Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节红肿疼痛明显，触之皮温高，活动受限；肌肉疼痛重着，舌质红，苔黄腻，脉滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints are red, swollen, and noticeably painful.
  • When touched, the local skin feels warm, even hot to the touch.
  • Joint movement is limited; bending and extending are not smooth.
  • The muscles ache and feel heavy and drooping.
  • The tongue appears red when extended.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
  • The pulse is slippery and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热除湿宣痹通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear Heat → Helps reduce internal heat accumulation, easing redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
  • Resolve Dampness → Helps transform and eliminate damp-turbidity, alleviating heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and joint heaviness.
  • Disperse Impediment → Helps disperse Bi blockage in joints and meridians, clearing stagnation and enabling more flexible movement.
  • Unblock Collaterals → Helps dredge meridians and microcirculation, promoting smoother Qi and Blood flow, and reducing numbness, soreness, and tightness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

表现弛张型高热，斑疹鲜红，关节疼痛红肿，便干溲黄，舌质红，苔黄，脉数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Body temperature fluctuates with high fever, presenting as a remittent high fever.
  • Bright red rashes appear on the body, with a vivid color.
  • Joints are painful, red, and swollen, causing discomfort during movement.
  • Stools are dry and difficult to pass; urine is yellowish.
  • The tongue appears red.
  • The tongue coating is yellow, and the tongue body looks yellowish.
  • The pulse is rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热解毒祛风除湿

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear Heat → Helps reduce fire/heat signs in the body, alleviating redness, swelling, burning, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
  • Eliminate Toxin → Helps clear inflammatory toxic pathogens, subdue sores, redness, pus, and odor, and promote healing.
  • Expel Wind → Helps dispel external wind pathogens, relieving migratory aches, wind sensitivity, and headache/body pain.
  • Resolve Dampness → Helps transform excess damp-turbidity, reducing heaviness, greasiness, swelling, exudation, and joint heaviness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

畏寒肢冷，关节强痛、皮湿不高、遇冷加重，舌质淡，苔白，脉细弱

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Aversion to cold; hands and feet often feel cold.
  • Severe joint pain; the skin over the joint does not feel hot, and the pain worsens with exposure to cold.
  • The tongue appears pale.
  • The tongue coating is white, and the tongue body appears pale.
  • The pulse is thin and weak, lacking strength.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

温阳散寒利湿活络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Warm Yang → Helps support Yang Qi, boost the body’s “motivation and warmth,” and improve aversion to cold, cold limbs, fatigue, and tendency to water-dampness excess.
  • Dispel Cold → Helps expel cold from the body or local areas, relieve cold pain and stiffness, and reduce symptoms that worsen with cold and improve with warmth.
  • Drain Dampness → Helps promote water metabolism and elimination via urine or sweat, reducing heaviness, greasiness, edema, and limb heaviness.
  • Activate Collaterals → Helps unblock meridians and microcirculation, promoting smoother Qi and Blood flow, and relieving numbness, pulling pain, and limited mobility.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

病程已久，关节僵硬、变形，形体消瘦，舌红少苔或无苔，脉沉细无力或细数无力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The condition has lasted a long time, prolonged without significant improvement.
  • Joints are stiff and inflexible, and appear deformed.
  • The person looks emaciated, with a thin body build.
  • When extending the tongue, it appears red with very little or no coating.
  • The pulse is deep, fine, and forceless, or fine and rapid but also forceless.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

益气养阴补益肝肾

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Boost Qi → Helps enhance physical strength and organ function, making Qi mechanisms more adequate, and relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, and reluctance to speak.
  • Nourish Yin → Helps replenish body fluids, moisten dryness and preserve fluids, alleviating dry mouth, throat, tidal fever, and night sweats.
  • Supplement Liver and Kidney → Helps enrich Liver and Kidney essence, blood, yin and yang, improving soreness and weakness in the low back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and fatigue.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

表现为关节刺痛，或夜间加重，肿胀不明显，舌质暗红，尖边可见瘀点、瘀斑，苔薄白，脉细涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Joint pain is like a needle prick, more pronounced with movement or pressure.
  • Pain worsens at night, with more discomfort than during the day.
  • Joint swelling is not obvious; the appearance changes little but pain persists.
  • The tongue appears dark reddish, not bright red.
  • Purple spots or ecchymoses can be seen on the tongue tip or edges, showing a stagnant appearance.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white, not thick or greasy.
  • The pulse is thin and not smooth, with a slightly rough and hesitant sensation.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血化瘀舒筋通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Activate Blood → Helps promote blood circulation, reducing pain, stiffness, and numbness.
  • Transform Stasis → Helps dissolve stagnant blood, easing stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
  • Relax Sinews → Helps relax muscles and sinews, reduce spasms and pulling, and improve poor flexion and extension.
  • Unblock Collaterals → Helps dredge meridians and microcirculation, promoting smooth Qi and Blood flow, and reducing numbness, soreness, and limited movement.

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