Colorectal Cancer
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部阵痛，泻下赤白，里急后重，肛门灼热坠痛，胸闷烦渴，小腹坠胀；舌质红或绛红，苔黄或腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Intermittent abdominal pain.
- Diarrhea with stool containing red and white mucus, as if mixed with blood and mucus.
- Constant urge to defecate with a sensation of incomplete evacuation and marked rectal tenesmus.
- Burning heat in the anus accompanied by bearing-down pain.
- Chest tightness, with irritability and thirst.
- A bearing-down and distended sensation in the lower abdomen.
- Tongue body is red or dark reddish.
- Tongue coating is yellow or appears sticky and greasy.
- Pulse is slippery and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿，解毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps reduce excessive internal heat and fire, promotes the drainage of dampness and turbidity, and may relieve discomfort such as fever, dry mouth, sticky sensation, and heaviness.
- Helps clear turbid toxins from the body, may curb redness, swelling, pus formation, and foul-smelling discharge, allowing pain and inflammation to gradually ease.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部阵阵如针刺、拒按，下痢脓血、里急后重，烦热口渴；舌质紫暗或有瘀斑，苔黄或燥而少津，脉弦数或涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Paroxysmal stabbing pain in the abdomen, worse with pressure and the person resists being touched.
- Diarrhea mixed with pus and blood, persistent urge to defecate after bowel movements with a heavy, bearing-down sensation of incomplete evacuation.
- Generalized feverishness with an agitated mind, and thirst with a desire to drink water for relief.
- Tongue body is dark or purplish, possibly with purplish spots or petechiae.
- Tongue coating is yellow, or dry with scanty moisture, giving a dehydrated appearance.
- Pulse is taut and slightly rapid, or rough and uneven in flow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血祛瘀，行气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Promotes smooth blood circulation, resolves blood stasis and blockages, and may reduce purplish discoloration, swelling, and hard masses.
- Helps regulate and smooth the qi mechanism, relieve stagnation, and may ease bloating pain, stabbing pain, and pulling pain, allowing discomfort to gradually subside.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸气短，腹胀纳差，大便稀溏，四肢浮肿，消瘦，肛门下坠；舌体瘦小或有裂纹，苔少或光如镜面，脉细无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Palpitations with an unsettled heart, easily short of breath and panting with slight exertion.
- Abdominal bloating and fullness with poor appetite, no desire to eat even when seeing food.
- Stools are loose and unformed, passed with relatively little difficulty but with increased frequency.
- Edema of the limbs, with the hands and feet appearing swollen and heavy.
- Noticeable weight loss, the person appears thin and emaciated.
- A bearing-down, heavy sensation in the anus, as if being pulled downward.
- Tongue body tends to be thin and small, or cracks may be visible on the tongue surface.
- Tongue coating is very scanty, or the tongue surface appears shiny and smooth, like a mirror.
- Pulse is thin, small, and forceless on palpation, lacking strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补气养血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Supplements original qi, may relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, spontaneous sweating, and disinclination to speak, supporting better physical strength and endurance.
- Nourishes the blood, may improve a pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations, helping restore a healthier complexion and a calmer spirit.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
面色潮红，腰膝酸软，五心烦热，或潮热盗汗，阳痿遗精，大便秘结，腹胀；舌质红或光红，苔落或无，脉细弦或数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Facial complexion is often flushed, appearing with intermittent hot flushes and a reddened look.
- Soreness, distension, and weakness in the lower back and knees, feeling weak and unsupported.
- Intermittent heat sensations in the palms, soles, and chest, with an agitated and restless mind.
- Occasionally experiences intermittent heat with night sweats, heavy sweating after sleep and easily waking.
- Weak or easily failing erections, with possible involuntary seminal emission.
- Dry, hard, lumpy stools that are difficult and require strain to pass.
- Abdominal fullness and discomfort, often with a pressing, stuffy sensation.
- Tongue body is reddish or shiny red, appearing bright red overall.
- Tongue coating has peeled away and diminished, or is almost absent.
- Pulse is thin and taut, or somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋养肝肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Supplements body fluids and nourishment, helping stabilize foundational energy and recovery capacity.
- Regulates liver and kidney functions, may relieve symptoms such as soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and unsettled sleep.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
形体消瘦，面色苍白，畏寒肢冷，腰膝发软，腹部胀痛，喜温喜按，时有便溏；舌质淡无华，有齿痕，苔薄白，脉沉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Emaciated body with a pale complexion, appearing bloodless.
- Aversion to cold, with hands and feet that feel cold and do not easily warm up.
- Weakness and lack of strength in the lower back and knees.
- Abdominal distension and dull pain, comforted by warmth and pressure.
- Occasional loose stools, prone to diarrhea.
- Tongue body is pale and dull, with tooth marks visible on the edges.
- Tongue coating is thin and white.
- Pulse is felt only with deeper pressure, and is thin, small, and forceless.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温补脾肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warms and strengthens the spleen’s transformation and absorption, supporting a better appetite and intestinal function, and may relieve discomfort such as poor appetite, bloating, loose stools, and fatigue.
- Warms and nourishes kidney yang and essence, stabilizes the lower foundation, and may reduce aversion to cold, cold limbs, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, frequent urination, and nocturia, helping support steadier physical strength and endurance.
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