Premature Ventricular Contractions
- Liver Qi Stagnation Pattern
- Heart Vessel Stasis Pattern
- Phlegm-Fire Harassing the Heart Pattern
- Qi and Yin Deficiency Pattern
- Heart Yang Deficiency Pattern
- Yin Deficiency with Effulgent Fire Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
以心悸怔忡、胸闷胁胀、情绪变化可诱发或加重为主症，兼见嗳气叹息、心烦失眠、大便不畅等症，舌质暗红，苔薄黄，脉弦或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May experience palpitations with an uneasy feeling, chest tightness accompanied by distension in both rib sides; these symptoms are easily triggered or markedly worsened by emotional fluctuations.
- There may also be belching, involuntary sighing, inner irritability with poor sleep, and difficulty passing stools smoothly.
- The tongue body tends to be darkish red.
- The tongue coating is relatively thin and yellow.
- The pulse feels taut like a bowstring, or may show intermittent pauses and irregular beats.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，理气复脉
Plain-Language Explanation:
- First stabilize the body’s yin fluids, reduce outward dissipation of fluids (such as heavy sweating, dry mouth and irritability), and keep the interior moisturized and stable.
- At the same time, rapidly warm and support the declining yang qi, so that the hands and feet become warm again, breathing strengthens, and the critical signs of cold limbs and faint, barely perceptible pulse are reversed.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
以心悸怔忡、心前区刺痛、入夜尤甚为主症，兼见面色紫暗、唇甲青紫等症，舌质紫暗或有瘀斑，脉涩或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel flustered with an uneasy heartbeat and occasional sensation of shock; there is a stabbing, needle-like pain in the chest, which becomes more pronounced and uncomfortable at night.
- The complexion appears dark or purplish, the lips and nails look bluish-purple, clearly lacking healthy color.
- The tongue body is purplish or dark, and sometimes purplish spots resembling stasis marks can be seen.
- The pulse feels rough and choppy, or may appear intermittent with skipped and irregular beats.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀通脉
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By promoting blood circulation and resolving internal blood stasis, the accumulation gradually dissipates.
- This helps open the vessels, smooth blood supply, and relieve discomfort such as stabbing pain, numbness, and coldness caused by blood stasis.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
以心悸怔忡、突发突止、胸脘胀满为主症，兼见胸中郁热、烦躁不安、失眠多梦、口黏纳呆、大便黏而不爽、尿黄等症，舌质红，苔白厚腻或黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel palpitations with an uneasy heartbeat, and occasionally a sense of alarm and fright.
- These symptoms often appear suddenly and resolve abruptly, showing a recurrent pattern.
- The chest and upper abdomen feel distended and full, giving uncomfortable pressure.
- The chest may feel stuffy and warm, with an internal sensation of heat and discomfort.
- There may be restlessness and irritability, and it is difficult to calm down.
- Falling asleep at night is difficult, waking easily, and dreaming is frequent.
- The mouth feels sticky and greasy, appetite is poor, and there is little interest in eating.
- Stools tend to be sticky and sluggish, with a sense of incomplete evacuation.
- Urine is yellow and darker than usual.
- The tongue body is reddish, looking relatively bright red.
- The tongue coating is white, relatively thick and greasy, or yellow and sticky.
- The pulse feels smooth and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清心化痰，镇静安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By clearing stagnant heat in the heart and transforming phlegm-turbidity, the pattern of phlegm-fire harassing the heart is alleviated, and symptoms such as chest tightness, irritability, and thick sticky phlegm gradually ease.
- By calming the mind, soothing tension and fright, and stabilizing heart qi, palpitations, insomnia, and excessive dreaming are improved, leading to more stable emotions and sleep.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
以心悸怔忡、五心烦热、气短乏力为主症，兼见形体消瘦、声低气怯、口干欲饮、潮热盗汗、失眠多梦等症，舌红，少苔，脉细数兼结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel palpitations with an uneasy heartbeat, occasional alarm and fright, and find it hard to calm down.
- The palms, soles, and chest feel hot; there is inner irritability and a sensation of heat in the chest.
- Breathing may be short and easily labored, accompanied by marked fatigue and loss of energy when doing anything.
- The body may gradually become thin and emaciated, appearing lean.
- The voice is weak and low with shortness of breath, often afraid to speak much or tiring after just a few sentences.
- There is a dry mouth with a desire to drink, often feeling thirsty as the mouth and tongue feel dry.
- In the afternoon or at night, there may be tidal fever, and night sweats easily occur after falling asleep, soaking clothes and bedding.
- Difficulty falling asleep or easily waking at night, and frequent dreaming during sleep.
- The tongue body is reddish, looking more red and bright than usual.
- The tongue coating is very scanty and the tongue surface appears relatively smooth and clean.
- The pulse is thin and somewhat rapid, and may show intermittent pauses and irregular beats.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养阴，宁心安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By supplementing genuine qi and nourishing yin fluids, physical strength improves, dry mouth and throat are relieved, and the interior becomes more moisturized and stable.
- By calming the mind, soothing tension and fright, emotions and sleep become more stable, and palpitations gradually ease.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
以心悸怔忡、形寒肢冷为主症，兼见胸闷气短、面色㿠白、畏寒喜温，或伴心痛等症，舌淡，苔白，脉沉迟或结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel palpitations with an uneasy heartbeat, and occasionally a sense of alarm and fright.
- The body feels cold and averse to cold, and the hands and feet are often icy.
- The chest feels oppressed and uncomfortable, and breathing becomes short.
- The complexion is very pale without a ruddy glow, and the overall coloring looks poor.
- There is a marked aversion to cold and a preference for warmth, feeling more comfortable near heat sources.
- At times there is pain in the heart area that causes unease.
- The tongue body is pale, looking not rosy enough.
- The tongue coating is white, and the tongue surface appears whitish.
- The pulse is deep and slow, or shows intermittent pauses and irregular rhythms.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温补心阳，安神定悸
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By warming and supplementing heart yang, the heart’s driving force is strengthened, and discomforts such as aversion to cold, cold hands and feet, chest tightness, and fatigue gradually ease.
- By calming the mind, soothing tension and fright, palpitations and unease are reduced, leading to more stable emotions and more restful sleep.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
以心悸不安、汗出烦躁、头晕目眩为主症，兼见五心烦热，胸闷胸痛，潮热盗汗，夜寐不安，舌质淡或暗红，有瘀点、瘀斑，苔薄白或少苔，脉象可见促、结、代、细、数、疾、涩等，而以细数多见
Plain-Language Explanation:
- You may feel flustered and unsettled, sweat easily with inner irritability, and also experience dizziness and blurred vision.
- The palms, soles, and chest feel hot, along with inner restlessness.
- The chest may feel tight and accompanied by pain.
- There may be spells of heat in the afternoon or at night, and after falling asleep, sweating easily soaks clothes and bedding.
- Sleep at night is not restful; one wakes easily or dreams frequently.
- The tongue body may be pale or dark reddish.
- Small purplish dots or purple patchy stasis marks can be seen on the tongue surface.
- The tongue coating is relatively thin and white, or very scanty and almost absent.
- The pulse may present as rapid and irregular, intermittently pausing, thin and rapid, or rough and unsmooth, with the thin and rapid pulse being most common.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴泻火，养心安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By nourishing body fluids and clearing descending the deficiency fire, the imbalance between excessive heart fire and insufficient yin is corrected, gradually relieving irritability, thirst, tidal fever, and night sweats.
- By nurturing the heart-mind, stabilizing emotions, and soothing tension and fright, palpitations and insomnia with excessive dreaming are alleviated, leading to more restful sleep.
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