Diabetic Kidney Disease
|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:
- Lean physique with difficulty gaining weight or gradual weight loss.
- Frequent fatigue and lack of strength; easily tired even with mild activity.
- Sweats easily, with perspiration triggered by light activity or stress.
- Constant dry mouth with a frequent urge to drink water for moisture.
- Palpitations and restlessness, difficulty falling asleep at night or easy waking.
- Tongue appears red, with an overall reddish hue.
- Tongue coating is thin and white, light without thick or greasy appearance.
- Pulse is weak and thready; barely perceptible with light pressure, can be felt with moderate pressure but lacks force.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps support physical strength and energy, so one feels more vigorous and less easily fatigued.
- Helps replenish body fluids and moisture, easing dry mouth and throat discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
神疲乏力，不寐健忘，腰膝酸软
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Mentally drained and lethargic; general fatigue and lack of strength.
- Difficulty falling asleep at night or wakes easily, poor daytime memory and forgetfulness.
- Soreness, weakness, and heaviness in the lower back and knees, worse after prolonged standing or walking.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补肺肾，益精气
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps strengthen lung function to support smoother breathing, less shortness of breath, and better endurance.
- Supports the kidney’s foundational energy, helping stabilize sleep and cold tolerance, and promoting balanced fluid metabolism.
- Helps support vitality and energy, while also benefiting reproductive strength and recovery.
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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, noticeably increased during both daytime and nighttime.
- Urine appears turbid, as if mixed with grease, and looks thickened.
- Soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, more pronounced after prolonged standing or walking.
- Dizziness and blurred vision, often accompanied by tinnitus.
- Heat sensation in the palms, soles, and chest, with inner restlessness and irritability.
- Low-grade fever is common, with flushed malar cheeks.
- Dry mouth and throat, with a constant desire to drink water for relief.
- Frequent dream-disturbed sleep; males may experience involuntary nocturnal emissions.
- Tongue body is red with very little or almost no coating.
- Pulse is thready and tends to be rapid, often over 90 beats per minute at rest.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴补肾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps replenish body fluids and moisture, easing dryness in the mouth, throat, and skin.
- Supports the body’s foundational energy to enhance vitality and endurance, while also benefiting sleep and reproductive functions.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
乏力，畏寒，纳差，水肿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Frequent fatigue, easily tired even with mild activity.
- Marked sensitivity to cold; feels cold even when the weather is only slightly cool.
- Poor appetite with little desire to eat, difficult to take larger meals.
- Body may develop edema, appearing swollen and tight.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气温阳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps support physical strength and energy, so one feels more vigorous and less easily fatigued.
- Supports warmth and vitality, helps relieve sensitivity to cold, cold hands and feet, and improves appetite and metabolism.
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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:
- Urinary frequency is markedly increased throughout the day, with very frequent urination.
- Increased nighttime urination, often awakened by the urge to urinate.
- Urine appears turbid and whitish, looking like greasy or pasty turbidity.
- Urinates soon after drinking water, with urine output roughly matching fluid intake.
- Heat sensation in the palms, soles, and chest with inner restlessness and irritability.
- Dry mouth and throat, with a constant desire to drink water for relief.
- Mentally drained and lethargic, prone to daytime sleepiness and weakness.
- Skin of the auricle is dry and withered, lacking oiliness and elasticity.
- Facial complexion is dark and dull, lacking brightness, appearing lackluster.
- Soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, worse after prolonged standing or walking.
- Marked sensitivity to cold; hands and feet are often icy and difficult to warm up.
- Low temperature in the limbs, feeling cool rather than warm to the touch.
- Weak or difficult erection in males, with reduced sexual function.
- Swelling in the lower legs and ankles that pits easily on pressure and does not subside readily after walking.
- In severe cases, edema may extend beyond the lower limbs, leading to noticeable generalized edema.
- Tongue is pale and whitish, with an overall lack of color.
- Tongue coating is white and somewhat dry, lacking moisture on the surface.
- Pulse is only clearly felt with deeper pressure, and is fine and weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴补阳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps replenish body fluids and moisture, easing dryness in the mouth, throat, and skin.
- Supports warmth and energy, helps relieve sensitivity to cold, cold hands and feet, and fatigue.
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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:
- Lean physique with difficulty maintaining or gradually losing weight.
- Dry mouth with desire to drink, and a frequent bitter taste without freshness.
- Palpitations and restlessness, difficulty falling asleep at night or waking easily.
- Tongue body is red with reduced moisture and a dry appearance.
- Tongue coating is very thin, white and dry, or nearly absent.
- Pulse is weak, thready, and tends to be rapid, often over 90 beats per minute at rest.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps support physical strength and energy, and reduces fatigue.
- Helps replenish body fluids and moisture, easing dry mouth and throat.
- Helps clear internal heat and relieve discomforts such as restlessness and heat sensation in the hands and feet.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
浮肿、疲倦、乏力、腰痛、蛋白尿、血尿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Body appears swollen and heavy due to edema.
- Frequent fatigue, with an overall lack of energy.
- Noticeable weakness; feels exhausted even with mild activity.
- Pain in the lower back, causing discomfort during daily activities.
- Protein in the urine, manifested as proteinuria.
- Blood in the urine, which may appear reddish or brownish.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，利湿消肿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps clear internal heat and inflammation, supporting the body against discomfort caused by bacteria or viruses.
- Supports the elimination of excess fluids, reducing internal dampness and heavy sensation.
- Helps reduce redness, swelling, and distending pain, gradually easing local lumps and edema.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
疲乏无力，口干多饮，视物不清，血尿，蛋白尿，舌暗底瘀，脉弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Frequent fatigue and lack of strength; easily tired even with mild activity, and generally lacking energy.
- Dry mouth and thirst, with a constant desire to drink more water and noticeably increased fluid intake.
- Blurred vision with difficulty seeing clearly at both near and far distances, affecting daily recognition.
- Blood in the urine, with a reddish or brownish color that is visibly changed to the naked eye.
- Protein in the urine, indicated as proteinuria on physical examination or lab tests.
- Tongue is darkish in color, with visible stasis spots or ecchymoses on the underside.
- Pulse feels like a tense, fine thread when pressed; taut, straight, thready, and not soft.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps promote smoother blood circulation and clear areas of obstruction.
- Helps relieve numbness, tingling, distending pain, and cold sensations.
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