Chronic Pancreatitis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
食欲不振，倦怠乏力，大便溏薄，便夹油滴，舌淡胖，苔白，脉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May experience poor appetite, with low interest in eating and generally unremarkable appetite.
- May feel drowsy and lacking in energy, with general fatigue and a sense of weakness during daily activities.
- Stools tend to be loose and watery, lacking proper form.
- Stools may contain oily substances, appearing as if oil droplets are present.
- The tongue may appear pale and slightly enlarged.
- The tongue coating is white, with a thin white layer covering the surface.
- The pulse feels weak and lacks force.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾理气，升清止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By regulating the spleen and stomach and smoothing the qi mechanism, it enhances transformation and transportation, and may help relieve poor appetite, post-meal bloating, body heaviness and fatigue, and loose or unformed stools.
- By raising clear yang qi and stabilizing intestinal function, it may help reduce diarrhea and frequency, alleviating chronic watery diarrhea, abdominal distension and pain, borborygmus, urgency of defecation, or rectal heaviness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹痛拒按，痛如针刺，痛处固定，上腹部扪及包块，压痛明显，舌质紫暗或有瘀斑，脉沉涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Abdominal pain may feel like a needle prick, with a fixed location, and pressure worsens the discomfort, making the person reluctant to be pressed.
- A mass-like sensation may be felt in the upper abdomen, with significant pain upon pressure.
- The tongue may turn purplish and dark, or ecchymosis-like spots may be visible.
- The pulse feels deep and rough, with a somewhat unsmooth flow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，理气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By promoting blood circulation and resolving blood stasis, it helps qi and blood flow more smoothly, and may relieve stabbing pain, fixed tender points, pain on pressure, local hardness, or purplish bruises.
- By regulating stagnant qi and relieving pain, it may gradually ease distending pain and help alleviate fullness in the chest and abdomen, epigastric stuffiness, belching with acid reflux, hiccup, and nausea.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
脘胁胀痛，口干口苦，身热，纳差，无力，可有黄疸，大便秘结，小便黄少，舌苔黄厚腻，脉弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The upper abdomen and both sides of the rib cage feel distended and painful, with a stuffy and uncomfortable sensation.
- There may be a dry and bitter taste in the mouth, leaving an unpleasant, bitter sensation.
- The body may feel hot and overheated, causing general discomfort.
- Appetite may be poor, with reduced interest in food and decreased intake.
- May feel weak and fatigued, lacking strength for daily activities.
- Sometimes the skin and eyes may turn noticeably yellow.
- Constipation may occur, with dry, hard stools that are difficult and strenuous to pass.
- Urine is yellowish and scanty, with reduced output compared to usual.
- The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy, giving the surface a sticky appearance.
- The pulse feels taut like a string and slightly rapid, with a hurried beat.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝利胆，清热利湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing liver qi and promoting bile excretion, it helps smooth the qi and bile pathways, and may relieve hypochondriac distension and pain, right upper quadrant stuffiness, bitter taste, poor appetite, nausea with acid reflux, and yellowish urine.
- By clearing heat and excess dampness from the body, it reduces sticky sensations and heat signs, and may help relieve oppressive heat and fatigue, bitter and sticky taste, chest and hypochondriac stuffiness, thick greasy tongue coating, scanty dark urine, post-meal fullness, or nausea.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
脘胁胀满或窜痛，常因情绪激动而发作，纳差，饱胀，嗳气，恶心，呕吐，吐后胀痛不减，大便溏薄，便夹油滴，或大便难行，舌质红，苔白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The upper abdomen and both sides of the rib cage feel distended and full, or there may be a pain that moves around.
- It often flares up or worsens with emotional agitation, and the discomfort is linked to mood swings.
- Appetite may be poor, with low interest in eating.
- The abdomen feels bloated and uncomfortably full.
- Frequent belching and passing of gas upward may occur.
- May feel nauseated and experience regurgitation discomfort.
- Vomiting may occur, expelling stomach contents.
- After vomiting, the abdominal bloating and pain do not ease, and the distension and pain remain.
- Stools tend to be loose and thin, with a relatively watery consistency.
- Stools may contain oily substances, appearing as if oil droplets are present.
- Or there may be difficulty passing stools, making bowel movements strenuous.
- The tongue appears slightly redder than usual.
- The tongue coating is white and thin, without marked thickness.
- The pulse feels tense, like a stretched string.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，理气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing liver qi and relieving emotional stagnation, it promotes smoother qi flow and may help relieve hypochondriac distension and pain, chest tightness, depressed mood, irritability, and frequent sighing.
- By regulating qi and relieving pain, it helps dissipate stagnant distension and may relieve epigastric stuffiness, distending or dull pain, and improve belching, acid reflux, hiccup, and nausea.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
多为合并糖尿病者，每由饮食失调、劳累诱发或加重。症见脐腰隐痛，腹满，口渴思饮，夜尿多，便溏，体瘦，舌质红，有裂纹，苔白滑或微黄，脉沉弦或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- This presentation is more commonly seen in people who also have diabetes.
- It is often triggered or worsened by irregular eating or overexertion.
- There may be a dull, persistent ache around the navel and in the lower back.
- The abdomen feels bloated and full, causing an uncomfortable distended sensation.
- Marked thirst is present, with a constant desire to drink water to quench it.
- Urination frequency may increase at night, with frequent trips to the bathroom.
- Stools tend to be loose and lack proper form.
- The person may lose weight and appear thin.
- The tongue appears redder than normal.
- Fissures may appear on the tongue surface, looking like small cracks.
- The tongue coating is white and slippery, or slightly yellow.
- The pulse feels deep and taut like a string, or possibly thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
养阴生津，健脾化湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By nourishing yin fluids and promoting body fluid production, it helps moisturize the body and may relieve dry mouth and throat, dry cough with little phlegm, heat in the palms and soles, night sweats, and irritability.
- At the same time, it regulates the spleen and stomach and transforms dampness to support smoother transformation and transportation, and may help relieve heaviness and fatigue, poor appetite, post-meal bloating, sticky mouth, thick greasy tongue coating, and loose stools.
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