Primary Liver Cancer
- Liver Qi Stagnation with Spleen Deficiency Pattern
- Qi Stagnation and Blood Stasis Pattern
- Liver-Gallbladder Damp-Heat Pattern
- Liver-Kidney Yin Deficiency Pattern
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部肿块、胁肋疼痛、腹胀、神疲乏力、纳呆、心烦易怒，口苦咽干、舌淡红苔白、脉弦或缓
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A palpable mass or lump may be felt in the abdomen.
- Pain may be felt in the sides of the ribcage, especially along the rib area.
- The abdomen may feel distended, tight, and uncomfortably full.
- One may feel low in energy and physically fatigued, finding it difficult to exert effort.
- Appetite may be poor, with reduced interest in eating.
- Irritability and a tendency to become angry may occur.
- A bitter taste in the mouth and a dry, parched throat may be experienced.
- The tongue may appear pale red with a white coating.
- The pulse may feel tight and wiry, or somewhat slow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝解郁，理气健脾
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Methods that soothe Liver Qi and relieve emotional depression are used to promote smoother qi movement, helping to alleviate hypochondrium distension and pain, chest tightness, emotional depression with irritability, and frequent sighing.
- Methods that regulate qi flow and strengthen the Spleen are used to enhance digestion and transformation, helping to relieve poor appetite, post-meal abdominal bloating, epigastric stuffiness, loose stools, and general fatigue.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部肿块、胸胁脘腹胀满、面色黧黑、情志抑郁、嗳气、食欲不振，肌肤甲错，脉弦，舌质紫或见瘀斑瘀点或舌下络脉曲张、苔薄黄脉弦细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A palpable mass or lump may be felt in the abdomen.
- There may be distension and a congested, oppressive sensation in the chest, rib-side areas, upper abdomen, and belly, causing discomfort.
- The complexion may appear dark or dull, with an overall lack of luster.
- The mood may be low and depressed, with a sense of emotional oppression and unease.
- Belching or eructation may occur, with a sensation of gas rising upward.
- Appetite may be poor, with little interest in eating and a diminished desire for food.
- The skin may feel rough and dry, with a scaly, fish-scale-like appearance.
- The pulse may feel tight, like a tightly stretched string.
- The tongue may appear purple, or show ecchymoses/petechiae; the sublingual veins may be distended and tortuous.
- The tongue coating may be thin and yellow.
- The pulse may feel tight, thready, and rapid, with a hurried quality.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
理气活血，化瘀消积
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Methods that smooth “stuck qi” and invigorate blood circulation are used to promote the flow of qi and blood, helping to relieve distending pain, stabbing pain, fixed-location pain, tenderness on pressure, and subcutaneous bruising.
- Methods that resolve blood stasis and gradually disperse “accumulated stagnant food” are used to help relieve post-meal fullness, epigastric stuffiness and bloating, foul breath, sour or rancid belching, constipation, or difficult bowel movements.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部肿块、身目黄染、腹水、胁肋胀痛、纳呆、口苦口干，舌红苔黄腻，脉弦滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A palpable mass or lump may be felt in the abdomen.
- The body and eyes may appear yellow, with noticeable jaundice discoloration.
- Fluid may accumulate in the abdomen, causing the belly to become distended and uncomfortably swollen.
- Distending pain may be felt in the sides of the ribcage, more pronounced along the rib area.
- Appetite may be poor, with diminished interest in eating and reduced food intake.
- A bitter taste and dryness in the mouth may be experienced, with a sensation of stickiness and parchedness.
- The tongue may appear red with a yellow, greasy coating and a sticky surface.
- The pulse may feel wiry, slippery, and rapid, with a hurried quality.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，化瘀祛湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Methods that clear internal heat and turbid toxins are used to subdue heat-related and inflammatory discomforts, helping to relieve fever, irritability, sore throat, mouth sores, red, swollen, hot skin with pain, bitter taste, and dry mouth.
- Methods that resolve stagnant blood and dispel dampness are used to promote smoother circulation and disperse that sticky sensation, helping to alleviate distension and pain or stabbing pain, tenderness on pressure, heaviness and fatigue, thick greasy tongue coating, sticky mouthfeel, or scanty dark urine.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹部肿块、胁肋隐隐作痛、低热、消瘦、发热、口干、寐差、盗汗、尿少、便秘，舌红少苔，脉细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A palpable mass or lump may be felt in the abdomen.
- Dull, lingering pain may be felt in the sides of the ribcage, persistent but not severe.
- Low-grade fever may occur, with slightly elevated body temperature and a sensation of warmth.
- The physique may become thin, with noticeable weight loss.
- Fever may occur, with elevated body temperature and an uncomfortably hot sensation.
- Dry mouth may be felt, with insufficient moisture in the oral cavity.
- Poor sleep may be experienced, with difficulty falling asleep or easy waking.
- Night sweating may occur during sleep.
- Urine output may be scanty, noticeably decreased.
- Constipation may occur, with difficult and strained bowel movements.
- The tongue may appear red with very little coating, looking relatively clean.
- The pulse may feel thready and rapid, with a hurried quality.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴补肾，养血柔肝
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourishing and moistening methods are used to replenish Kidney yin fluid and essence, helping to make the body more ‘moist’ and relieve discomforts such as dry mouth and throat, hot palms and soles, night sweats, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, tinnitus, and insomnia.
- Methods that nourish blood and calm the Liver qi are used to stabilize qi movement, helping to ease emotional depression with irritability, distending pain in the hypochondrium, dry eyes, dizziness, palpitations, or restless sleep.
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