Gout
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节红肿热痛，发病急骤，多兼有发热、口渴，小便短黄，舌红苔黄，或黄腻，脉弦滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints become red, swollen, and hot with pain; they feel warm to the touch.
- The onset is abrupt, and symptoms appear very quickly.
- There is often concurrent fever and thirst.
- Urine is yellowish and scanty.
- The tongue appears red with a yellow coating.
- The tongue coating may be yellow and greasy.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string, slippery, and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿通络止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear Heat → Reduce internal accumulated heat, alleviating redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
- Drain Dampness → Promote the elimination of damp-turbidity through urine/sweat, easing heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and joint heaviness.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Dredge the meridians and microcirculation, promoting the free flow of qi and blood, and improving numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
- Relieve Pain → Directly alleviate pain, reducing soreness, distension, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节症状不明显，身困倦怠，纳食减少，脘腹胀闷，舌淡胖，苔白或黄厚腻，脉细或弦滑等
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joint discomfort is not pronounced, and symptoms are not prominent.
- The body feels tired and weak, lacking energy.
- Appetite decreases, and food intake is less than usual.
- The upper abdomen and abdominal area feel distended and stuffy, with a sense of fullness and discomfort.
- The tongue body appears pale and slightly enlarged.
- The tongue coating is white or yellow, thick, and greasy.
- The pulse may be thready, or feel taut like a tightened string and slippery.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾利湿益气通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen the Spleen → Enhance the spleen and stomach’s transformation and transportation, improving digestion, absorption, and water-dampness metabolism, alleviating poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools, and heaviness.
- Drain Dampness → Promote the elimination of damp-turbidity through urine and sweat, reducing heaviness, stickiness, edema, and joint heaviness.
- Boost Qi → Increase physical strength and organ function, alleviating shortness of breath, fatigue, and reluctance to speak.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Dredge the meridians and microcirculation, promoting smoother qi and blood flow, and relieving numbness, soreness, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节痛有定处，局部不热，屈伸不利，局部肌肤麻木不仁，舌苔薄白或白腻，脉弦或濡缓
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joint pain is fixed in location and does not migrate; it remains in the same place with pressure or movement.
- The painful area does not feel hot to the touch; the local temperature is normal or slightly cool.
- Joint flexion and extension are not smooth; movement feels impeded and stiff.
- The skin near the pain may feel numb, with reduced sensation to touch.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, or white and greasy-appearing.
- The pulse may feel taut like a tightened string, or it may be soft and slightly slow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温经散寒(除湿通络)
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm the Meridians → Warm the channels and resolve cold congealment, alleviating stiffness and cold pain, and preventing aggravation from cold exposure.
- Disperse Cold → Expel cold from the body or local areas, relieving aversion to cold and cold pain, with improvement upon warmth.
- Eliminate Dampness → Remove internal damp-turbidity and promote fluid metabolism, reducing heaviness, stickiness, swelling, and joint heaviness.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Dredge the meridians and microcirculation, allowing smoother qi and blood flow, and improving numbness, cramping, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
病程长，关节疼痛反复发作，或刺痛，甚强直畸形，皮下结节，皮色紫暗，脉弦或沉涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The condition lasts a long time, dragging on without easy improvement.
- Joints experience recurrent pain, or a stabbing, needle-like pain.
- In severe cases, joints become stiff and may even develop deformities.
- Small nodules appear under the skin, feeling like small hard lumps.
- The skin appears purplish and dark, lacking in brightness.
- The pulse may feel taut like a tightened string, or it is deep and only clear upon heavy pressure, with a rough and unsmooth flow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀化痰散结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Invigorate Blood → Promote blood circulation, easing pain, stiffness, and numbness.
- Resolve Stasis → Dissolve stagnant blood, reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
- Transform Phlegm → Resolve thick, sticky phlegm in the body, alleviating chest tightness, excessive phlegm, and stickiness.
- Dissipate Nodules → Soften and dissolve hard lumps and nodules, relieving masses, tenderness, and pulling discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
日久不愈，反复发作，波及关节逐渐增多，可有痛风石发生，少数患者可有肾功能损害。舌淡胖苔白腻，脉细涩或沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The condition persists for a long time without improvement, difficult to heal.
- Symptoms recur repeatedly, improving and worsening by turns, causing distress.
- More and more joints become affected, with the scope gradually expanding.
- Tophi may appear, feeling like hard lumps.
- A few individuals may experience impaired kidney function.
- The tongue appears pale and enlarged.
- The tongue coating is white and greasy, with an unclean-looking surface.
- The pulse is thready and somewhat unsmooth, with a rough quality, or it may be deep and thin, only clear upon heavy pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾补肾祛瘀通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthen the Spleen → Enhance spleen and stomach transportation, improving poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools, heaviness, and fatigue.
- Tonify the Kidney → Nourish kidney qi/essence, alleviating soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, fatigue, frequent nighttime urination, or aversion to cold.
- Remove Stasis → Dissolve blood stasis and obstructions, gradually reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, purplish ecchymosis, and swelling.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Dredge the meridians and microcirculation, promoting smoother qi and blood flow, and improving numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
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