Plasma Cell Mastitis

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

结块红肿疼痛，或伴有溃破出脓；乳头溢液或乳头凹陷，有粉刺样物溢出；或伴有发热、头痛。舌质红，苔黄腻，脉滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • There may be lumps with redness, swelling, and pain, which may rupture and discharge pus.
  • The nipple may have discharge or become retracted, and there may be a secretion resembling comedone-like discharge.
  • Fever and headache may occur simultaneously.
  • The tongue tends to be red.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
  • The pulse feels slippery and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏肝清热，和营消肿

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help soothe liver qi and clear internal heat, reducing discomfort such as distension and fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, irritability, bitter taste, or red eyes.
  • May help harmonize the nutritive level and reduce swelling, alleviating localized redness, swelling, heat, pain, or induration.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

脓肿自溃或切开后脓水淋漓，久不收口，时发时敛，局部可有僵硬肿块，皮色暗红或不红。舌质淡或红，苔薄黄，脉弦

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • After the abscess ruptures spontaneously or is incised, it may continually ooze pus, leaving the wound moist.
  • The wound heals very slowly, with delayed closure.
  • The condition may aggravate and then alleviate, with recurrent episodes.
  • A firm mass can be felt locally.
  • The skin color appears dark red, or may not look red.
  • The tongue color is pale or reddish.
  • The tongue coating is thin and yellow.
  • The pulse feels taut, like a tightened string.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

扶正托毒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help support the body’s vital energy, reducing discomfort such as low stamina, easy fatigue, or a lusterless complexion.
  • May help eliminate pathogenic factors, reducing symptoms like persistent non-healing sores or redness, swelling, and pain.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肿块经久不消，局部皮色瘀暗，质地中或偏硬，伴有疼痛或触痛，未见溃脓。舌质暗红或有瘀斑，苔薄或腻，脉滑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The lump persists for a long time without subsiding, showing no noticeable reduction over time.
  • The local skin color is dark or purplish, appearing as a stasis-like dark hue.
  • It feels moderately firm to the touch, not soft.
  • There is often pain and discomfort, which worsens when pressed.
  • There is no ulceration on the surface, and no pus discharge is observed.
  • The tongue is dark red, or shows purplish-dark spots and petechiae.
  • The tongue coating is thin, or may feel greasy covering the tongue surface.
  • The pulse feels slippery and flows smoothly.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血祛瘀，化痰散结

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help promote blood circulation and clear stasis, reducing pain, ecchymosis, or menstrual irregularities.
  • May help resolve phlegm and dissipate masses, reducing difficulty in expectoration, throat obstruction, or internal lumps.

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