Diabetes
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
消瘦，疲乏无力，易汗出，口干，心悸失眠，舌红，苔薄白，脉虚细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Thinning body shape, difficulty maintaining weight or experiencing weight loss.
- Often feels tired and weak, easily fatigued after light activity.
- Prone to sweating with slight exertion or work.
- Constantly dry mouth, often wants to drink water to moisten.
- Palpitations with restlessness, difficulty falling asleep at night or easily waking.
- Tongue color is reddish, overall hue appears reddish.
- Thin white tongue coating, very thin and whitish.
- The pulse is weak and thin; at rest, lightly pressing the radial artery reveals it faintly, with moderate pressure it becomes palpable, usually 4–5 beats per breath, equating to about 60–80 beats per minute; it should be distinguished from nearly impalpable faint pulse and merely thin but not weak pulse.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Replenishes vitality and energy, helping to feel stronger and less fatigued.
- Augments body fluids and moistens, relieving dryness such as dry mouth and throat.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
消瘦，口干口苦，心悸失眠，舌红少津，苔薄白干或少苔，脉虚细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Thinning body shape, weight hard to maintain or gradually decreasing.
- Dry mouth with desire to drink, often bitter taste in the mouth.
- Palpitations with restlessness, difficulty falling asleep at night or easily waking up.
- Tongue color is reddish, oral fluids are scanty and mouth feels dry.
- Tongue coating is very thin, white and dry, or almost no coating.
- The pulse is weak, thin, and tends to be rapid; at rest, lightly pressing the radial artery, mostly over 90 beats per minute, over 4 beats per breath; distinguished from merely thin but not rapid, merely rapid but not thin, and nearly impalpable faint pulse.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Replenishes vitality and energy, helping to feel stronger and less fatigued.
- Augments body fluids and moistens, relieves dry mouth, throat, and skin dryness.
- Reduces internal heat, eases irritability, fever, heat sensation in hands and feet and other discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
疲乏无力，口干多饮，肢体麻木，舌暗底瘀，脉弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Often feels tired and weak, easily fatigued by slight activity.
- Constantly dry mouth, always wants to drink water and drinks more than usual.
- Numbness in limbs, dulled sensation or a crawling skin sensation.
- Tongue color is darkish, with visible petechiae or bruise spots under the tongue.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string and thready fine like a thread, firm, straight, and thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps blood flow more smoothly, clearing out blocked areas.
- Reduces numbness, tingling, cold sensation, and distending pain.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
疲乏无力，口干多饮，头重体胖，呕恶痰涎，舌体胖大，苔白腻，脉滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Often feels tired and weak, easily fatigued by slight activity.
- Dry mouth, always wanting to drink, water intake obviously increased.
- Heavy sensation in the head, body tends to be overweight and walking appears clumsy.
- Nausea, much phlegm and drool in mouth, vomitus often contains sticky phlegm.
- The tongue body appears enlarged and puffy, looks thick and plump.
- White and greasy tongue coating, surface seems covered by a sticky white layer.
- The pulse feels smooth and rolling like pearls under the fingers; palpable at light, moderate, and heavy pressure, with even rhythm; after resting 5 minutes, measured at the wrist radial artery by three fingers, mostly 60-90 beats per minute, about 4-5 beats per breath; distinguished from rough, hesitant pulse and tight, straight-hard pulse; often associated with phlegm-dampness or food accumulation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
燥湿化痰，益气养阴
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Removes excess dampness from the body, resolves sticky phlegm, relieves coughing up phlegm, chest tightness, and heaviness of the head.
- Replenishes vitality and energy, making one less prone to fatigue.
- Augments body fluids and moistens, relieves dry mouth and throat.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
小便频数，浑浊如膏，腰膝酸软，眩晕耳鸣，五心烦热，低热颧红，口干咽燥，多梦遗精，舌红少苔，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Frequent urination, markedly increased frequency during day and night.
- Urine looks turbid, as if mixed with grease, appearing thick.
- Soreness and weakness in lower back and knees, standing or walking for long worsens fatigue.
- Dizziness, blurred vision, and frequent tinnitus.
- Heat sensation in palms, soles, and chest, with restlessness and agitation.
- Often low-grade fever, malar flushing on cheeks.
- Dry mouth and throat, always wanting to drink more water.
- Often multiple dreams during sleep; in males, nocturnal emissions while asleep.
- Tongue color is reddish, with very little or almost no coating.
- Pulse is thin and tends to be rapid, often over 90 beats per minute at rest.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴补肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Augments body fluids and moistens, reduces dryness of mouth, throat, and skin.
- Helps strengthen foundational vitality, supports energy and stamina, and may benefit sleep and reproductive health.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
小便频数，夜尿增多，浑浊如脂如膏，甚至饮一溲一，五心烦热，口干咽燥，神疲，耳轮干枯，面色黧黑；腰膝酸软无力，畏寒肢凉，四肢欠温，阳痿，下肢浮肿，甚则全身皆肿，舌质淡，苔白而干，脉沉细无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Urination frequency obviously increased throughout the entire day, frequent voiding.
- Nocturia frequency increases, often awakened by urge to urinate.
- Urine appears turbid and whitish, like grease or pasty turbidity.
- Shortly after drinking water, desire to urinate, almost urinating as much as drunk.
- Heat sensation in palms, soles, and chest, with restlessness and agitation.
- Dry mouth and throat, always wanting to drink more water.
- Mental fatigue, lack of energy, easily drowsy and weak during the day.
- Skin of the auricle dry and withered, lacking oiliness and elasticity.
- Face complexion dark and dull, not bright, looking poor.
- Soreness and weakness in lower back and knees, standing or walking for long worsens fatigue.
- Clearly sensitive to cold, hands and feet often cold and hard to warm up.
- Limbs feel cool, not warm to touch.
- In males, weak or difficult erections, decreased sexual function.
- Swelling in lower legs and ankles that pits on pressure, does not easily subside after activity.
- In severe cases, not only leg and foot swelling, but whole-body edema appears.
- Tongue color pale and whitish, overall lack of blood hue.
- Tongue coating white and dry, surface lacks moisture.
- Pulse can only be felt with deeper pressure, sensation is thin, small, and weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴补阳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Augments body fluids and moistens, reduces dryness of mouth, throat, and skin.
- May help increase warmth and vitality, supporting energy, cold tolerance, and metabolic function.
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