Diabetic Diarrhea
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
泄泻腹痛，因情志不畅而发或加重，泻后痛缓，胸胁胀闷，嗳气，食欲不振，舌淡红，苔薄白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Diarrhea accompanied by abdominal pain, with distension and discomfort during episodes.
- Episodes are easily triggered or worsened by emotional distress or stress, showing a clear emotional influence.
- After diarrhea, abdominal pain tends to lessen, and the discomfort gradually subsides.
- The chest and hypochondriac region feel distended and oppressed, with a persistent sense of discomfort in the chest and sides.
- Belching with upward reflux of gas, with an uncontrollable sensation of air rushing up from the stomach.
- Poor appetite, inability to eat, and lack of interest in food.
- The tongue body is pale with a slight red tint, appearing light in color overall.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, lightly covering the surface without thickness or greasiness.
- The pulse feels tight and wiry upon pressing, like a taut string without softness.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
抑肝扶脾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Mildly restrain the Liver’s excessive reaction, so that emotions and qi flow are not hyperactive or urgent.
- Support the Spleen’s transportation and transformation function, so that ingested food can be properly digested and energy strengthened.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
大便时溏时泻，饮食稍有不慎即发或加重，食后腹胀，痞闷不舒，纳呆食少，身倦乏力，四肢不温，少气懒言，舌淡苔白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stools are sometimes loose and sometimes watery diarrhea, with an unstable and recurrent bowel pattern.
- Even a minor dietary indiscretion can trigger an episode or significantly worsen symptoms.
- After meals, the abdomen feels distended and bloated, with an uncomfortable swelling sensation.
- The epigastric region feels persistently stuffy and uncomfortable, as if blocked.
- Appetite is markedly reduced, with no desire to eat or only eating very little even when seeing food.
- Generalized fatigue and weakness, feeling exhausted after even slight activity.
- Hands and feet remain cold and not warm for long periods, feeling noticeably chilly to the touch.
- Tend to be short of breath and weak in speaking, reluctant to talk much.
- The tongue body is pale, with a white coating that looks relatively clear.
- The pulse is thin and lacks strength, feeling weak upon pressing.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，升清降浊
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen the Spleen’s transportation and transformation function and supplement qi to make one feel more energetic.
- Raise the clear qi to nourish the brain and eyes, and guide turbidity downward to eliminate, thus reducing fatigue and sticky sensation in the mouth.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
糖尿病病程较长，黎明之前脐腹作痛，或无痛性腹泻，肠鸣即泻，泻下完谷，可有大便失禁，伴乏力倦怠，身体消瘦，形寒肢冷，腰膝酸软，舌淡苔白，脉沉细无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- In long-standing diabetes, there is abdominal pain around the umbilicus before dawn, or painless diarrhea with bowel sounds immediately followed by watery stools containing undigested food; fecal incontinence may occur, accompanied by fatigue, body emaciation, aversion to cold with cold limbs, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, pale tongue with white coating, and a deep, thready, forceless pulse.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾温肾止泻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen the Spleen’s transportation and transformation function and warmly support Kidney yang so that the intestines have more strength.
- Helps relieve diarrhea, making stools more formed and reducing frequency.
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