Pediatric Functional Constipation
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
大便干结，小便短赤，口干口臭；舌苔黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stools are dry and hard, difficult to pass, with some straining.
- Urine output is low, with a dark yellow color.
- Significant dry mouth, heavy breath, and halitosis.
- The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy; the tongue surface appears sticky.
- The pulse feels slippery and somewhat rapid, with a hurried beat.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
消积导滞，清热润肠
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Resolves food stagnation and accumulation in the intestines, reducing sensations of distension, belching, and blocked bowel movements.
- Clears heat from the intestines and moistens the bowels, softens dry stools, promotes smoother bowel movements, and reduces straining and pain.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
虽有便意，无力努挣，腹胀纳呆；舌淡，苔薄，脉虚
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Has the urge to defecate but lacks strength during bowel movements.
- Abdominal distension and discomfort with poor appetite.
- The tongue appears pale.
- The tongue coating is very thin.
- The pulse is weak and forceless.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益肺脾，行气润肠
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Strengthens the functions of the Lungs and Spleen, enhances resistance and transformation capacity, and alleviates shortness of breath, fatigue, and poor appetite.
- Promotes the smooth flow of Qi, relieves distension and blockage, and supports bowel motility.
- Moistens the intestines and softens stools, making bowel movements smoother and reducing straining and pain.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
虽有便意而努挣乏力，神疲色萎，发育迟缓；舌淡苔薄，脉沉迟
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Has the urge to defecate but lacks strength, strains without force, and the entire process is labored and difficult.
- Mental fatigue and lack of energy, with a sallow, lusterless complexion and poor color.
- Growth and development appear slow or delayed.
- The tongue is pale with a very thin coating and little coverage.
- The pulse feels deep, somewhat slow, and lacking in strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益肾阴，培本通便
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourishes Kidney Yin and body fluids, calms deficiency heat, and alleviates discomfort such as dry mouth, tidal fever, and night sweats; soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees may be eased.
- Strengthens the body’s foundational energy, moistens the intestines and enhances motility, softens dry stools, promotes smooth bowel movements, and reduces straining and pain.
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