Chronic Pyelonephritis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
小便短赤，淋沥涩痛，尿急频数，腰酸腰痛，小腹坠胀，口干咽燥，舌红，苔黄腻，脉数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Urination is scanty, yellowish-red, dribbling and incomplete with astringent pain; sudden urgency with increased frequency, and overall difficult and uncomfortable urination.
- Soreness, distension, and pain in the lower back, with noticeable discomfort during movement or prolonged sitting.
- Lower abdominal distension with a bearing-down sensation, which worsens when walking or standing.
- Dry mouth and throat, with a rough, uncomfortable sensation when speaking or swallowing.
- The tongue appears red, noticeably red when extended.
- The tongue is covered with a yellow, sticky-greasy coating that looks like a layer of oily yellow moss.
- The pulse is rapid, feeling accelerated and hurried upon palpation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear heat from the body, alleviating discomfort such as fever, restlessness, thirst, dry throat, or irritability.
- May help expel damp-turbidity, reducing manifestations like heaviness of the body, scanty dark urine, or lower limb edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
尿频、尿急、尿痛或小便淋沥不畅反复发作，腰部酸痛，食欲减退，倦怠乏力，低热或者手足心热，口干舌燥，舌边有齿痕，苔少或根黄腻，脉细弱或者细数无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Increased urinary frequency, urgency with pain, or dribbling and hesitant urination, and these urinary discomforts tend to recur.
- Soreness, distension, and pain in the lower back, more pronounced with movement or prolonged sitting.
- Decreased appetite, eating less, and little interest in food even after eating.
- Easily fatigued and lacking energy, with limited recovery after rest.
- Sometimes mild fever, or a hot, burning sensation in the palms and soles.
- Dry mouth and tongue, with a rough, uncomfortable sensation when speaking or swallowing.
- Tooth marks are visible on the edges of the tongue, with scalloped margins.
- The tongue coating is scant, or there is a yellow, sticky-greasy coating at the root.
- The pulse is thin and weak, or thin and rapid without sufficient force, feeling insubstantial upon palpation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴，清利湿热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help supplement qi and nourish yin fluids, alleviating discomfort such as fatigue, shortness of breath, dry mouth and throat, or tidal fever and night sweats.
- May help clear damp-heat from the body, reducing manifestations such as heaviness, scanty dark urine, or lower limb edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
尿频、尿急、尿痛或小便淋沥不畅反复发作，眩晕耳鸣，腰膝酸软，时有低热或五心烦热，夜寐不安甚则盗汗，或有血尿，舌红苔少或根黄腻，脉细数或虚数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Increased urinary frequency, urgency with pain, or dribbling and hesitant urination, and these urinary discomforts tend to recur.
- May experience dizziness, blurred vision, and tinnitus, hearing a buzzing sound even in quiet environments.
- Soreness, distension, and weakness in the lower back and knees, feeling a lack of strength when walking or sitting for long.
- Sometimes low-grade fever, or a hot, restless sensation in the palms, soles, and chest.
- Restless sleep at night; in severe cases, waking up soaked in sweat after falling asleep.
- Sometimes blood in the urine, visible as reddish urine during urination.
- The tongue is red with very little coating, or there is a yellow, sticky-greasy coating at the root.
- The pulse is thin and rapid, or weak and rapid, feeling insubstantial.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋补肾阴，清热化湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help nourish kidney yin, alleviating discomfort such as soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, or tidal fever and night sweats.
- May help clear heat and resolve damp-turbidity, reducing manifestations such as heaviness, scanty dark urine, or lower limb edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
尿频、尿急、尿痛或尿黄或小便淋沥不畅反复发作，胁肋胀痛拒按，伴恶心纳呆，厌食油腻，口干且苦，舌红苔腻，脉沉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Increased urinary frequency, urgency with pain, or yellow urine, or dribbling and hesitant urination that recurs easily.
- Distending pain and discomfort in the hypochondriac region, worse with pressure, with a feeling of oppressive distension.
- May experience nausea, poor appetite, and lack of interest in food.
- Aversion to greasy foods, which cause more greasy, stagnant discomfort when eaten.
- Dry and bitter taste in the mouth, with an uncomfortable bitter-dry feeling when speaking or swallowing.
- The tongue is red with a sticky-greasy coating that looks thick and unclear.
- The pulse is deep and only palpable on heavy pressure; it is slippery and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏利肝胆，清热利湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help soothe liver-gallbladder qi movement, alleviating discomfort such as hypochondriac distension and pain, bitter mouth and dry throat, or emotional depression.
- May help clear heat and promote the expulsion of damp-turbidity, reducing manifestations such as heaviness, scanty dark urine, or yellowing of eyes and skin.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
每逢劳累则见尿频，尿急，尿痛或者小便淋沥不畅，腰膝酸软，食少神疲，少腹坠胀，甚则畏寒肢冷，面浮肢肿，舌淡苔薄白润，脉沉细无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Whenever fatigued, increased urinary frequency, urgency, painful urination, or dribbling and hesitant urination occurs.
- Soreness, distension, and weakness in the lower back and knees, with a lack of strength when walking or standing for long.
- Poor appetite, eating less, and the whole person easily becomes tired and listless.
- Lower abdominal distension with a bearing-down sensation, with a feeling of stifling discomfort when moving.
- When the condition is severe, there is aversion to cold, with cold hands and feet that are slow to warm up.
- The face and limbs easily become puffy, with a noticeable distended sensation upon pressure.
- The tongue is pale with a thin, white, moist coating, looking wet and pale.
- The pulse is deep and only palpable on heavy pressure; it is thin and forceless, lacking strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益肾，清利湿浊
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help strengthen the spleen and stomach and supplement kidney qi, alleviating discomfort such as poor appetite, fatigue, listlessness, or soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees.
- May help clear damp-turbidity from the body, reducing manifestations such as heaviness, head and body heaviness, or inhibited urination.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
尿频、尿急、尿痛或小便淋沥不畅反复发作，肋腰刺痛酸胀，少腹胀痛，舌质紫黯或有瘀斑，脉细涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Increased urinary frequency, urgency with pain, or dribbling and hesitant urination that is difficult to empty completely; these urinary discomforts recur.
- Stabbing pain with soreness and distension appears in the flank and lower back, with a relatively distinct pain location.
- Lower abdominal distension and pain, felt whether moving or at rest.
- The tongue is purplish-dark, with visible purple stasis spots or patches on the surface.
- The pulse is thin and unsmooth, feeling rough and not flowing freely.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清利湿热，通阳化瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear damp-heat, alleviating discomfort such as heaviness, scanty dark urine, or fever and restlessness.
- May help unblock yang and resolve stasis, reducing manifestations such as stasis-spot pain, local swelling and hardness, or impaired joint movement.
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