Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
- Liver Qi Stagnation Pattern
- Liver Qi Stagnation with Spleen Deficiency Pattern
- Phlegm-Dampness Internal Obstruction Pattern
- Damp-Heat Accumulation Pattern
- Phlegm and Blood Stasis Binding Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
肝区不适，两胁胀痛，抑郁烦闷，胸闷、喜叹息，时有嗳气，纳食减少，大便不调，月经不调，乳房胀痛，舌质红，苔白而薄，脉弦滑或弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Discomfort in the liver area, with distending pain in both sides of the ribs.
- Feeling of mental oppression and irritability, with emotional unease.
- Chest oppression and discomfort, with frequent involuntary sighing.
- Occasional belching and hiccups that come and go.
- Decreased appetite and reduced interest in eating.
- Irregular bowel movements, with unstable timing and consistency of stools.
- Irregular menstruation, with unstable timing or cycles.
- Breast distension and pain, affecting comfort.
- The tongue appears red, slightly redder than usual.
- The tongue coating is white and thin, not very thick.
- The pulse feels wiry and slippery, or wiry and thready.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
舒肝解郁，理气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing liver qi and relieving stagnation, it may help promote smoother qi flow, alleviating discomfort such as distending pain in the hypochondrium, chest oppression, emotional depression, irritability, and frequent sighing.
- By regulating stagnated qi and relieving pain, it may help gradually reduce upper abdominal fullness, distension, pain or dull ache, while also improving belching, acid reflux, hiccups, and poor appetite.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁肋胀闷，抑郁不舒，倦怠乏力，腹痛欲泻，腹胀不适，食欲不振，恶心欲吐，时欲太息，舌质淡红，苔薄白或白，边有齿痕，脉弦细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Feeling of stuffiness and distension in both sides of the ribs, causing discomfort.
- Feeling of mental oppression and emotional unease, as if stuck and hard to unfold.
- Feeling of fatigue and lack of energy, with bodily weakness and inability to exert force.
- Abdominal pain, often with a frequent sensation of needing to have loose stools.
- Abdominal bloating and tightness, causing discomfort and a feeling of fullness.
- Poor appetite accompanied by nausea and the sensation of wanting to vomit.
- Sometimes involuntarily sighs, as if needing to let out a breath.
- The tongue appears pale red, lighter than usual.
- The tongue coating is thin white or white, not very thick.
- Tooth marks on the edges of the tongue, appearing as a ring of indentations.
- The pulse feels wiry and thready, thin and taut to the touch.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
舒肝解郁，健脾理气
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By soothing liver qi and relieving stagnation, it may help promote smoother qi flow, alleviating discomfort such as distending pain in the hypochondrium, chest oppression, emotional depression, irritability, and frequent sighing.
- By regulating the spleen and stomach and smoothing qi flow, it may help enhance transformation and transportation functions, relieving poor appetite, post-meal bloating, upper abdominal stuffiness, belching, acid reflux, loose stools or difficulty in bowel movements.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
体态肥胖，右胁不适或胀闷，周身困重，大便黏滞不爽，脘腹胀满，倦怠无力，食欲不振，头晕恶心，舌质淡，舌苔白腻，脉沉滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Body tends to be overweight, overall physique appears relatively obese.
- Discomfort or stuffy distension in the right rib area.
- Whole body feels tired and heavy, feeling weighed down even when walking.
- Stools are sticky and difficult to clean, leaving a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
- Upper abdomen and stomach feel stuffy and bloated, with abdominal distension causing discomfort.
- Feeling fatigued and lacking energy, with limbs feeling weak.
- Poor appetite, with reduced interest in food and low desire to eat.
- Dizziness accompanied by nausea and the sensation of wanting to vomit.
- The tongue appears pale, lighter than usual.
- The tongue coating is white and greasy, appearing somewhat slimy.
- The pulse feels deep and slippery, becoming more apparent with deeper pressure.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，化痰祛湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By regulating the spleen and stomach and supplementing central qi, it may help enhance transformation and transportation, relieving discomfort such as poor appetite, post-meal bloating, upper abdominal stuffiness, bodily fatigue, loose stools or thin stools.
- By resolving sticky phlegm-dampness and promoting the expulsion of dampness, it may help expel phlegm more easily, reduce bodily heaviness and stickiness, alleviating chest oppression, cough, sensation of phlegm or foreign body in the throat, thick greasy tongue coating, and scanty urine.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
右胁肋部胀痛，周身困重，脘腹胀满或疼痛，大便黏腻不爽，身目发黄，小便色黄，口中黏滞，口干口苦，舌质红，舌苔黄腻，脉弦滑或濡数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distending pain in the right rib area, located near the right ribcage.
- Whole body feels tired and heavy, feeling weighed down when walking.
- Upper abdomen and stomach feel stuffy and bloated, or may be painful.
- Stools are sticky and difficult to clean, leaving a sense of incomplete evacuation.
- Skin and eyes appear yellow, with a distinctly yellowish hue.
- Urine is dark yellow in color.
- Sticky sensation in the mouth, feeling greasy and unclear.
- Feeling of dry mouth with a bitter taste.
- The tongue appears red, slightly redder than usual.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, appearing somewhat slimy.
- The pulse feels wiry and slippery, or soft and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，利湿化浊
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By clearing internal ‘heat’ and turbid toxins, it may help reduce fever, irritability, sore throat, mouth and tongue sores, red, hot, painful skin, bitter taste and dry mouth.
- By promoting urination and resolving turbidity, it may help dispel sticky and heavy sensations, relieving bodily heaviness, fatigue, chest oppression, nausea, poor appetite, sticky mouth, thick greasy tongue coating, scanty yellow urine, or sticky, difficult-to-pass stools.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁肋刺痛或钝痛，胁下痞块，面色晦暗，形体肥胖，胸脘痞满，咯吐痰涎，纳呆厌油，四肢沉重，舌质暗红、有瘀斑，舌体胖大，边有齿痕，苔腻，脉弦滑或涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stabbing pain or dull ache in the hypochondriac (rib-side) region.
- Stuffiness below the ribs as if blocked, and upon palpation feels like a mass.
- Complexion appears dark and dull, overall complexion looks unhealthy.
- Body tends to be overweight, overall physique looks relatively obese.
- Chest and upper abdomen feel stuffy as if blocked, with distension and discomfort.
- Expectoration of phlegm or drool, with accumulation in the mouth.
- Poor appetite, and aversion to greasy foods.
- Limbs feel heavy, hands and feet feel weighed down.
- The tongue color is dark red, with ecchymosis-like spots visible.
- The tongue body is enlarged, with tooth marks on the edges.
- The tongue coating appears greasy, the tongue surface looks slimy and unclear.
- The pulse feels wiry and slippery, or choppy and hesitant.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，祛痰散结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By promoting blood circulation and resolving ‘stuck blood’, it may help smooth the flow of qi and blood, alleviating stabbing pain, fixed pain sites, tenderness, local hardness or purplish ecchymosis.
- By resolving sticky phlegm-dampness and dispersing clumps, it may help soften hard masses and swelling, relieving sensations of a foreign body in the throat, difficulty expectorating phlegm, local distension pain or mass sensation.
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