Postpartum Bi Syndrome

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肢体关节、肌肉疼痛或酸痛,面色无华,倦怠乏力,舌淡暗,苔薄白腻,脉细弱

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Pain or soreness in the joints and muscles of the limbs, with discomfort during movement.
  • The complexion lacks luster, appearing dull and not rosy.
  • Feeling of fatigue and lack of strength, easily becoming weak during activities.
  • The tongue appears pale and slightly dark, lacking a bright red color.
  • The tongue coating is thin, white, and greasy, making the tongue surface look unclear.
  • The pulse feels thin and weak, lacking strength.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

益气养血活血通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Tonify Qi → May help improve physical strength and organ functions, strengthen Qi dynamic, and relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, and reluctance to speak.
  • Nourish Blood → Nourishes the blood aspect, supports a fuller Qi and blood supply, and may improve a dull complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and limb numbness.
  • Invigorate Blood → Promotes blood circulation, resolves stasis and obstruction, and may relieve pain, stiffness, and swelling.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Dredges the meridians and microcirculation, promotes smoother Qi and blood flow, and may improve numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肢体关节冷痛,遇寒则痛剧,得热则痛减,恶风畏寒,手足寒凉,舌质淡红或黯红,舌苔薄白,脉弦紧或弦缓或浮

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The limbs and joints feel cold and painful.
  • Pain worsens significantly with exposure to cold; the colder it is, the more intense the pain.
  • Pain may be relieved by warmth or when the area is kept warm.
  • Discomfort when exposed to wind, accompanied by aversion to cold.
  • The hands and feet are often cold to the touch.
  • The tongue body is pale with some redness, or slightly dark and reddish.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white.
  • The pulse may feel taut and tight like a stretched string, or taut but slightly slow, or floating and distinctly superficial.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

散寒除湿通络止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dispel Cold → Helps drive away internal or localized cold qi, may relieve cold pain and stiffness, and ease the discomfort that worsens with cold and improves with warmth.
  • Eliminate Dampness → Transforms internal dampness and turbidity, promotes water metabolism, and may reduce heaviness, stickiness, swelling, and joint weightiness.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Dredges the meridians and microcirculation, promotes smoother Qi and blood flow, and may improve numbness, pulling sensations, and restricted movement.
  • Relieve Pain → Directly soothes pain, may reduce soreness, distension, stabbing pain, and tenderness, and improve comfort during movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肢体关节冷痛,伴见肌肉痿软无力,神疲困倦,面色㿠白,腰背酸痛,下肢酸软,足跟冷痛,舌淡胖或边有齿痕,舌苔白滑,脉沉细无力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The limbs and joints feel cold and painful, with obvious discomfort during daily activities.
  • The muscles feel weak and flaccid, making it easy to lack strength when walking or exerting effort.
  • Mental fatigue and drowsiness are present, with an overall lack of motivation and desire to rest.
  • The complexion is pale and lacks luster, appearing noticeably wan.
  • The waist and back feel sore, distended, and painful, with discomfort when turning or bearing weight.
  • The lower limbs feel sore, distended, weak, and easily fatigued when walking.
  • The heels feel cold and painful, with discomfort when standing or walking.
  • The tongue body is pale, puffy, and enlarged, and tooth marks may be visible on the edges.
  • The tongue coating is white and slippery-moist, with a glossy, wet-looking surface.
  • The pulse is felt only at a deeper level and is very thin and forceless, lacking strength.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

散寒除湿温阳止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dispel Cold → Helps drive away internal or localized cold qi, may relieve cold pain and stiffness, and ease the discomfort that worsens with cold and improves with warmth.
  • Eliminate Dampness → Transforms excess dampness and turbidity, may reduce heaviness, stickiness, swelling, and joint weightiness.
  • Warm Yang → Strengthens Yang qi, warms the body and boosts vitality, and may improve cold intolerance, cold limbs, fatigue, and predominant water-dampness.
  • Relieve Pain → Directly soothes pain, may reduce soreness, distension, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort, making movement easier.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节触热、疼痛,肢体沉重酸软无力,或见发热,烦闷不安,或有发热,舌质红,苔黄腻,脉濡数或滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints feel hot to the touch and are painful.
  • The limbs feel heavy, sore, and weak.
  • There may be fever, along with irritability and restlessness.
  • The tongue appears reddish.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
  • The pulse feels soft and rapid, or smooth and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热利湿通络止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear Heat → Reduces internal stagnant heat, may alleviate redness, swelling, burning sensations, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
  • Drain Dampness → Promotes the elimination of dampness and turbidity (via urination, sweating, etc.), and may relieve heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and difficult urination.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Dredges the meridians and microcirculation, promotes smoother Qi and blood flow, and may improve numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
  • Relieve Pain → Directly soothes pain, may reduce soreness, distension, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节肌肉疼痛,或刺痛,痛处固定不移,恶露不净、少腹疼痛,夹有血块,舌质黯有瘀点、瘀斑,脉弦涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Pain in the joints and muscles, with obvious discomfort during movement or pressure.
  • There may be a stabbing pain like needles, sharp in nature.
  • The pain is fixed in one location and does not migrate, remaining in the same place when pressed or moved.
  • Lochia persists longer than normal, with intermittent bleeding that is difficult to stop.
  • Pain and discomfort in the lower abdomen, affecting daily activities during episodes.
  • The discharged blood contains clots, darker in color and somewhat sticky.
  • The tongue color is dark, with visible stasis spots or petechiae on the surface.
  • The pulse feels taut like a stretched string and is rough, with a hesitant, choppy sensation under the fingers.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

养血活血化瘀通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Nourish Blood → Nourishes the blood aspect, supports fuller Qi and blood, and may improve poor complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and limb numbness.
  • Invigorate Blood → Promotes blood circulation, and may relieve pain, stiffness, and swelling caused by stasis and obstruction.
  • Transform Stasis → Resolves stagnant blood, and may gradually reduce stabbing pain, fixed pain, and dark purple ecchymosis.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Dredges the meridians and microcirculation, promotes smoother Qi and blood flow, and may lessen numbness, pulling sensations, and restricted movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节、肌肉胀痛,程度常因情绪波动而改变,心烦易怒,口干口苦,舌质淡,苔薄白,脉弦滑或脉弦涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Distending pain appears in the joints and muscles, with a dull, bloated sensation.
  • The intensity of the pain often changes with emotional fluctuations.
  • Irritability and a tendency to become angry easily.
  • Dryness and bitter taste in the mouth.
  • The tongue appears pale.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white.
  • The pulse may feel taut like a stretched string and smooth, or taut but slightly rough and hesitant.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏肝解郁通络止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Soothe the Liver → Spreads constrained Liver Qi, promotes the smooth flow of Qi, and may relieve hypochondriac distension and oppression, emotional depression, and irritability.
  • Relieve Stagnation → Resolves Qi stagnation, and may ease chest and hypochondriac stuffiness, a sensation of obstruction in the throat, and vexation.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Dredges the meridians and microcirculation, promotes smoother Qi and blood flow, and may reduce numbness, soreness, distension, and tightness, and improve restricted movement.
  • Relieve Pain → Directly soothes pain, particularly the distending, wandering, or stabbing pain caused by Liver Qi stagnation and collateral obstruction.

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