Oral Ulcers

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

溃疡形状不规则，大小不等，相互融合，基底平坦，有黄色分泌物覆盖，周缘轻度水肿高起，溃疡周围充血面大而明显，灼热疼痛，以青壮年多见。可伴有面红口热，口渴口臭，唇红舌燥，大便干结，小便短黄，舌质偏红，舌苔黄或厚腻，脉实有力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Ulcers in the mouth are irregular in shape and vary in size; some may merge together.
  • The ulcer surface is flat and covered with a layer of yellow secretion.
  • The ulcer margins are mildly swollen, with marked surrounding redness.
  • Pain is intense, often with a burning sensation.
  • Commonly seen in young and middle-aged adults.
  • Often accompanied by facial flushing, a hot sensation in the mouth, thirst, and bad breath.
  • Red lips and dry tongue.
  • Dry, hard stools with difficult passage; urine is yellowish and scanty.
  • The tongue body is reddish with a yellow or thick-greasy coating.
  • The pulse is forceful, indicating vigorous excess fire-heat in the body.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热泻火，凉血通便

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Use cooling and fire-clearing methods to reduce excessive internal fire-heat, helping relieve discomfort such as feverishness, irritability, dry mouth, thirst, sore throat, bad breath, and thick yellow tongue coating.
  • At the same time, cool and nourish the blood while promoting bowel movements to ease constipation, anal burning, and bloody stools with bright red blood.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

溃疡面积较小，可发生多个，多在舌尖、舌前部或舌侧缘发生，色红而痛。可伴有口热，口渴，心悸，心烦性急，小便短赤涩痛，夜寐不安，舌尖红，舌苔薄黄，脉实略数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The oral ulcers are not large but may appear in multiple spots at once.
  • They often occur on the tip, front part, or lateral edges of the tongue.
  • The ulcer surface is red and accompanied by noticeable pain.
  • Often accompanied by a hot sensation in the mouth and thirst.
  • Palpitations, vexation, and irritability may occur.
  • Urination is scanty, reddish, and may be accompanied by difficult, painful urination.
  • Restless sleep at night and susceptibility to insomnia.
  • The tongue tip is red with a thin yellow coating.
  • The pulse is rapid and forceful, indicating exuberant heart fire in the body.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清心降火，凉血通便

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Use heart-clearing and fire-descending methods to clear heat from the heart, helping relieve discomfort such as vexation, irritability, mouth and tongue sores, dry mouth, thirst, insomnia, vivid dreaming, and a red tongue tip.
  • At the same time, cool and nourish the blood while promoting bowel movements to ease constipation, anal burning, and stool that is bright red or dry and knotted.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

多见于女性，伴情志不舒，常由情绪改变或月经周期而发作或加重。溃疡可发生在舌侧边缘或唇黏膜及其他部位，米粒大小，形状可不规则，黄或灰白色基底，边缘有较宽红晕围绕。可伴有胸胁胀闷，心烦易怒，口苦咽干，失眠不寐，乳房经前胀痛，月经多有失调，经多或量少，并有血块痛经，舌尖红或暗红有瘀点，舌苔薄黄，脉弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • More commonly seen in female patients.
  • Ulcers often flare up or worsen during emotional fluctuations or the menstrual cycle.
  • Commonly appear on the lateral edges of the tongue and inner lips; they are rice-grain sized and may be irregular in shape.
  • The ulcer base is yellow or grayish-white with a distinct red rim and noticeable pain.
  • Accompanied by distending oppression in the chest and hypochondrium, vexation, and irritability.
  • Often feel bitterness in the mouth and dryness of the throat.
  • Easily suffer from insomnia with poor sleep quality.
  • Menstruation is often irregular, with either heavy or scanty flow, often accompanied by blood clots and dysmenorrhea.
  • Premenstrual breast distension and pain.
  • The tongue tip is red or dark red, sometimes with stasis spots; the coating is thin and yellow.
  • The pulse is wiry and rapid, indicating a connection to emotional factors and impeded flow of qi and blood.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清肝泻火，理气凉血

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Use liver-clearing and fire-dispelling methods to bring down the heat constrained in the liver, helping relieve irritability, alleviating distension and pain in the hypochondrium, bitter taste, dry mouth, and red eyes.
  • At the same time, smooth the flow of qi mechanism and cool and nourish the blood to promote smoother qi and blood circulation, calming upward-pressing feverish sensations and reducing facial flushing, oral heat, or minor bleeding.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

溃疡反复发作大小不等，多在几毫米以内，数目1~3个。溃疡为圆形或椭圆形，基底呈浅蝶状，基底平坦；呈灰黄色，有少许渗出液，边缘整齐清楚稍隆起，周围绕以狭窄红晕，有轻度灼痛。常伴有口燥咽干，口渴不欲饮，面热唇红或颧红，头晕耳鸣，心悸健忘，心烦性急，手足心热，腰膝酸软，尿黄便干，舌尖或舌质偏红，苔薄黄，脉沉细数或细弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Ulcers frequently recur, varying in size but generally not exceeding a few millimeters.
  • Usually 1 to 3 ulcers appear at a time.
  • They are mostly round or oval in shape, with a shallow, flat base.
  • The surface appears grayish-yellow with a small amount of exudate.
  • The margins are well-defined, slightly elevated, and surrounded by a narrow red rim.
  • Pain is generally mild, mostly a slight burning pain.
  • Often accompanied by dry mouth and throat, with thirst but no strong desire for water.
  • A hot sensation in the face, red lips, or flushed cheeks.
  • Dizziness, tinnitus, palpitations, forgetfulness, vexation, and irritability may also appear.
  • Warmth in the palms and soles, and soreness and weakness in the lower back and knees.
  • Yellowish urine and dry, knotted stools.
  • The tongue tip or the entire tongue body is reddish with a thin yellow coating.
  • The pulse is thin and somewhat rapid, or thin and wiry, indicating correlation with yin deficiency and effulgent fire.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

滋阴清热

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Use nourishing and moistening methods to supplement bodily fluids, helping relieve discomfort such as dry mouth and throat, dry skin, vexation, irritability, insomnia, and vivid dreaming.
  • Simultaneously clear the deficiency heat caused by insufficiency of yin fluids, alleviating afternoon or nighttime feverish waves, warm palms and soles, night sweats, malar flushing, dry throat and soreness, and dry cough with scant sputum.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

溃疡数目少，1~2个，面积较大，多在3mm以上，溃疡周围水肿高起，疮色暗红或淡红，基底色呈灰白发暗，愈合缓慢。常伴有头沉头重，口淡乏味，口黏不渴，食欲不振，胃脘满闷，便溏腹泻乏力，舌淡胖嫩有齿痕，舌苔白滑腻，脉沉缓或细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The number of oral ulcers is small, usually only 1 to 2.
  • The ulcers are relatively large, mostly over 3 mm.
  • There is noticeable swelling around them, with a dark red or pale red color.
  • The ulcer base is grayish-white or dusky in color, and healing is relatively slow.
  • Often accompanied by a heavy sensation in the head.
  • A bland taste in the mouth with no flavor, a sticky sensation but no thirst.
  • Poor appetite, easily feeling unable to eat.
  • A sensation of dull distension and discomfort in the stomach.
  • Stools are loose and soft, with a tendency for diarrhea, accompanied by physical fatigue.
  • The tongue is pale, enlarged, and has tooth marks.
  • The tongue coating is white, slippery, and greasy.
  • The pulse is deep and slow or thin and weak, indicating insufficient spleen-stomach transportation and transformation function.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

益气健脾，淡渗祛湿

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Use qi-supplementing and spleen-stomach regulating methods to strengthen transportation and transformation, helping improve appetite and digestion, and relieve discomfort such as easy fatigue, post-meal bloating, poor appetite, and loose stools.
  • Use gentle diuretic and dampness-draining methods to gradually eliminate excess dampness, alleviating heavy body sensation, heavy and fatigued limbs, facial or lower leg puffiness, sticky mouth, thick-greasy tongue coating, and scanty urination.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

口疮反复发作，溃疡面积小，数目少，单个或多个，溃疡色呈淡红，基底呈淡黄色，溃疡较浅在，红肿轻，痛不重，病程长，愈合慢。常兼纳少便溏，神疲乏力，腹胀，面色萎黄，舌淡苔白，脉濡数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Oral ulcers appear repeatedly.
  • The ulcers are small, few in number, and can be single or multiple.
  • The ulcers are pale red with a pale yellow base.
  • The ulcers are relatively shallow, with no obvious surrounding redness and swelling, and the pain is not severe.
  • The disease course is prolonged, and healing is slow.
  • Often accompanied by reduced appetite and loose, soft stools.
  • The body is easily fatigued and lacks strength.
  • A tendency for abdominal distension and discomfort.
  • The complexion is yellowish and lacks luster.
  • The tongue is pale with a white coating.
  • The pulse is relatively weak and slightly rapid, indicating spleen-stomach weakness and qi-blood insufficiency.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补中益气，健脾和胃

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Use methods that supplement the qi of the middle burner to strengthen physical strength and digestion, helping relieve discomfort such as easy fatigue, shortness of breath, low and weak voice, and prolonged work exhaustion.
  • Simultaneously, regulate the spleen and stomach for smoother digestion, improving poor appetite, post-meal bloating, epigastric oppression, belching, acid reflux, nausea, and loose stools.

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