Fibromyalgia Syndrome
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
周身窜痛，疼痛拒按，烦躁易怒；舌质暗红或有瘀斑，苔白或黄，脉弦涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- There is migratory pain throughout the body, with the sensation of pain moving back and forth between different areas.
- The pain is aggravated by pressure, and touching or pressing firmly obviously worsens the discomfort.
- Irritability and a tendency to anger, with significant mood swings and difficulty calming down.
- When extending the tongue, the tongue body appears dark or reddish, or there may be ecchymosis on the tongue surface.
- The tongue coating is white or yellow.
- On palpation, the pulse feels taut like a tight string and slightly rough, giving a choppy sensation under the finger.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁理气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Soothe the Liver → Relax constrained Liver Qi, promote the smooth flow of Qi, and relieve distension and oppression in the hypochondrium, emotional depression, and irritability.
- Relieve Stagnation → Resolve Qi stagnation, alleviate chest and hypochondriac fullness and oppression, sensation of a lump in the throat, and restlessness.
- Regulate Qi → Harmonize the ascending, descending, and flow of Qi, improve distension, wandering pain, and pulling discomfort.
- Relieve Pain → Directly alleviate pain, especially effective for distending, wandering, or stabbing pain caused by Liver Qi Stagnation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
周身酸痛，困重发僵，阴雨天加重；舌黯紫或有瘀斑，舌苔白腻，脉弦滑或涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- There is generalized muscle soreness throughout the body.
- The body feels heavy and stiff, lacking flexibility.
- Symptoms worsen during rainy or damp weather.
- The tongue appears purplish or dark, or there may be ecchymosis on the tongue surface.
- The tongue coating is white and greasy.
- The pulse feels taut like a tight string and smooth, or it may be slightly rough and hesitant.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
祛湿化痰活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Eliminate Dampness → Remove damp turbidity from the body, relieve heaviness, stickiness, edema, and heaviness in the joints.
- Resolve Phlegm → Dissolve sticky phlegm turbidity, reduce difficult expectoration, chest tightness, and a sensation of blockage.
- Activate Blood → Promote blood circulation, relieve pain, swelling, and stiffness caused by blood stasis.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Dredge the channels and microcirculation, allow smoother flow of Qi and blood, and reduce numbness, pulling pain, and limited movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
周身隐痛挛急，气短乏力，面色淡白或萎黄；舌质淡，苔薄白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- There is dull aching pain throughout the body accompanied by a sensation of muscle tightness and spasms.
- Shortness of breath and fatigue are present, with exertion easily causing breathlessness and weakness.
- The complexion is pale or sallow and lusterless.
- The tongue appears pale and slightly withered.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, not thick or greasy.
- The pulse is thin and feeble, lacking strength in its beats.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养血舒筋活络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Boost Qi → Enhance physical strength and organ function, replenish Qi, and relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, and tiredness.
- Nourish Blood → Enrich the blood, making Qi and blood more abundant, and improve poor complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and limb numbness.
- Relax the Sinews → Relax muscles and sinews, reduce muscle spasms and pulling sensations, and improve difficulty in extension and flexion.
- Enliven the Collaterals → Dredge collateral channels and microcirculation, promote smoother Qi and blood flow, and relieve numbness, pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
偏阴虚：筋肌烦痛，眩晕耳鸣，腰膝酸软而痛；舌红少苔，脉细数
偏阳虚：筋脉拘挛冷痛，腰膝以下尤甚，夜尿频多；舌淡苔白，脉沉弦无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- When Yin deficiency predominates, there is pain in the muscles and sinews with a sense of restlessness and discomfort.
- When Yin deficiency predominates, dizziness and blurred vision occur, accompanied by tinnitus.
- When Yin deficiency predominates, the lower back and knees feel sore and weak, with pain.
- When Yin deficiency predominates, the tongue appears red with a scanty coating.
- When Yin deficiency predominates, the pulse is thin and rapid.
- When Yang deficiency predominates, the muscles and sinews feel tight with a cold pain.
- When Yang deficiency predominates, the symptoms are more pronounced below the lower back and knees.
- When Yang deficiency predominates, there is increased frequency of nighttime urination, with large volumes.
- When Yang deficiency predominates, the tongue appears pale with a white coating.
- When Yang deficiency predominates, the pulse is only clearly felt upon deep palpation, and it feels taut like a tight string but lacks strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
偏阴虚：滋补肝肾强壮筋骨偏阳虚：补肾益肝温阳通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- For Yin Deficiency:
- Nourish and Enrich the Liver and Kidney → Replenish the essence, blood, and Yin fluids of the Liver and Kidney, relieve dry mouth and throat, tidal fever, night sweats, and soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees.
- Strengthen Sinews and Bones → Enhance the strength and resilience of sinews and bones, reduce soreness, weakness, and joint instability, and improve strength in movement.
- For Yang Deficiency:
- Tonify the Kidney and Boost the Liver → Replenish Kidney Qi and regulate the Liver, improve physical strength and recovery, and relieve aversion to cold, cold limbs, and fatigue.
- Warm Yang and Unblock the Collaterals → Warm and support Yang Qi and dredge the channels, resolve cold stagnation, and alleviate cold pain, numbness, and difficulty in flexion and extension.
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