Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
便血色红，大便不畅或稀溏，或有腹痛，口苦，舌质红，苔黄腻，脉濡数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stools contain bright red blood, and reddish blood stains can be seen during defecation.
- Stools may be difficult to pass, or loose and unformed, with a feeling of incomplete evacuation.
- There may be abdominal pain, with dull or intermittent cramping during episodes.
- Bitter taste in the mouth, a persistent uncomfortable bitter sensation.
- The tongue body appears reddish, with an overall red hue.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, appearing thick and sticky on the surface.
- The pulse feels soft and somewhat rapid, with a noticeably faster rate.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热化湿，凉血止血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By clearing heat and dispelling dampness, this approach helps resolve internal heat and dampness, easing discomfort such as stuffiness, stickiness, bitter and sticky taste in the mouth, heaviness and fatigue, thick greasy tongue coating, and scanty yellowish urine.
- Using cooling and blood-nourishing methods with astringent hemostatic action to gradually stop bleeding, helping relieve epistaxis, gingival bleeding, hematochezia or hematuria, and petechiae on the skin.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
便血色红或紫暗，食少，体倦，面色萎黄，心悸，少寐，舌质淡，脉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Blood in the stool, either bright red or dark purplish, visible during defecation.
- Reduced food intake compared to usual, poor appetite, and little desire to eat.
- Easily fatigued and weak, often feeling drained when doing activities.
- The complexion is sallow and lacks luster, appearing pale and listless.
- May experience palpitations, with an unsettled heart sensation.
- Sleep is short and not restful; overall sleep is insufficient and unstable.
- The tongue body appears pale, with an overall light color.
- The pulse feels thin and thread-like under the finger.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气摄血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing middle qi and consolidating spleen qi, this approach helps the qi to better contain the blood, reducing bleeding symptoms such as epistaxis, gingival bleeding, heavy menstrual bleeding, skin petechiae, hematochezia, or hematuria.
- It also helps boost physical strength and stabilize breathing, easing discomfort such as easy fatigue, shortness of breath, lack of strength, a pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations, thereby making bleeding less likely to recur and recovery more stable.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
便血紫暗，甚则黑色，腹部隐痛，喜热饮，面色不华，神倦懒言，便溏，舌质淡，脉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Blood in the stool is dark purple or dark, and may become black in severe cases.
- Dull, lingering pain in the abdomen.
- Prefers warm or hot drinks.
- The complexion lacks radiance and appears dull.
- Mentally weary and fatigued, with little desire to speak.
- Stools are loose and unformed, watery in consistency.
- The tongue body appears pale, with an overall light color.
- The pulse feels thin and thread-like under the finger.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾温中，养血止血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By warming the middle burner and supporting spleen qi, this method helps strengthen digestion and transformation, easing discomfort such as aversion to cold, cold abdomen, poor appetite, post-meal bloating, heaviness and fatigue, and loose watery stools.
- By nourishing the blood and stabilizing blood flow, this approach helps gradually stop bleeding, relieving a pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations, and reducing symptoms such as epistaxis, gingival bleeding, or heavy menstrual bleeding.
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