Rheumatic Heart Disease
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸怔忡，壮热，咽干咽痛，或红肿灼热，胸闷气短，烦渴，喜冷饮。舌红紫苔黄，脉浮数或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May experience palpitations and a sense of unease, with occasional startling and pounding sensations.
- May have high fever with pronounced body heat.
- Dry and sore throat, which may be red, swollen, and have a burning sensation.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, with shortness of breath as if not getting enough air.
- Feeling irritable and thirsty, with a desire for cold drinks.
- Tongue is reddish-purple and appears darker in color.
- Tongue coating is yellow.
- Pulse is floating and rapid, or slippery and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，养心安神
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By clearing internal heat and eliminating toxic pathogens, gradually relieve heat-toxin manifestations such as fever, thirst, sore throat, bitter taste, and dark urine.
- By nourishing the heart-mind and calming the emotions, reduce palpitations, restlessness, and insomnia, promoting more restful sleep.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸，胸闷，活动后加重，咳嗽，咯痰或干咳，气短而喘，神疲乏力，或自汗，失眠健忘。舌淡苔薄白，脉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations, with an unsteady heartbeat and a fluttering sensation in the chest.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, feeling as if being pressed down when breathing.
- These symptoms worsen significantly after activity or exertion.
- May have a cough, possibly with phlegm, or a dry cough that is difficult to expel.
- Shortness of breath and wheezing, more noticeable when talking or walking.
- Easily fatigued and lacking energy, with quick exhaustion during activities.
- Sometimes spontaneous sweating, even when at rest.
- Difficulty falling asleep at night, and forgetful during the day.
- Tongue is pale with a thin white coating.
- Pulse is weak and forceless.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益心肺
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By tonifying Heart and Lung Qi and improving oxygenation, gradually relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, palpitations, chest tightness, and breathlessness on exertion.
- By stabilizing Heart Qi and disseminating Lung Qi, promote smoother breathing and better stamina, gradually reduce easy sweating, fatigue, dizziness, and palpitations.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸不安，遇寒加重，胸闷气短，畏冷肢凉，腰膝酸冷，肢体浮肿，面色㿠白，神疲乏力，小便不利或清长。舌淡苔白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations with an unsettled, irregular heartbeat causing anxiety.
- These symptoms worsen significantly with cold.
- Chest tightness and shortness of breath, often feeling like not getting enough air.
- Easily feels cold, with cold hands and feet, and limbs that feel cool to the touch.
- Soreness, distension, and coldness in the lower back and knees, with discomfort that is hard to relieve.
- Edema of the limbs or whole body, with swollen and heavy limbs.
- Pale complexion without ruddiness, overall poor vitality.
- Mentally fatigued and lacking energy, quickly exhausted and unable to summon strength.
- Difficulty urinating, or clear and copious urine over an extended period.
- Tongue is pale with white coating, appearing whitish.
- Pulse is thin and weak, lacking strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益心肾，温阳利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By tonifying Heart Qi and Kidney Qi, stabilizing the mind, and strengthening propulsive force, gradually relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, palpitations, and weak lower back and knees.
- By warming and supporting Yang Qi, promoting urination to reduce edema, and facilitating water metabolism, alleviate body edema, lower limb swelling, and urinary difficulty, gradually improving chest tightness and heaviness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
心悸怔忡，胸闷气短，得温则舒，遇寒则剧，畏寒肢凉，或局部固定刺痛，肢体紫斑，或咳嗽吐稀白痰，或脘痞腹胀，颈脉曲张，爪甲青紫，舌紫暗或瘀斑，脉细或涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May feel palpitations and restlessness, often with a sense of startling and pounding.
- Chest tightness and discomfort, with shortness of breath as if not getting enough air.
- Symptoms are noticeably relieved after warming or keeping warm.
- All discomforts worsen significantly with exposure to cold.
- Easily feels cold, with cold hands and feet that feel cool.
- May experience localized stabbing pain like needles, in fixed positions without wandering.
- Purple spots or ecchymosis may appear on the skin of the limbs.
- May cough up thin white phlegm that is clear and not viscous.
- May feel distension and fullness in the upper abdomen, with epigastric discomfort.
- Neck veins are noticeably distended and tortuous, appearing prominent.
- Nails are bluish-purple, lacking normal ruddiness.
- Tongue is dusky purple or dark, possibly with purple stasis spots or macules.
- Pulse is thin or choppy and rough, with an unsmooth sensation.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温阳益气，活血利水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- By warming and supporting Yang Qi, tonifying righteous Qi, and enhancing propulsive force and metabolism, chills, cold extremities, shortness of breath, and fatigue will gradually improve.
- By activating blood circulation, moving stasis, promoting urination to reduce edema, and facilitating water metabolism, body edema, lower limb swelling, and urinary difficulty will gradually lessen, and chest tightness and heaviness will also improve.
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