Melasma
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
面生褐色斑，弥漫分布，伴有情绪抑郁，爱生闷气，或急躁易怒，胸胁胀满，口苦咽干，女子月经不调，经前乳房胀痛，舌质红，苔薄，脉弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Brown patches appear on the face, diffuse but not in large confluent areas with clear borders.
- Low mood and tendency to hold in anger, or easily irritable and prone to outbursts.
- Distention and discomfort in the chest and rib sides.
- Bitter taste in the mouth and dry throat.
- Irregular menstruation, with more pronounced breast distention and pain before periods.
- The tongue is slightly red with a thin coating.
- The pulse feels taut and thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝理气，活血消斑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps soothe the liver and regulate qi movement, relieving discomfort such as chest and rib-side distention, emotional depression, or belching.
- Helps promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, reducing skin pigmentation, bruising, or menstrual irregularities.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
面部斑色褐黑，面色晦暗，常有慢性疾病，伴头晕耳鸣，腰膝酸软，失眠健忘，烦热盗汗，舌质红，少苔，脉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Facial patches are brownish-black, appearing deep and dark.
- Dull, lusterless complexion.
- Often accompanied by a long-standing chronic health condition.
- Dizziness and ringing in the ears (tinnitus).
- Soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees.
- Poor sleep, prone to insomnia, and declining memory.
- Often feels internal heat, with night sweats during sleep.
- The tongue is red with little coating.
- The pulse is thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益肝肾，滋阴降火
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps tonify the liver and kidneys, alleviating discomfort such as lower back and knee soreness, dizziness, tinnitus, or blurred vision.
- Helps nourish yin fluids and clear deficiency fire, reducing symptoms like irritability, insomnia, dry mouth and throat, or tidal fever and night sweats.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
斑色灰褐，状如尘土附着，伴有疲乏无力，纳呆困倦，月经色淡，白带量多，舌淡胖边有齿痕，脉濡或细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Patches are grayish-brown, appearing as if dusted, and are hard to fade.
- Easily feels tired and weak.
- Poor appetite and constant drowsiness.
- Menstrual flow is pale in color.
- Increased vaginal discharge.
- The tongue is pale and slightly enlarged, with tooth marks on the edges.
- The pulse feels soft or thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，祛湿消斑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps strengthen the spleen and stomach and replenish energy, relieving discomfort such as poor appetite, fatigue, or bloating and loose stools.
- Helps eliminate dampness from the body and reduce blemishes, alleviating heaviness, skin pigmentation, or swelling.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
斑色灰褐或黑褐，伴有慢性肝病，或月经色暗有血块，或痛经，舌暗红有瘀斑，脉涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Patches are grayish-brown or blackish-brown, appearing deep and hard to fade.
- Often coexists with chronic liver conditions, and physical constitution tends to be weak.
- Menstrual flow is dark with blood clots, or accompanied by noticeable abdominal pain during periods.
- The tongue is dark red, with purplish dark stasis spots or patches on the surface.
- The pulse feels choppy and unsmooth, lacking a fluid beat.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
理气活血，化瘀消斑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps regulate qi movement and promote blood circulation, relieving discomfort such as chest and rib-side oppression, abdominal distension and pain, or dull complexion.
- Helps resolve stasis and diminish blemishes, reducing skin pigmentation, bruising, or menstrual irregularities.
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