Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
干咳无痰，或痰少而黏带血，咳嗽剧烈，阵咳，咳甚胸痛，口鼻咽干
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Dry cough with little or no phlegm
- or scanty, sticky phlegm that may contain streaks of blood
- Severe coughing, often in paroxysms
- Chest pain when coughing is intense
- Dry mouth, nose and throat
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肺润燥，宣肺止咳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clears lung heat, moistens dry airways, and helps relieve dry mouth, dry throat, dry cough with scanty phlegm, or sticky phlegm that is difficult to expectorate
- Unblocks and descends lung qi to reduce cough and chest tightness, promoting smoother breathing
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
咳嗽痰黄，呼吸急促，心烦口苦，大便秘结。舌红苔黄，脉弦滑或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Cough with yellow phlegm
- Rapid breathing and easily becoming short of breath
- Irritability and bitter taste in the mouth
- Dry, hard stools and constipation
- Tongue appears red with yellow coating
- Pulse feels taut or slippery and rapid (noted during physical examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清肺化痰，止咳平喘
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clears phlegm and heat from the lungs to thin sputum for easier expectoration, and helps relieve throat congestion and chest tightness
- Reduces coughing, alleviates shortness of breath and rapid breathing, and promotes steadier, smoother respiration
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
动喘明显，心慌乏力，口唇爪甲紫黯，肌肤甲错。舌质暗或有瘀点、瘀斑，脉沉细或涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Marked breathlessness on exertion
- Palpitations and fatigue
- Purplish or dark lips and fingernails
- Dull, dry, and rough skin
- Dark tongue color, or purple spots and patches on the tongue
- Pulse is deep and thin, or irregular (noted during physical examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气活血，通络散瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Tonifies qi and promotes blood circulation to help build stamina and vitality, relieving discomforts such as fatigue, shortness of breath, and cold hands and feet
- Unblocks channels and resolves blood stasis to relieve stabbing pain, distension, numbness, stiffness, and bruising, and helps reduce swelling and support recovery
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胸闷气短，动则加重，气怯声低，汗出恶风，腰膝酸软，五心烦热。舌红少苔，脉沉细无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Chest tightness and shortness of breath, worse after exertion
- Low voice and lack of strength
- Easily sweats and is sensitive to drafts or wind
- Soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees
- Warm palms, soles, and chest, with a sense of vexing heat
- Tongue appears red with little coating
- Pulse is deep, thin and weak (noted during physical examination)
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
调补肺肾，养阴益气
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Simultaneously regulates and tonifies the lung and kidney to help boost physical strength and immunity, enhance respiratory endurance, and relieve chronic cough, shortness of breath, susceptibility to colds, lower back and knee soreness, chills, or frequent nighttime urination
- Nourishes body fluids and supplements original qi to alleviate dry cough and throat, night sweats, irritability, and fatigue, supporting overall recovery
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