Diabetic Gastroparesis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
脘腹痞闷，喜温喜按，恶心欲吐，纳呆，身倦乏力，大便稀溏，舌淡苔白，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A feeling of fullness and bloating in the upper abdomen and stomach, with discomfort.
- Prefers warmth and pressure; warmth and gentle massage help relieve discomfort.
- Nausea and a churning sensation in the stomach, often feeling like vomiting.
- Poor appetite, no desire to eat or difficulty eating at the sight of food.
- General fatigue and weakness, easily tired even after slight activity.
- Loose, unformed stools with high water content.
- The tongue appears pale with a white coating.
- The pulse feels deep, thin, and weak, only perceptible with firm pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温中和胃
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm and support the yang qi of the spleen and stomach to strengthen the middle burner.
- Harmonize the stomach’s receiving and transforming functions to help relieve bloating, acid reflux, and nausea.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘胀满，胸闷嗳气，恶心、呕吐，胸闷，大便不爽，得嗳气、矢气则舒，苔薄白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Fullness and distension in the upper abdomen with a suffocating, uncomfortable sensation.
- Chest tightness accompanied by frequent belching.
- Nausea, sometimes leading to vomiting.
- Persistent chest tightness with a feeling of not getting enough air.
- Difficult bowel movements with a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
- Belching or passing gas temporarily relieves the bloating and discomfort.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, without a thick or greasy appearance.
- The pulse feels taut and wiry, like a stretched string lacking softness.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
舒肝理气和胃
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Smooth liver qi stagnation so that the qi flows freely without constraint.
- Harmonize the stomach’s receiving and transforming functions to help ease stomach discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
上腹胀痛，早饱或进食后胀满甚，纳差、烧心，恶心、呕吐，舌苔白腻或厚腻，脉滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distending pain and tightness in the upper abdomen, causing significant discomfort.
- Quickly feels full or experiences worse distension after eating.
- Poor appetite, little desire to eat even when seeing food.
- Burning sensation and acid in the chest, often accompanied by heartburn.
- Nausea that may sometimes lead to vomiting.
- The tongue coating is white and greasy, or markedly thick and sticky.
- The pulse feels smooth and slippery, flowing easily without obstruction.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
消积导滞
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Relieve food stagnation to ease the burden on the stomach and intestines.
- Promote downward movement to clear stagnation and reduce distension and discomfort.
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