Rectal Cancer

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

里急后重,肛门灼热;舌红,苔黄腻,脉滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • A persistent feeling of incomplete bowel movements with tenesmus and a downward-bearing or heavy sensation after defecation.
  • The anus feels hot or burning, with a sensation of scorching discomfort.
  • The tongue body appears redder, with a relatively bright red color.
  • The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy, with a sticky, unclean surface.
  • The pulse feels slippery and somewhat rapid, with a slightly hurried beating rate.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热利湿

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clears excessive internal heat, helping relieve redness, burning sensations, dry mouth, irritability, sore throat, and other discomforts.
  • Promotes the discharge of damp-turbidity, alleviating heaviness, stickiness, edema, or excessive secretions.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

泻下脓血,色紫暗,可触及包块;舌质紫暗或有斑点,脉弦涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Stools contain a mixture of pus and blood, appearing obviously abnormal.
  • Discharge is dark purplish in color, appearing dull and not fresh.
  • A palpable mass can be felt, with a noticeable raised area upon touch.
  • The tongue body appears dark or purplish, possibly with petechiae or spots.
  • The pulse feels tight, unsmooth, and hesitant, with a rough quality.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

行气化瘀,解毒散结

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Promotes the smooth movement of qi and invigorates blood circulation, resolving stagnant blood stasis, and relieving distension, belching, stabbing pain, and other discomforts.
  • Clears turbid toxins, disperses masses and hard nodules, reduces redness, swelling, heat, and pain, and supports the recovery of affected tissues.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

面色萎黄,少气乏力,神疲懒言;舌淡,苔薄白,脉沉细无力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The complexion appears yellowish and dull, lacking luster and looking unwell.
  • Easily becomes short of breath and lacks stamina, feeling fatigued after slight exertion.
  • Feels mentally exhausted and listless, speaking little and lacking motivation to talk.
  • The tongue body appears pale, indicating insufficient blood color overall.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white, with no thick covering on the tongue surface.
  • The pulse feels deeper on palpation, fine, small, and forceless, lacking strength.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

补气益血

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Supplements original qi, enhances physical strength and endurance, and helps relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, spontaneous sweating, and disinclination to speak.
  • Nourishes the blood, improving pale complexion, dizziness, and palpitations, and stabilizing vigor and energy.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

五心烦热,盗汗,舌红;少苔,脉细数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Feeling waves of heat in the palms, soles, and chest, accompanied by irritability and restlessness.
  • Prone to night sweating, often sweating after falling asleep that lessens upon waking.
  • The tongue body appears redder than normal.
  • The tongue coating is scanty; the tongue surface is nearly without coating.
  • The pulse is thin and somewhat rapid, with a relatively hurried rhythm.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

滋养肝肾

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Replenishes fluids and nutrients, stabilizing the body’s foundational energy and recovery capacity.
  • Regulates the functional dynamics of the liver and kidneys, relieving soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, and unsettled sleep.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

小便清长,舌淡胖,苔白滑,脉沉细微

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Urine is clear, pale, and copious, with the flow often lasting relatively long.
  • The tongue body is pale and appears slightly puffy and enlarged.
  • The tongue coating is white, smooth, and moist, with a slick surface.
  • The pulse is only palpable at a deeper level, fine, small, and very weak in strength.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

温补脾肾

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Warms and strengthens the digestive and absorptive functions, invigorating appetite and intestinal activity, and relieving cold intolerance, diarrhea, poor appetite, fatigue, and related discomforts.
  • Boosts the body’s foundational fire and fundamental energy, stabilizing fluid metabolism and excretion, and easing lower back and knee soreness, frequent or nighttime urination, and chronic loose stools or diarrhea.

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