Liver Cancer
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁肋胀痛，胸闷不舒，纳呆食少，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distension and pain in both sides of the rib cage, which worsens with movement or pressure.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, with a sense of oppression and suffocation during breathing or activity.
- Poor appetite with reduced food intake, and lack of interest in food.
- The pulse feels tight and straight, like a taut string when pressed.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，健脾理气
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps soothe the liver Qi and resolve stagnation, alleviating discomfort such as distension in the chest and hypochondrium, low mood, or frequent sighing.
- Helps strengthen the spleen and stomach, reducing symptoms like poor appetite, fatigue, and loose stools.
- Helps regulate Qi movement, easing discomfort like chest oppression, abdominal distension, belching, or a stuffed sensation in the epigastric region.
- Promotes harmonious function between the liver and spleen, facilitating smooth Qi flow and gradually restoring mental and physical stability.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
痛处固定拒，脘腹胀满，舌质紫暗，有瘀斑、瘀点或瘀条
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Pain is fixed in location and does not move; pressure significantly worsens the discomfort, and the person resists being pressed.
- The upper abdomen and stomach feel distended and stuffy, with a sense of fullness and discomfort that does not easily ease even with movement.
- The tongue appears purplish and dark, lacking luster and a healthy red color when extended.
- Purple spots, petechiae, or streak-like stasis marks are visible on the tongue surface and are quite distinct.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
行气活血，化瘀抑瘤
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps regulate Qi and promote blood circulation, relieving distension in the chest, hypochondrium, or abdomen, along with belching and dull or distending pain.
- Helps invigorate blood and resolve stasis, reducing fixed stabbing pain, bruising, or menstrual irregularities.
- Helps soften and dissipate masses, inhibiting their growth and alleviating the hard pain and distending sensation of lumps and nodules.
- Helps improve local nourishment and circulation, reducing feelings of swelling, heaviness, or pulling discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
身目泛黄，口干口苦，心烦易怒，胸腹满闷，舌苔黄腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin and the whites of the eyes appear yellow, giving an obvious jaundiced appearance.
- Dry mouth with a bitter taste, noticeable when speaking or swallowing.
- Irritability and a quick temper, with significant mood swings and a tendency to become angry easily.
- A stifling and distended sensation in the chest and abdomen, making it hard to relax.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, appearing as if covered with a layer of oily yellow fur.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿，解毒消痞
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps clear internal heat and promote the discharge of dampness and turbidity, alleviating fever, irritability, body heaviness, or dark scanty urine.
- Helps expel pathogenic substances from the body, reducing discomfort such as sore throat, skin redness and swelling, or sores.
- Helps disperse fullness and distension, alleviating epigastric stuffiness and bloating that is uncomfortable upon pressure, as well as belching and acid reflux.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
五心烦热，心悸少寐，腹大如鼓，舌红少苔
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A feeling of heat in the palms, soles, and chest, accompanied by irritability and a sensation of internal burning.
- Palpitations with an uneasy feeling in the chest; light, restless sleep and frequent waking during the night.
- The abdomen is distended like a drum, appearing tight and bulging, and becomes even more uncomfortable during movement.
- The tongue is red with very little coating, so that when extended, a thick coating is barely visible.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
养阴散结，凉血解毒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps nourish the body’s Yin fluids and gradually soften masses, easing discomfort such as abdominal masses, throat lumps, or localized hard swellings and distension.
- Helps cool the blood and expel pathogenic factors, reducing symptoms like skin red spots, painful sores and swellings, or a red, swollen, and sore throat.
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