Cirrhotic Ascites
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹大坚满，叩之如鼓，两胁胀满或疼痛，舌淡红，苔白腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended and firm, feels tight and hard to the touch, and appears visibly bulging.
- Lightly tapping the abdomen produces a hollow, drum-like sound.
- Fullness and pain occur in the hypochondriac region, aggravated by movement or pressure.
- The tongue is slightly red but not dark, appearing light red when extended.
- The tongue coating is white and greasy, looking thick and sticky upon observation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝理气，行水散满
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps soothe liver qi and regulate qi movement, relieving discomfort such as chest and rib fullness, emotional upset, or belching.
- Helps promote the movement of body fluids, relieving symptoms such as difficult urination, heaviness in the body, or lower limb edema.
- Helps relieve distention and fullness, alleviating abdominal bloating and pain, poor appetite, or a pressing sensation in the abdomen.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹大胀满，按之如囊裹水，脘腹痞胀，得热则舒，食少便溏，舌白滑或白腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended and full, appearing visibly bulging.
- When pressed with the hand, it feels like a bag of water and shows noticeable fluctuation.
- The upper abdomen and belly feel stuffy and distended, as if something is blocked and not flowing freely.
- Warmth makes it feel better, and the stuffy distention lessens when close to warmth.
- Poor appetite with reduced food intake, and loose, unformed stools.
- The tongue coating is white and moist-slippery, or white and greasy.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温中健脾，行气利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps warm and nourish the middle burner and strengthen the spleen and stomach, relieving discomfort such as sensitivity to cold with abdominal pain, poor appetite, or loose stools.
- Helps regulate qi movement, reducing symptoms like chest and abdominal distention, difficult belching, or a pressing sensation in the epigastric region.
- Helps promote fluid metabolism, alleviating problems such as difficult urination, heaviness in the body, or lower limb edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹大坚满，脘腹撑急，或腹痛拒按，两目、皮肤发黄，舌红、苔黄腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended, hard, and full, feeling firm and bulging to the touch; walking or turning around triggers a sense of tightness and discomfort.
- The upper abdomen and entire abdomen feel stretched, tight, and urgent, as if there is something pushing from the inside making it hard to relax.
- There may be abdominal pain that worsens with pressure, making the person reluctant to be touched; the discomfort is significantly aggravated by hand contact.
- The whites of the eyes and skin become yellow, noticeably yellow; the change is clearly visible when looking in a mirror.
- The tongue is reddish, covered with a yellow and greasy coating, looking like a layer of oily yellow coating when observed.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿，攻下逐水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear and drain damp-heat from the body, relieving symptoms like scanty dark urine, bitter and sticky taste in the mouth, and feverish irritability.
- Through purgative action, it promotes smooth bowel movements to expel water-dampness stagnation, reducing ascites, distension, or constipation.
- By expelling water and reducing swelling, it helps improve symptoms like bodily heaviness and lower limb edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹胀大如鼓，腹壁青筋暴露，胁肋刺痛，固定不移，舌紫红或有瘀斑，苔白润
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended like a drum, appears tight and bulging, and feels markedly full on pressure.
- Blue veins are exposed on the abdominal skin, with visible cord-like veins.
- There is a prickling, stabbing pain in the hypochondriac region, fixed in location and not moving, with increased discomfort on pressure.
- The tongue is dark reddish-purple, appearing dull purple when extended, possibly with purplish spots or stagnation marks.
- The tongue coating is white and slightly moist, looking wet and slippery, not dry.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，行气利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, alleviating manifestations such as painful bruising, local swelling and hardness, or irregular menstruation.
- Helps regulate qi and promote its smooth flow, reducing discomfort like chest and flank distension, abdominal bloating and pain, or difficult belching.
- Helps promote urination and drain dampness to reduce swelling, relieving symptoms such as difficult urination, lower limb edema, or bodily heaviness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹大胀满，形似蛙腹，早轻暮重，面色萎黄，怯寒肢冷，舌淡胖，或有齿痕，苔薄白润
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended and full, bulging outward, resembling a frog’s belly; upon pressing, a sensation of distension and discomfort is felt.
- Symptoms are milder in the morning but worsen by evening, with more noticeable fullness after daytime activities.
- The complexion is yellowish and lacks luster, looking unhealthy and sallow.
- Aversion to cold, with cold hands and feet that are slow to warm up, and general sensitivity to cold.
- The tongue is pale and enlarged, often with dental indentations on the edges.
- The tongue coating is thin, white, and somewhat moist, appearing wet and white without dryness.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温补脾肾，化气利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps warm and nourish the yang of the spleen and kidneys, so that the body becomes less sensitive to cold, and discomforts like soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees and mental fatigue gradually lessen.
- Helps enhance the middle burner’s transformation and transportation function, improving digestion and absorption of food, thereby reducing poor appetite, abdominal distension, and loose stools.
- Helps promote qi transformation to facilitate the discharge of water-dampness, improving urine flow and gradually relieving bodily edema and heaviness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹大胀急，牙龈出血，鼻衄时作，舌红绛少津，苔少或花剥
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended, large and tight, appearing bulging and urgent, with more discomfort during movement.
- The gums bleed easily, with blood oozing or flowing when brushing or eating.
- Nosebleeds occur from time to time, and may recur after stopping.
- The tongue is very red, tending towards crimson and somewhat dry, with little moisture and appearing unmoistened.
- The tongue coating is scanty or shows a peeled, patchy appearance, looking uneven as if it has been scraped off.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋养肝肾，化瘀利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps nourish the liver and kidneys, replenishing essence and blood to relieve dizziness, blurred vision, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, or mental fatigue.
- Helps resolve stasis and promote blood circulation, reducing fixed stabbing pain, purplish bruising, or local swellings.
- Helps promote urination and remove dampness to reduce swelling, relieving discomfort such as difficult urination, lower limb edema, or bodily heaviness.
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