Globus Sensation
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽喉内有异物感，或如梅核阻塞，吞之不下，吐之不出，甚则感到窒闷难忍，精神抑郁，多虑多疑，胸闷胁胀，善太息，易怒，嗳气，舌质淡红，苔白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A persistent sensation of a foreign body stuck in the throat
- Unable to swallow it down or bring it up
- In severe cases, chest tightness and a distressing feeling of suffocation may occur
- Often accompanied by low mood, depression, and excessive worry or suspicion
- Distending discomfort in the chest and rib-side areas
- Tends to sigh frequently to relieve the discomfort
- Easily angered and irritable
- Frequent hiccups or belching
- Pale red tongue with a white coating
- Wiry and tight pulse, indicating emotional constraint and impaired qi flow
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，理气宽胸
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing the liver and relieving constraint, this approach promotes smoother qi flow and may help ease symptoms such as emotional depression, irritability, frequent sighing, distending pain in the rib-side, and chest tightness.
- By regulating qi to expand the chest and smooth the breath, it may help relieve chest tightness and distension, chest pain, labored breathing, and throat constriction.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽喉内有异物感，急躁易怒，胸闷胁胀，头痛目赤，口苦，嘈杂泛酸，便结尿黄，舌红，苔黄，脉弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A persistent sensation of something stuck in the throat
- Irritable temperament with a tendency to anger
- Chest tightness and distending pain in the rib-side areas
- Frequent headaches and red eyes
- Bitter taste in the mouth
- Epigastric discomfort with a tendency to acid reflux
- Dry, hard stools and yellowish urine
- Red tongue with a yellowish coating
- Wiry, tight, and rapid pulse, indicating exuberant liver fire
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，清肝泻火
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing the liver and relieving constraint, this approach promotes smoother qi flow and may help ease emotional depression, irritability, frequent sighing, distending pain in the rib-side, and chest tightness.
- At the same time, it clears stagnant fire from the liver and settles upward-blazing heat, which may help reduce bitter or dry mouth, red eyes, head distension, facial flushing, irritability, and restlessness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽部不适，似有物堵塞，吐之不出，胸憋气短，胃脘胀满，嗳气不舒，舌质暗、边有瘀斑，舌苔白，脉涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A persistent uncomfortable sensation in the throat, as if something is stuck
- Feeling like vomiting but unable to bring anything up
- Chest tightness and a tendency to shortness of breath
- Epigastric fullness and discomfort
- Frequent belching that does not relieve the discomfort
- Dark tongue color with visible stasis spots on the edges
- White tongue coating
- Rough, hesitant pulse indicating sluggish circulation of qi and blood with stasis obstruction
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
行气疏肝，活血化瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By promoting qi movement and resolving liver qi stagnation, this approach smooths qi flow and may help relieve rib-side distending pain, chest tightness, emotional depression, irritability, and frequent sighing.
- By invigorating blood circulation and resolving stasis, this method gradually eases pain and may help reduce fixed, stabbing pain, tenderness, local hardness, or bruising.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽喉内有异物感，善思多虑不解，胸闷心悸，失眠健忘，面色萎黄，头晕，神疲倦怠，易汗，纳谷不馨，舌淡，苔薄白，脉弦细或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A persistent sensation of something stuck in the throat
- Prone to overthinking and preoccupation, with difficulty resolving emotional distress
- Chest tightness and frequent palpitations
- Poor sleep with a tendency to insomnia and forgetfulness
- Sallow complexion lacking luster
- Easily dizzy
- Physical fatigue and lack of strength
- Tends to sweat easily
- Poor appetite with a lack of taste for food
- Pale tongue with a thin white coating
- Wiry-thin or thin-rapid pulse, indicating qi and blood insufficiency with heart-spleen deficiency
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养血，养心安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing qi and nourishing blood, this method helps restore vitality and blood nourishment, potentially easing fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and pale nails.
- At the same time, it nourishes the heart spirit and calms the mind, which may help reduce palpitations, insomnia with excessive dreaming, easy startling, anxiety, restlessness, and forgetfulness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽喉内有异物感，病久虚烦少寐，烦躁易怒，头晕心悸，颧红，手足心热，口干咽燥，或见盗汗，舌红，苔薄，脉弦细或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A persistent sensation of something stuck in the throat
- Prolonged course with mental restlessness and difficulty falling asleep at night
- Irritable temperament with a tendency to anger
- Frequent dizziness and palpitations
- Redness over the cheekbones
- Warm sensation in the palms and soles
- Dry mouth and throat
- Sometimes experiences night sweats during sleep
- Red tongue with a relatively thin coating
- Wiry-thin or thin-rapid pulse, indicating yin deficiency with internal heat
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热养阴，滋阴降火
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By clearing heat and nourishing body fluids, this method reduces internal heat and supplements yin, potentially easing dry mouth and throat, irritability, sore throat, dry cough with scanty phlegm, insomnia, and excessive dreaming.
- By moistening the body and replenishing yin fluids to subdue deficiency fire, it may help relieve intermittent afternoon or night fevers, warm palms and soles, night sweats, facial flushing, thirst, and dry throat.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咽喉内有异物感，常见痰多难咯，或有咳嗽痰白，肢倦，纳呆，舌胖苔白腻，脉滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A persistent sensation of something stuck in the throat
- Excessive phlegm that is difficult to expectorate
- Sometimes coughs with white phlegm
- Physical fatigue and lack of strength
- Poor appetite with little desire to eat
- Plump, enlarged tongue with a white, greasy coating
- Slippery pulse, indicating phlegm-dampness obstruction
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾和胃，理气化痰
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By regulating the spleen and stomach and strengthening their transformative function, this approach smoothes digestion and may help relieve poor appetite, post-meal bloating, epigastric stuffiness, physical fatigue, and loose stools.
- By promoting qi flow and resolving thick phlegm-dampness, it helps make phlegm easier to expel and may reduce chest tightness, cough with profuse phlegm, the sensation of phlegm or a foreign body in the throat, belching, acid reflux, nausea, and vomiting.
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