Depression
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
情绪低落，兴趣索然，腰膝酸软，性欲低下，脉沉细弱或沉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Low mood and depressed spirits with a lack of drive.
- Low interest in activities and a lack of motivation to do anything.
- Sore, weak, and fatigued lower back and knees, feeling limp and unsupported.
- Decreased libido and markedly reduced desire for sexual activity.
- Pulse feels deep, thready, and weak, or deep and taut.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益肾调气，解郁安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help tonify kidney qi and regulate qi movement, alleviating discomfort such as soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, shortness of breath, fatigue, or general physical weakness.
- May help soothe stagnation and calm the mind, relieving symptoms such as depressed mood, palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, or anxiety.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胸胁胀满，纳呆，倦怠脘痞，舌苔薄白，脉弦细或弦滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Discomfort with a distending sensation in the chest and along the sides.
- Poor appetite with decreased enjoyment of food.
- General fatigue and lack of strength, with a feeling of fullness and oppression in the upper abdomen.
- Tongue coating is thin and white, lightly covering the tongue.
- Pulse feels taut and thready, or taut with a slippery quality.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝健脾，化痰散结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help soothe liver qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach, alleviating discomfort such as chest and rib-side distension, poor appetite, abdominal bloating, or loose stools.
- May help resolve phlegm turbidity and dissipate masses, reducing symptoms such as difficult expectoration, a feeling of obstruction in the throat, or internal lumps.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
烦躁易怒，胸胁胀满，口苦，小便短赤，舌质红，舌苔黄腻，脉弦数或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Easily irritated and prone to anger, with emotional instability.
- Discomfort with a feeling of distension and oppression in the chest and along the sides.
- Bitter taste in the mouth, often with a lingering bitter sensation.
- Urination is short, scanty, and yellowish-red.
- Tongue body is reddish, with a yellow, sticky and greasy coating.
- Pulse feels taut and wiry and slightly rapid, or slippery and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肝利胆，宁心安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear liver heat and promote the smooth flow of bile, alleviating discomfort such as distending pain in the rib-sides, bitter taste, red eyes, or poor appetite.
- May help calm the mind, relieving symptoms such as palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep with easy startling, or emotional irritability.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
情绪低落，多愁善感，足膝酸软，手足心热，心悸健忘，舌红或暗红，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Low mood and tendency to be sentimental and melancholic.
- Sore, weak, and fatigued sensation in the feet and knees.
- Hot sensation in the palms and soles.
- Palpitations with a tendency to be easily startled, and poor memory.
- Tongue body is reddish or dark red.
- Pulse is thready and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴清心，养脑安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help nourish yin fluids and clear and descend heart fire, alleviating discomfort such as irritability, thirst, insomnia with dream-disturbed sleep, or heat in the palms and soles.
- May help nourish the brain and calm the mind, relieving symptoms such as forgetfulness, dizziness, palpitations, or emotional instability.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
多思善虑，头晕神疲，纳差，倦怠乏力，舌质淡，苔薄白，脉细缓
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Tendency to overthink and ruminate, with difficulty relaxing.
- Dizziness and mental fatigue are common.
- Poor appetite with decreased enjoyment of food.
- General bodily fatigue and lack of strength, with no motivation to do things.
- Tongue body is pale.
- Tongue coating is thin and white.
- Pulse is thready and somewhat slow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
养心健脾，补益气血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, alleviating discomfort such as palpitations, insomnia, dream-disturbed sleep, forgetfulness, poor appetite, abdominal bloating, or loose stools.
- May help supplement qi and blood, relieving symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, dizziness, or palpitations.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胆怯恐惧，心中难以决断，易于惊醒，心悸气短，舌质淡，苔薄白，脉沉细或细而无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Easily feels timid and fearful.
- Difficulty making decisions, often unable to make up one’s mind.
- Light sleep and easily awakened with a start.
- Palpitations with shortness of breath.
- Tongue body is pale.
- Tongue coating is thin and white.
- Pulse is deep and thready, or thready and weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气镇惊，安神定志
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help supplement the body’s vital qi to relieve weakness, alleviating discomfort such as fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, palpitations, or sweating.
- May help calm the heart-mind and settle palpitations or fright, relieving symptoms such as insomnia with dream-disturbed sleep, mental restlessness, or being easily startled.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
情绪不宁，胸部满闷，胸胁胀痛，急躁易怒，舌质红，苔黄，脉弦或弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Emotional restlessness, feeling agitated and unable to sit still.
- Chest oppression with a distending and uncomfortable sensation.
- Persistent distending pain in the chest and rib-sides.
- Easily irritable and quick to anger, with tendency toward emotional agitation.
- Tongue body is reddish, with a relatively bright color.
- Tongue coating is yellow.
- Pulse feels taut or taut and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，理气安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help soothe liver qi and resolve stagnation, alleviating discomfort such as chest and rib-side distension, depressed mood, or frequent sighing.
- May help regulate qi movement and calm the mind, relieving symptoms such as chest oppression, palpitations, insomnia with dream-disturbed sleep, or mental restlessness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
情绪低落，畏寒肢冷，腰膝冷痛，夜尿频数，舌质淡，苔白，脉沉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Low mood.
- Aversion to cold, with cold extremities.
- Cold pain in the lower back and knees.
- Frequent urination during the night.
- Tongue body is pale.
- Tongue coating is white.
- Pulse is deep and forceless.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温肾助阳，解郁安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help warmly supplement kidney qi and support yang, alleviating discomfort such as aversion to cold, cold limbs, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, or low spirits.
- May help soothe stagnation and calm the mind, relieving symptoms such as palpitations, insomnia with dream-disturbed sleep and easy startling, or depressed mood.
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