Esophageal Achalasia
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
吞咽时自觉食道梗死不舒，胸膈痞满，甚则疼痛，情志舒畅可减轻，精神抑郁则加重，嗳气呃逆，呕吐痰涎，口干咽燥，大便艰涩，舌质红，苔薄腻，脉弦滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A sensation of something stuck in the esophagus when swallowing, not very smooth
- Chest tightness, sometimes with pain
- Symptoms improve when emotionally relaxed and worsen when feeling stressed or depressed
- Frequent belching and hiccups
- May vomit phlegm or mucus
- Dry mouth and throat
- Dry, hard stools with difficult bowel movements
- Red tongue with a thin, slightly greasy coating
- Wiriy and slippery pulse, indicating an association with emotions and phlegm-qi stagnation
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
降逆化痰，益气和胃
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that direct rebellious qi downward and dissolve sticky phlegm, making phlegm easier to expel and helping relieve chest tightness, a sensation of phlegm in the throat, epigastric stuffiness and bloating, belching, acid reflux, hiccups, nausea, and vomiting.
- At the same time, supplement the middle qi and regulate stomach function to support more comfortable digestion, helping relieve poor appetite, post-meal bloating, fatigue with reluctance to speak, and loose or unformed stools.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胃脘胀痛，连及两胁，每因情志不遂而加重，喜太息，不思饮食，精神抑郁，夜寐不安，舌苔薄白，脉弦滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stomach distension and discomfort, sometimes radiating to both sides of the rib cage
- Symptoms worsen during emotional upset
- Often takes deep sighs to relieve chest tightness
- Poor appetite
- Depressed mood and low energy
- Restless sleep at night
- Thin white tongue coating
- Wiriy and slippery pulse, indicating an association with emotions and liver qi stagnation
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝和胃，理气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that soothe the liver and regulate the stomach to promote smoother qi flow and greater gastrointestinal comfort, helping relieve stuffiness and bloating.
- Use qi-regulating methods to unblock stagnant qi, reducing distension, pain, or dull aching, and helping the pain gradually subside.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
吞咽梗阻，胸膈疼痛，食不得下，甚则滴水难进，食入即吐，面色暗黑，肌肤枯燥，形体消瘦，大便坚如羊屎，或吐下物如赤豆汁，或便血，舌质紫暗，或舌质红少津，脉细涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Difficulty swallowing, feeling as if the throat is blocked
- Chest pain and trouble swallowing food; in severe cases, even water is hard to swallow
- Vomiting soon after eating
- Dull, dark complexion
- Dry, lusterless skin
- Noticeable weight loss and emaciation
- Stools dry and hard, like sheep droppings
- Sometimes vomit resembling red bean juice, or blood in the stool
- Tongue dark purple, or red with insufficient moisture
- Thready, rough pulse, indicating impeded qi and blood circulation and a relatively more severe condition
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
破结行瘀，滋阴养血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that dissolve internal masses and invigorate stagnant blood to promote smoother blood circulation, helping relieve distension and pain, stabbing pain, tenderness, and local hardness.
- Use moistening and blood-nourishing methods to provide more bodily fluids, helping relieve dry mouth and throat, irritability, dizziness, fatigue, and a pale complexion.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
吞咽食物阻塞不下，食入即吐，初期无呕吐，后期格拒，胃脘隐痛或隐隐灼痛，嘈杂似饥，饥不欲食，口干不思饮，咽干唇燥，大便干结或腑行不畅，舌体瘦，质嫩红，少苔或无苔，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Unable to swallow food, often vomiting soon after eating
- Symptoms may be mild at first but can progress to complete inability to swallow
- Dull pain or burning sensation in the epigastric region
- A gnawing sensation in the stomach, as if hungry, yet without desire to eat
- Dry mouth, no desire to drink, dryness of the throat and lips
- Dry, hard stools or difficult bowel movements
- Small, thin tongue that is tender-red, with little or no coating
- Thready and slightly rapid pulse, indicating insufficient yin fluids and internal deficiency heat
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴清热
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use nourishing and moistening methods to replenish body fluids, helping relieve dry mouth and throat, irritability, insomnia with vivid dreaming, and dry skin.
- At the same time, clear deficiency heat caused by insufficient yin fluids, helping relieve afternoon or night fevers, heat in the palms and soles, night sweats, flushed cheeks, dry or sore throat, and dry cough with little phlegm.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
长期吞咽受阻，饮食不下，面色㿠白，精神疲惫，形寒气短，面浮足肿，泛吐清涎，腹胀便溏，舌质淡，苔白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Chronic difficulty swallowing, food and drink hard to get down
- Pale, lusterless complexion
- Low spirits and easy fatigue
- Sensitivity to cold and shortness of breath
- Prone to facial and foot swelling
- Often spits up thin, watery phlegm
- Abdominal fullness and loose stools
- Pale tongue with white coating
- Thready and weak pulse, indicating spleen-kidney yang deficiency and a cold-deficient constitution
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温补脾肾，益气回阳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use gentle methods to gradually strengthen spleen and kidney yang, helping the body become more energetic and improve digestion and transformation, relieving sensitivity to cold, cold hands and feet, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, poor appetite, and easy fatigue.
- Supplement weakened vital qi and consolidate dispersed yang qi, gradually improving a pale complexion, shortness of breath, reluctance to speak, palpitations, aversion to cold, and cold limbs, helping stabilize body temperature and mental state.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽下困难，食物反流，进食稍多即欲吐，时作时止，食入难化，胸骨后疼痛，恶寒喜暖，大便溏烂，舌质淡，苔白，脉濡弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Difficulty swallowing, food tends to regurgitate
- Feels like vomiting after eating even a little more than usual
- Symptoms come and go
- Food feels difficult to digest once it reaches the stomach
- Pain behind the breastbone
- Prone to feeling cold and prefers warmth
- Loose, unformed stools
- Pale tongue with white coating
- Weak pulse, indicating spleen-stomach yang deficiency with weakened digestive function
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温中健脾，和胃降逆
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that warm the middle burner and reinforce spleen qi to strengthen digestion and transformation, helping relieve cold sensitivity, abdominal coldness, post-meal bloating, poor appetite, loose stools, and general fatigue.
- At the same time, regulate stomach function to direct rebellious qi downward, helping relieve epigastric stuffiness and bloating, belching, acid reflux, hiccups, nausea, and vomiting.
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