Essential Hypertension

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

头晕胀痛，面红目赤，烦躁易怒，口渴，喜饮冷饮，耳鸣，胁痛口苦，舌红，苔黄，脉弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dizziness with a distending, tight headache sensation.
  • Facial flushing and red, bloodshot eyes, giving a heated appearance.
  • Restlessness and irritability, with a tendency to become easily agitated and short-tempered.
  • Noticeable thirst, with a frequent desire to drink water.
  • Preference for cold beverages, favoring ice-cold water or drinks.
  • Ringing in the ears; tinnitus that comes and goes.
  • Pain and discomfort in the hypochondriac region, accompanied by a prominent bitter taste in the mouth.
  • The tongue appears redder than usual, with a deeper red color.
  • The tongue coating is yellow, giving the tongue surface a yellowish appearance.
  • The pulse feels taut like a bowstring and tends to be rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清肝泻火

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By clearing stagnant heat in the liver and reducing internal fire, it helps balance excessive liver fire, gradually relieving discomfort such as irritability, distending pain in the hypochondrium, red eyes and head distention, bitter taste, and dry throat.
  • By reducing fire and preserving body fluids while smoothing the flow of qi, it may help improve heat signs such as headache, dizziness, insomnia with vivid dreaming, dry stools, and yellowish urine, leading to calmer emotions, more restful sleep, and a lighter body sensation.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

头重如裹，胸脘痞闷，呕吐痰涎，肢体困重，食少口腻，舌淡，苔腻，脉滑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • A heavy, distended sensation in the head, as if it is wrapped and pressed, lacking a clear feeling.
  • Chest and upper abdominal oppression and distension, feeling blocked and uncomfortable.
  • Recurrent nausea and the urge to vomit, bringing up sticky phlegm-drool and saliva.
  • The limbs and body feel heavy, sluggish, and weak, with noticeably clumsy movements.
  • Poor appetite and reduced food intake; the mouth feels sticky and greasy, making eating unappealing.
  • The tongue appears pale, lacking sufficient redness and a lustrous quality.
  • The tongue coating is sticky, greasy, and relatively thick, giving the surface a turbid, unclear look.
  • The pulse feels smooth and slippery upon palpation.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

化痰祛湿，和胃降浊

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By resolving sticky phlegm-dampness and eliminating excess dampness, it may help gradually relieve chest and epigastric stuffiness, profuse phlegm with head heaviness, and fatigue.
  • By harmonizing stomach qi and descending turbidity, it may help reduce nausea, regurgitation, belching with poor appetite, abdominal bloating, and sticky mouth sensation, leading to greater comfort in the stomach area.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

头痛如刺，痛有定处，夜间尤甚，手足麻木，面色黧黑，或唇甲青紫，或皮下瘀斑，舌暗，舌下络脉曲张，脉弦涩舌质暗

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Sharp pain in the head, like being pricked by needles, with intense sensation.
  • The pain location is relatively fixed and does not tend to move around.
  • The pain becomes more noticeable and distressing at night.
  • Numbness and distension in the hands and feet, with dulled sensation and reduced dexterity.
  • The complexion appears dark and dull, lacking a healthy, rosy glow.
  • The lips and nails may appear bluish-purple (cyanotic).
  • Bluish-purple bruise-like marks may also appear under the skin.
  • The tongue is darkish in color, lacking brightness and a rosy appearance.
  • The sublingual veins are noticeably enlarged, tortuous, and clearly visible.
  • The pulse feels taut and rough, and the beat is not smooth.
  • Both the color and texture of the tongue are darkish, giving an overall dull appearance.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血化瘀

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By promoting blood circulation and resolving blood stasis, it may help gradually open blockages, relieving stasis-related discomfort such as fixed stabbing pain, numbness, and coldness.
  • By improving blood supply and metabolism and supporting the generation of new blood, it may help qi and blood flow more smoothly, gradually reducing swelling, bruising, dull complexion, and restricted mobility.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

眩晕，头重脚轻，耳鸣，五心烦热，口燥咽干，腰膝酸软，盗汗遗精，两颧潮红，小便短黄，大便干结，舌红，少苔，脉细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dizziness with a sensation that things are floating or spinning, especially unsteady when standing.
  • Heaviness and tightness in the head; when walking, the feet feel light and floating, as if stepping on air.
  • Ringing in the ears; tinnitus that may be constant or vary in intensity.
  • Heat sensation in the palms, soles, and chest, with inner restlessness and difficulty calming down.
  • Dry mouth and throat with a constant desire to drink, yet still feeling insufficiently moisturized after drinking.
  • Aching weakness in the lower back and knees, more pronounced after prolonged standing or walking.
  • Night sweats during sleep, and possibly nocturnal emissions.
  • The cheeks feel red and hot, with episodes of flushing.
  • Urine is scanty and yellow, with a sensation of short and hesitant flow.
  • Stools are dry and hard, difficult to pass, with reduced frequency and straining.
  • The tongue is reddish, with an overall bright red appearance.
  • The tongue coating is very thin or nearly absent, with almost no visible covering.
  • The pulse is thin and rapid, with a fast rate but weak force.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

平肝潜阳，清火息风

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By pacifying liver qi and subduing the upward surging yang, it may help gradually relieve discomfort such as dizziness, head distension, red eyes, tinnitus, irritability, and facial flushing with heat sensation.
  • By clearing and descending internal fire and calming wind movements, it may help reduce symptoms such as hand and foot tremor, convulsions, restlessness, and insomnia with vivid dreaming, leading to more stable emotions and more restful sleep.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

头晕头痛，遇劳加重，腰膝酸软，耳鸣耳聋，健忘，两足痿软，舌淡，脉弱

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dizziness and headache, with a heavy, tight sensation in the head that feels unclear.
  • The above discomfort noticeably worsens after exertion or physical effort.
  • Frequent aching weakness in the lower back and knees, more obvious after standing or walking for long periods.
  • Tinnitus accompanied by hearing loss, making communication feel effortful.
  • Memory decline, with a tendency to forget recent events and details.
  • Weakness in both feet, making it harder to support oneself when walking or standing for a while.
  • The tongue appears pale, lacking a healthy red luster.
  • The pulse is weak and forceless upon palpation.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

滋养肝肾，益精填髓

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By nourishing the liver and kidneys and supplementing yin fluids, it may help gradually relieve discomfort such as soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes, and dry mouth.
  • By boosting essence and replenishing marrow, and enriching essence and blood, it may help reduce forgetfulness, insomnia, and low energy, leading to clearer thinking and more restful sleep.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

眩晕时作，遇劳加重，神疲乏力，气短懒言，面色淡白或萎黄，唇甲色淡，舌淡，脉细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Episodes of vertigo, sometimes with a sudden sensation that the surroundings are spinning.
  • The discomfort noticeably worsens after exertion or physical effort.
  • Easy mental fatigue and general lack of energy, feeling weak all over.
  • Shortness of breath, with reluctance to talk much or speak at all.
  • Pale or yellowish complexion, with a lack of healthy rosy glow.
  • The lips and nails are pale, lacking the usual rosy color.
  • The tongue is pale, lacking redness and brightness.
  • The pulse is thin and weak, with little force.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补益气血，调养心脾

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By tonifying the body’s true qi and enriching qi and blood, it may help gradually relieve discomfort such as shortness of breath, fatigue, pale complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and spontaneous sweating.
  • By regulating the heart and spleen, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and calming the mind, it may help improve poor appetite, abdominal bloating, lack of taste, insomnia, and forgetfulness, leading to more stable physical and mental energy.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

头痛、头晕与月经有关，月经不调，耳鸣，心烦易怒，手足心热，面色潮红，小腹胀痛，舌淡，脉弦细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Headache and dizziness are related to the menstrual cycle, becoming more pronounced before or during menstruation.
  • The menstrual cycle is irregular, with timing that varies, appearing disordered overall.
  • Ringing tinnitus that comes and goes frequently.
  • Restlessness and irritability, with a tendency to become easily agitated and short-tempered.
  • The palms and soles feel hot, with a frequent sensation of internal heat.
  • Frequent facial flushing and heat, especially episodic redness over the cheeks.
  • Lower abdominal distension and pain, with a bloated, uncomfortable sensation.
  • The tongue is pale, lacking a rosy, bright color.
  • The pulse is taut like a bowstring and noticeably thin.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

调摄冲任

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • By regulating and nourishing the Chong and Ren vessels to promote a more rhythmic flow of qi and blood, it may help gradually relieve discomfort such as irregular menstrual cycles, excessive or scanty menstrual flow, menstrual abdominal pain, and breast distension.
  • By warming and nourishing the lower abdomen, promoting pelvic blood flow, and stabilizing mood and sleep, it may help gradually improve symptoms such as aversion to cold, cold sensation in the abdomen, abnormal vaginal discharge, fatigue, and irritability.

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