Psoriatic Arthritis

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

皮疹色红，鳞屑垢厚，关节红肿疼痛，舌红，苔黄腻，脉象滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The skin rash is red, with a notably bright red color.
  • Thick scales accumulate on the surface of the skin lesions, appearing like a heavy layer of dandruff.
  • Joints become red, swollen, and painful, with increased discomfort upon movement or pressure.
  • The tongue appears red when extended, with a noticeably red color.
  • The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, making the tongue surface look unclean.
  • The pulse feels smooth and somewhat rapid upon palpation.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热利湿消肿止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear heat → reduces internal heat accumulation, alleviating redness, swelling, burning sensation, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
  • Drain dampness → promotes the discharge of damp turbidity through urine/sweat, relieving heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and difficult urination.
  • Reduce swelling → decreases tissue edema and distention, easing tenderness, tightness, and restricted movement.
  • Relieve pain → directly alleviates pain, reducing soreness, stabbing pain, and pulling discomfort.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节红肿热痛，斑疹红赤，皮肤鳞屑生长快，皮肤炊热肿胀；舌质红，苔薄黄，脉滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Joints are red, swollen, hot, and painful, feeling warm to the touch.
  • Obvious red maculopapular rashes appear on the body, red and shiny.
  • Scales on the skin surface grow rapidly, with noticeable scaling.
  • The skin feels hot, burning, and swollen.
  • The tongue appears red when extended, with a relatively red color.
  • The tongue coating is thin and yellow.
  • The pulse feels smooth and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热解毒蠲痹止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear heat → reduces internal “excessive heat/fire”, alleviating redness, swelling, burning, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
  • Detoxify → clears inflammatory “toxic pathogens”, reduces redness, swelling, suppuration, and foul odor, promoting healing.
  • Dispel bi → “juan” means remove, “bi” means obstruction and pain; eliminates obstruction in the joints and meridians, reducing soreness, stiffness, and discomfort aggravated by cold and dampness, and improves mobility.
  • Relieve pain → directly alleviates pain, reducing stabbing, pulling, and tenderness, improving flexibility of movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节肿痛畸形，痛处固定，疼痛夜甚，关节局部皮色紫黯或舌质黯，舌上有瘀斑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Joints become swollen and painful, and may become deformed.
  • The pain is fixed in location and does not migrate, remaining in the original spot even with pressure or movement.
  • The pain is more pronounced at night, worsening considerably.
  • The skin over the joints may appear purplish-dark, or the tongue appears dark rather than bright red when extended.
  • When extending the tongue, ecchymosis (purple spots) can be seen on the tongue surface.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

化痰通络活血化瘀蠲痹止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Transform phlegm → resolves thick, sticky phlegm in the body, reducing sputum and making it easier to expectorate, relieving chest tightness, stickiness, and a sense of obstruction.
  • Unblock collaterals → dredges the meridians and microcirculation, promoting smoother flow of qi and blood, improving numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
  • Activate blood → promotes blood circulation, alleviating pain, swelling, and pulling discomfort caused by stasis.
  • Disperse stasis → resolves stagnant blood, gradually reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, and purplish-dark masses.
  • Dispel bi → “juan” means remove, “bi” means obstruction and pain; eliminates obstruction in the joints and meridians, reducing soreness, heaviness, and stiffness.
  • Relieve pain → directly alleviates pain, improving discomfort and limitations in daily activities.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节疼痛不甚或有畸形，皮疹干燥淡红，鳞屑细碎，舌淡苔净，脉细滑。

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Joint pain is not severe, or there may be joint deformity.
  • The rash is relatively dry and pale red in color.
  • The scales on the surface of skin lesions are fine and crumbly.
  • The tongue is pale in color, with a relatively clean surface and almost no coating.
  • The pulse feels thin and smooth.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

润燥祛风养血止痛润燥祛风养血止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Moisten dryness → increases moisture in the body and skin, relieving dry skin, constipation, dry cough with little sputum, and dryness of the mouth, eyes, and nose.
  • Dispel wind → drives away “wind pathogens”, reducing migratory pain, itching, and aversion to wind.
  • Nourish blood → enriches the blood, strengthens qi and blood, improving poor complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and limb numbness.
  • Relieve pain → directly alleviates pain, reducing soreness, stabbing, and pulling discomfort, allowing smoother movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节肿痛或有畸形，关节及皮损色紫黯，痛如针刺，痛处固定拒按，疼痛夜甚，关节及皮损色紫黯，舌暗或舌上有瘀斑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Joints may be swollen and painful, or have deformity.
  • The joints and skin lesions appear purplish-dark, lacking brightness.
  • The pain is sharp and stabbing like a needle, very pronounced.
  • The pain is fixed and does not migrate; the area is tender and averse to touch.
  • The pain worsens significantly at night, becoming more unbearable after dark.
  • The joints and skin lesions appear purplish-dark and still lack a fresh, bright color.
  • When the tongue is extended, the surface appears dark, or purple ecchymosis can be seen.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血祛风化瘀止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Activate blood → promotes blood circulation, alleviating pain, stiffness, and numbness caused by stasis.
  • Dispel wind → drives away “wind pathogens”, reducing migratory soreness, aversion to wind, and itching.
  • Disperse stasis → resolves stagnant blood, gradually reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, and purplish-dark swelling.
  • Relieve pain → directly alleviates pain, improving pulling discomfort and restricted movement.

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