Reactive Arthritis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节肿胀疼痛剧烈，畏寒喜暖，大便虚溏，小便清长或频多，舌质淡胖苔白腻，脉弦紧或沉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints become swollen and markedly painful, and symptoms worsen with movement or pressure.
- There is an aversion to cold, discomfort increases with cold exposure, and warmth helps relieve symptoms.
- Stools are loose, soft, and unformed.
- Urine is clear, volume tends to be increased with longer voiding times, or urinary frequency is higher.
- The tongue appears pale and is slightly enlarged and puffy.
- The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the tongue surface looks less fresh.
- The pulse feels taut and tight like a drawn string, or becomes wiry when pressed deeper.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温经散寒祛湿痛络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm the channels → Warm the meridians, resolve cold in the channels, and reduce stiffness and cold pain.
- Dispel cold → Drive out internal or local cold, relieving symptoms that worsen with cold and improve with warmth.
- Remove dampness → Resolve excess damp-turbidity in the body, reducing heaviness, stickiness, swelling, and a feeling of joint weight.
- Unblock the collaterals → Dredge the channels and collaterals, promote smoother flow of qi and blood, and improve numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节红肿、灼热、疼痛，大便黏滞或干结，尿黄赤，舌红苔黄腻，脉弦数或细促
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints are red, swollen, and have a burning sensation with marked pain; they feel hot to the touch.
- Stools are sticky, heavy, and unsatisfactory, or dry and difficult to pass.
- Urine is yellowish-red and appears darker than usual.
- The tongue appears red, and the tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
- The pulse feels string-like and taut, or thin and slightly rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热利湿疏经通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heat → Reduce internal stagnant heat, relieving redness, swelling, burning sensations, thirst, sore throat, and irritability.
- Drain dampness → Promote the elimination of damp-turbidity, easing heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and difficult urination.
- Soothe the channels → Relax the sinews and channels, relieve tightness and spasms, and make joints and muscles more flexible.
- Unblock the collaterals → Dredge the channels, collaterals, and microcirculation, promote smoother flow of qi and blood, and reduce numbness, soreness, distension, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节隐痛，乏力，畏寒喜暖，大便稀泻，完谷不化，舌淡晦苔薄白或 水 润，脉细弦、沉、缓
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints have a dull, vague ache and feel uncomfortable during movement.
- There is a feeling of fatigue and lack of strength, making daily activities tiring.
- There is an aversion to cold, discomfort worsens with cold exposure, and warmth helps relieve symptoms.
- Stools are loose, frequency increases, and there is a tendency toward diarrhea.
- Undigested food particles can be seen in the stool.
- The tongue looks pale and slightly dull, lacking a bright red appearance.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, or the tongue surface appears moist and shiny.
- The pulse is thin and wiry, or can only be felt clearly when pressed deeper, or is slightly slow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温补脾肾温经通络散寒除湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm and tonify the spleen and kidneys → Warm and support spleen-kidney yang, promote the generation and transformation of qi, blood, and fluids, and improve poor appetite, loose stools, cold intolerance, fatigue, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, and excessive water-dampness.
- Warm the channels → Warm the meridians, resolve cold congealing, and relieve tightness, stiffness, and cold pain.
- Unblock the collaterals → Dredge the collateral pathways and microcirculation, promote smoother flow of qi and blood, and reduce numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
- Dispel cold → Drive out internal or local cold, relieving symptoms that worsen with cold and improve with warmth.
- Eliminate dampness → Transform stagnant damp-turbidity and promote fluid metabolism, reducing heaviness, stickiness, swelling, and a feeling of joint weight.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节隐痛、局部灼热感，大便干结，小便黄赤，舌红少苔，脉细数或细弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints have a dull ache with a local sensation of heat and burning.
- Stools are dry and hard, and bowel movements are not smooth.
- Urine is yellowish-red and appears darker than usual.
- The tongue looks red with a reduced coating.
- The pulse is thin and slightly rapid, or thin and wiry.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋补肝肾活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish the liver and kidneys → Enrich liver-kidney essence, blood, yin, and yang, improving symptoms such as lower back and knee soreness and weakness, dizziness, tinnitus, and fatigue, and enhance physical stamina and recovery.
- Invigorate blood → Promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, reducing swelling, stabbing pain, and stiffness.
- Unblock the collaterals → Dredge the channels, collaterals, and microcirculation, promote smoother flow of qi and blood, and improve numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
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