Polymyalgia Rheumatica
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
痛处固定，活动受限，畏寒，舌淡胖、苔白或腻，脉弦或沉紧
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Pain is fixed in one location and does not migrate; it remains in the same place when pressed or during movement.
- Range of motion is restricted; joints feel stiff and inflexible when rotating or extending.
- Aversion to cold; discomfort worsens when exposed to cold wind or low temperatures.
- The tongue body appears pale and slightly enlarged.
- The tongue coating is white, or the tongue surface looks greasy and unclear.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string, or tight when pressed at a deeper level.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
散寒祛湿通络止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Dispel Cold → Dispel internal or localized cold pathogens to relieve cold-induced pain and discomfort that worsens with cold.
- Eliminate Dampness → Remove excess dampness and turbidity from the body to relieve heaviness, stickiness, swelling and joint heaviness.
- Unblock Collaterals → Dredge the channels to promote smoother qi and blood flow, improving numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
- Relieve Pain → Directly relieve pain, and reduce soreness, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
颈肩部、臀部肌肉疼痛，痛处固定，重着，活动受限，伴发热，小便黄，大便干，舌质红、苔黄腻，脉滑或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Muscles in the neck, shoulders, and buttocks are painful, with obvious discomfort when pressed or during movement.
- Pain is relatively fixed and does not migrate; it stays in the same area.
- The affected area feels heavy and sinking.
- Range of motion is restricted; rotation or bending feels inflexible.
- Fever may occur at the same time; body temperature rises and feels hot.
- Urine is yellowish and darker than usual.
- Stools are dry, hard, and difficult to pass; bowel movements are not smooth.
- The tongue appears redder than normal.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy; the tongue surface looks unclean.
- The pulse feels slippery, or thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热祛湿通络止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear Heat → Reduce internal heat accumulation to relieve redness, swelling, burning sensation, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
- Eliminate Dampness → Remove dampness and turbidity from the body or localized areas to ease heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and joint heaviness.
- Unblock Collaterals → Dredge the channels to promote smoother qi and blood flow, improving numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
- Relieve Pain → Directly relieve pain, and reduce soreness, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
发热，盗汗，口干咽燥，消瘦，舌质红，苔少，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Fever may occur; body temperature rises and feels hot and uncomfortable.
- Night sweats easily after falling asleep; sweating gradually stops upon waking.
- Dry mouth and throat; discomfort when speaking or swallowing.
- Weight loss; appears thinner.
- The tongue appears reddish overall.
- The tongue coating is scanty, very thin, or barely visible.
- The pulse is thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴降火凉血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish Yin → Replenish body fluids and yin-blood to increase moisture and nourishment, relieving dry mouth, dry throat, tidal fever, and night sweats.
- Subdue Fire → Reduce internal fire to alleviate irritability, feverish sensation, thirst, sore throat, and facial redness.
- Cool the Blood → Reduce heat in the blood to ease skin redness, bleeding tendency, and tongue redness.
- Unblock Collaterals → Dredge the channels and microcirculation to promote smoother qi and blood flow, reducing numbness, soreness, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
颈肩部、臀部肌肉酸痛，僵硬，痛处不移，活动受限，面色黧黑，舌质暗红或瘀斑、瘀点，苔薄白，脉弦涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Muscles in the neck, shoulders, and buttocks are sore and uncomfortable during daily activities.
- Stiffness is felt; rotation or bending is not flexible enough.
- Pain is fixed and does not migrate; it remains in the same spot when pressed.
- Range of motion is restricted; movements feel impeded and clumsy.
- The facial complexion is dark and dull, appearing blackish and lusterless.
- The tongue color is dark-red, or ecchymotic spots and macules may be seen on the tongue surface.
- The tongue coating is thin and white; it does not appear thick.
- The pulse feels taut like a string and not smooth, with a rough sensation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血祛瘀化痰通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Activate Blood → Promote blood circulation to relieve pain, stiffness, and numbness.
- Dispel Stasis → Resolve static blood to reduce stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
- Resolve Phlegm → Dissolve sticky turbid phlegm in the body to relieve chest tightness, excessive sputum, and heavy, sticky sensations.
- Unblock Collaterals → Dredge the channels to promote smoother qi and blood flow, improving numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
颈肩部、臀部肌肉胀痛，胁肋胀痛，情志抑郁，易怒，喜叹息，舌质青，苔薄白，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Muscles in the neck, shoulders, and buttocks may have distending pain and feel uncomfortable when pressed or rotated.
- Distending pain is felt in both hypochondriac regions; the sides of the chest feel bloated, stuffy, and not comfortable.
- The mood is persistently depressed and low; emotional suppression makes it hard to feel at ease.
- Prone to irritability; easily angered or annoyed by slight stimulation.
- Frequent involuntary sighing; feeling chest tightness that makes one want to sigh.
- The tongue appears bluish-dark or cyanotic.
- The tongue coating is thin and white; the surface is not thick or greasy.
- The pulse feels taut like a tightened string, tight and straight under the fingers.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁理气止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Soothe the Liver → Spread constrained liver qi to relieve hypochondriac distension and pain, depressed mood, and irritability.
- Relieve Stagnation → Resolve qi stagnation to ease chest and hypochondriac tightness, a feeling of obstruction in the throat, and vexation.
- Regulate Qi → Regulate the ascending/descending and flow of qi to relieve distension, migrating pain, and pulling discomfort.
- Relieve Pain → Directly reduce pain, and improve pain and restricted movement caused by inhibited qi flow.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
颈肩部、臀部肌肉酸痛。伴面色淡白少华，腰膝酸软无力，形寒肢冷，小便清长，大便溏薄，舌淡红苔白，脉沉细或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Muscles in the neck, shoulders, and buttocks are sore; obvious discomfort when moving or pressing.
- The facial complexion is pale and lacks luster; does not look rosy.
- The lower back and knees feel sore, weak, and powerless; lack of strength when walking or exerting effort.
- Aversion to cold and cold extremities; discomfort worsens in low temperatures.
- Urine is pale and clear with relatively increased volume; urination seems prolonged.
- Stools are loose, soft, and unformed; after defecation, still not feeling fully relieved.
- The tongue appears pale with a reddish tint, and the coating is white.
- The pulse is only clear when pressed deeply and is thin, or thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋补肝肾通络止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish Liver and Kidney → Enrich the essence, blood, yin and yang of the liver and kidney to improve lower back and knee soreness, dizziness, tinnitus, fatigue, and enhance physical strength and recovery.
- Unblock Collaterals → Dredge the channels and microcirculation to promote smoother qi and blood flow, reducing numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
- Relieve Pain → Directly relieve pain, and reduce soreness, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort.
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