Incomplete Intestinal Obstruction
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹胀如鼓，腹中转气，腹痛时作时止，痛无定处，恶心，呕吐，无矢气，便闭；舌淡，苔薄白，脉弦紧
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen feels distended like a drum, with a pressing sensation and obvious discomfort.
- There is a sensation of gas moving around inside the abdomen; you can feel it rushing back and forth.
- Abdominal pain comes and goes; it is not constant.
- The pain location is not fixed; it occurs here and there from time to time.
- You may feel nauseated, with a churning sensation in the stomach and an urge to vomit.
- Vomiting may occur, expelling the stomach contents.
- There is almost no flatulence; passing gas is minimal.
- Bowel movements are obstructed and difficult to pass.
- The tongue is pale in color, appearing overall lighter than normal.
- The tongue coating is thin and white; the surface shows a thin white coating.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string and is tense.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
行气导滞，理气通便
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that regulate qi movement and resolve obstruction, allowing qi to flow more smoothly, helping to relieve discomfort such as chest and abdominal distension, epigastric stuffiness, belching, and post-meal bloating.
- Use methods that regulate intestinal qi movement and promote bowel movements, making defecation smoother, and may help relieve constipation, straining during bowel movements, abdominal distension and pain, or a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹胀，腹痛拒按，口干口臭，大便秘结，或有身热，烦渴引饮，小便短赤；舌红，舌苔黄腻或燥，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen becomes distended, with a pressing and stuffy sensation causing significant discomfort.
- Abdominal pain occurs and is aggravated by pressure; pressing makes it worse.
- The mouth feels dry, and there is halitosis; breath smells unpleasant.
- Stools are dry and hard, requiring effort to pass, and bowel movements are not smooth.
- Generalized fever may occur, with an uncomfortable feeling of heat throughout the body.
- There is irritability and thirst, with a constant desire to drink water to quench it.
- Urine output is scanty, dark yellow in color, and urination occurs in short durations.
- The tongue is red in color, appearing overall redder than normal.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, or yellow and somewhat dry.
- The pulse feels slippery and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
泄热导滞，通里攻下
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that clear internal heat and resolve obstruction, gradually dispersing accumulated matter, helping to relieve discomfort such as fever with irritability, dry and bitter mouth, halitosis, epigastric stuffiness and distension, belching, acid reflux, and constipation.
- Use methods that promote intestinal evacuation and expel interior excess pathogens through the stool, facilitating smoother bowel movements and helping relieve dry, hard stools, straining during bowel movements, abdominal distension and pain, anal burning, or a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹痛拒按，痛无休止，痛位不移，腹胀如鼓，腹中转气停止，无矢气，便闭；舌红有瘀斑，苔黄，脉弦涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Severe abdominal pain, aggravated by pressure; pressing makes it worse.
- The pain is almost incessant and continuous without much relief.
- The pain is fixed at one location, rarely changing place.
- The abdomen is distended like a drum, with a pressing and stuffy sensation causing extreme discomfort.
- The previously felt sensation of gas churning in the abdomen has disappeared, as if the qi is blocked.
- There is almost no flatulence; passing gas is minimal.
- Bowel movements cannot be passed; it is very difficult or even impossible to defecate.
- The tongue is red with visible purplish stasis spots or patches on the surface.
- The tongue surface is covered with a yellowish coating.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string and also rough or hesitant under the finger.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，行气通便
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that invigorate blood circulation and resolve stasis, promoting smoother flow of qi and blood, helping to relieve discomfort such as stabbing pain or fixed pain, pain upon pressure, local hardness, or bluish-purple ecchymosis.
- Use methods that promote qi movement and bowel movements, smoothing intestinal passage and helping relieve constipation, dry hard stools, straining during bowel movements, abdominal distension and pain, or a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部胀满，疼痛，忽急忽缓，恶心呕吐，口干，大便不通，乏力，面白无华，或有潮热盗汗；舌淡或红，苔白，脉细弱或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The abdomen is distended and painful; the pain sometimes comes on suddenly and intensively, and sometimes eases.
- Nausea and vomiting may occur, with a churning sensation in the stomach and an urge to vomit.
- The mouth feels dry, with a sense of insufficient moisture.
- Bowel movements are obstructed and difficult; stools are hard to pass.
- The body feels fatigued, lacking energy and easily becoming listless.
- The complexion is pale and lusterless, giving a poor overall appearance.
- Tidal fever may occur occasionally, along with sweating easily after falling asleep.
- The tongue is pale or may appear reddish; overall it is light in color or slightly red.
- The tongue coating is white, covering the surface with a white layer.
- The pulse feels thin and forceless, or thin and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴，润肠通便
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Use methods that supplement the middle qi and nourish yin fluids, increasing physical stamina and moistening the body, helping to relieve fatigue, shortness of breath, weakness, dry mouth and throat, irritability, and agitation.
- Use methods that moisten the intestines and soften stool, making bowel movements smoother and helping relieve dry, hard stools, straining during bowel movements, constipation, abdominal distension, or a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
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