
- Cold-Phlegm Obstructing Lung Pattern
- Yin Exhaustion and Yang Collapse Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
气短喘促，心悸咳嗽，胸闷，乏力，动则加剧，舌淡，苔薄白，脉沉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May experience shortness of breath, often feeling unable to catch one’s breath.
- May experience palpitations with an unsettled heartbeat sensation.
- May have a recurrent cough.
- Chest tightness and constriction with uncomfortable breathing.
- Easily fatigued, running out of energy quickly when doing things.
- The above discomfort significantly worsens upon exertion or physical activity.
- The tongue appears pale and less rosy.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, not thick.
- The pulse feels deep and weak, lacking strength upon palpation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益心肺
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By nourishing heart qi and blood, it may help make the heartbeat stronger and steadier, relieving discomfort such as palpitations and chest tightness.
- By boosting qi and moistening the lungs, it may help improve breathing and stamina, reducing shortness of breath, fatigue, cough, and wheezing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸气短，五心烦热，失眠多梦，目眩乏力，口干舌燥，舌红，苔少或无苔，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat, accompanied by shortness of breath.
- May feel heat in the palms, soles, and chest, along with inner restlessness and irritability.
- Difficulty falling asleep or waking up easily at night, often with vivid dreaming.
- May experience dizziness or blurring of vision, along with marked fatigue and weakness.
- May feel dry mouth with a desire to drink, and the tongue feels dry and parched.
- The tongue appears redder than usual.
- The tongue coating is scanty or absent, making the tongue surface look smooth.
- The pulse feels thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing the body’s genuine qi and physical strength, it may help increase energy, gradually reducing shortness of breath, fatigue, palpitations, and spontaneous sweating.
- By nourishing body fluids and yin, it may help relieve deficiency-heat discomfort such as dry mouth and throat, pent-up heat, night sweats, and insomnia, making the internal environment more moist and stable.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸怔忡，动则加剧，胸胁作痛，痛如针刺，痛处固定，面青唇暗，舌质紫暗或有瘀斑，舌下络脉曲张，脉涩或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations, an unsettled heartbeat, or even a sense of fright and alarm.
- These discomforts significantly worsen upon exertion or physical activity.
- May experience stabbing pain in the chest and rib sides, with a fixed location that does not shift.
- The complexion appears bluish-dark, and the lips tend to be dark.
- The tongue appears purplish-dark, or purple ecchymotic spots may be visible.
- The sublingual veins are noticeably distended and tortuous.
- The pulse feels rough and unsmooth, or may be intermittent and irregular, stopping and starting.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气活血利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing the body’s genuine qi and physical strength, it may help increase energy, gradually improving shortness of breath and fatigue.
- By promoting blood circulation and dispersing stasis, it may help improve the flow of qi and blood, reducing pain and sensations of distension and tightness.
- By assisting water metabolism and eliminating excess fluids, it may help gradually alleviate edema and heaviness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸怔忡，喘促，肢体浮肿，小便不利，恶寒肢冷，腹胀濡泄，舌淡，苔薄白滑，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat, sometimes with a sensation of fright and alarm.
- May experience rapid breathing, feeling that air is insufficient.
- The limbs may become swollen, and the hands and feet appear puffy and heavy.
- Urination may be difficult, with scanty output or straining.
- Marked sensitivity to cold, with cold hands and feet, and a chilly sensation in the limbs.
- Abdominal distension and discomfort, with loose, easily occurring stools.
- The tongue appears pale and not sufficiently rosy.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, and the tongue surface appears relatively moist and slippery.
- The pulse feels deep and thin, with relatively weak force.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温阳利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By warming and supporting yang qi to dispel internal cold-dampness, it may help invigorate the body’s transformative functions.
- By promoting fluid metabolism and eliminating excess water, it may help relieve difficult urination and edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
发热口渴，胸闷胸痛，心悸咳喘，咯痰黏稠，气粗而喘，或有哮鸣，鼻扇息灼，舌红，苔黄，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May develop fever with dry mouth and thirst, wanting to drink more water.
- The chest may feel stuffy and uncomfortable, accompanied by pain and distress in the chest.
- May feel palpitations with an unsettled heartbeat, along with cough and wheezing.
- Expectorated sputum is sticky and thick, difficult to cough up.
- Breathing appears coarse and labored, with obvious forceful panting.
- Wheezing sounds may occur, with a whistling noise during breathing.
- Flaring of the nostrils during breathing, and the breath feels hot and scorching.
- The tongue appears redder than usual.
- The tongue coating is yellow, giving the overall appearance a yellowish hue.
- The pulse feels smooth and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
宣肺化痰，蠲饮平喘
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing lung qi and resolving and expelling phlegm turbidity, it may help make breathing smoother.
- By removing retained fluids, it may help relieve wheezing and ease rapid breathing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸，恶寒畏冷，咳嗽气喘，胸闷，吐白痰量多，痰多质稀或泡沫样痰，舌淡暗，苔白滑，脉弦滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations and an unsettled heartbeat, with a persistent sense of unease.
- Marked sensitivity to cold, feeling worse upon cold exposure, and a preference for staying in warm places.
- May have cough and shortness of breath, often feeling unable to catch one’s breath.
- Chest tightness and constriction with uncomfortable breathing.
- Expectorated sputum is white and copious, thin in consistency or frothy.
- The tongue appears pale and darkish, not sufficiently rosy.
- The tongue coating is white and relatively slippery, and the tongue surface appears moist.
- The pulse feels tight and tense, yet also smooth to the touch.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温肺化痰
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By warming and nourishing the lungs and dispersing cold pathogens, it may help strengthen the lung’s dispersing and descending functions, reducing chest tightness and sensitivity to cold.
- By resolving and expelling phlegm turbidity, it may help make sputum thinner and easier to expel, allowing smoother breathing and gradually relieving cough and wheezing.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
呼吸喘促，呼多吸少，烦躁不安，张口抬肩，汗出如油，舌质紫暗，苔少或无苔，脉微细欲绝
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May experience rapid breathing, often feeling unable to catch one’s breath.
- Exhalation seems prolonged while inhalation feels short and markedly difficult.
- May feel agitated and restless, with inner anxiety and an inability to calm down.
- Breathing requires opening the mouth widely and raising the shoulders, appearing to struggle for air.
- Profuse sweating, with sweat appearing shiny and oily.
- The tongue appears purplish-dark and not sufficiently rosy.
- The tongue coating is scanty or almost completely absent.
- The pulse feels extremely thready and forceless, almost imperceptible.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
固阴回阳救逆
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By consolidating yin fluids and blood, reducing dissipation and leakage, it may help gradually calm deficiency-heat, dry mouth, and night sweats.
- By warming and supporting declining yang qi, it may help restore the body’s generating force, warming the limbs and stabilizing the breath.
- By rapidly reversing the critical “adverse” tendency and strengthening the body’s resistance to rescue from collapse, it may help restore the pulse and stabilize the condition.
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