Rheumatoid Arthritis

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节疼痛、重着，痛处游走不定，舌质淡红，苔白腻，脉濡或滑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints may feel painful, with a heavy and dragging sensation, making movement feel clumsy.
  • The pain location shifts back and forth, now here, now there, making it difficult to pinpoint.
  • The tongue color is pale-reddish, appearing relatively light and not vibrant.
  • The tongue coating is white and sticky-greasy, giving the tongue surface a greasy and unclean appearance.
  • The pulse feels soft or smooth, gentle and flowing without being harsh.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

祛风除湿通络止痛

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Dispel Wind: Expels invading Wind pathogens, which may help reduce discomfort.
  • Eliminate Dampness: Removes excess Dampness from the body, helping to relieve heaviness and stickiness.
  • Unblock the Collaterals: Opens the meridians and collaterals to promote smoother flow of Qi and blood.
  • Relieve Pain: Eases pain and reduces pain sensation.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

肢体关节冷痛、重着，局部畏寒，得寒痛剧，得热痛减，舌胖，舌质淡黯，苔白腻或白滑，脉弦缓或沉紧

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints in the limbs feel cold and painful, accompanied by a heavy and dragging sensation.
  • The painful area dislikes cold; exposure to cold wind or water noticeably worsens the discomfort.
  • Pain significantly worsens on exposure to cold, becoming more intense.
  • Pain is relieved by warmth or keeping warm; applying heat provides some comfort.
  • The tongue appears enlarged and plump, looking relatively thick.
  • The tongue color is pale with a slightly dark hue, not bright red.
  • The tongue coating is white, thick, and greasy, or white and relatively smooth and moist.
  • The pulse may feel taut like a string but slow, or only perceptible with deeper pressure and feeling tight.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

温经散寒祛湿通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Warm the Meridians: Warms the meridians to reduce internal cold, helping to ease stiffness and cold discomfort.
  • Disperse Cold: Disperses localized or internal Cold, helping to relieve cold pain and sensitivity to cold.
  • Dispel Dampness: Removes excess Dampness, helping to reduce heaviness, stickiness, and fatigue.
  • Unblock the Collaterals: Opens the meridians and collaterals to promote smoother Qi and blood flow, relieving numbness and pain.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节肌肉肿痛、重着，触之灼热或有热感，舌质红，苔黄腻，脉濡数或滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints and muscles swell and feel painful, along with a sensation of heaviness and dragging.
  • The area feels hot to the touch, with a distinct sensation of heat.
  • The tongue color is reddish, appearing relatively bright red.
  • The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy.
  • The pulse feels soft and rapid, or smooth and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热除湿宣痹通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Clear Heat: Clears internal Heat accumulation, helping to relieve redness, burning sensation, irritability, and thirst.
  • Eliminate Dampness: Resolves stagnant Dampness, helping to alleviate heaviness, stickiness, and swelling.
  • Disperse Bi Obstruction: Disperses blocked and obstructed impediments, helping to open joint and sinew blockages for more flexible movement.
  • Unblock the Collaterals: Opens meridian and collateral flow to promote smoother Qi and blood, reducing numbness, soreness, and tightness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节疼痛肿大，晨僵，关节周围或皮下出现结节，舌黯紫，苔白厚或厚腻，脉沉细涩或沉滑

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints are painful and swollen, with stiffness and discomfort during movement.
  • Joint stiffness occurs upon waking in the morning and gradually eases after moving around for a while.
  • Small nodules may appear around the joints or under the skin, feeling like small hard lumps.
  • The tongue is dark and purplish, with a dull purplish hue.
  • The tongue coating is white and thick, or white, thick, and greasy.
  • The pulse is only perceptible with deep pressure; it may be thin, rough and hesitant, or feel slightly smooth when pressed deeply.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血行瘀化痰通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Invigorate Blood → Promotes local blood circulation, helping to relieve pain, stiffness, and numbness.
  • Dispel Stasis → Resolves stagnant blood stasis, helping to ease stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
  • Transform Phlegm → Resolves sticky-turbid Phlegm in the body, helping to relieve chest tightness, profuse sputum, and heaviness.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Opens meridian and collateral flow to promote smoother Qi and blood, making movement more flexible and reducing numbness and soreness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节酸痛或隐痛，伴倦怠乏力，面色不华，舌质淡，苔薄，脉细弱或沉细无力

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints feel sore or have a dull aching pain, with discomfort during daily activities.
  • There is accompanying fatigue and lack of energy, feeling easily tired.
  • The complexion looks lusterless, appearing dull and not rosy.
  • The tongue is pale in color, looking relatively pallid.
  • The tongue coating is thin and scanty, not thick or greasy.
  • The pulse is either thin and weak, or only perceptible with deep pressure and feels thin and forceless.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

益气养血通经活络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Boost Qi → Enhances physical strength and function, supplementing Qi to relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, and lack of speech.
  • Nourish Blood → Nourishes the Blood to enrich Qi and Blood, improving dull complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and numbness in the limbs.
  • Unblock the Meridians → Opens the meridians to promote smooth flow of Qi and blood, reducing numbness, soreness, and spasms.
  • Invigorate the Collaterals → Activates blood and unblocks collateral pathways, resolving stagnation to ease pain, stiffness, and limitation of movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节肌肉疼痛，关节肿大或僵硬变形，舌红，苔薄白，脉沉弱

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Pain occurs in the joints and muscles, with a persistent feeling of discomfort and distress.
  • The joints may enlarge, become stiff, and appear somewhat deformed.
  • The tongue appears reddish, with a relatively red color.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white, not thick or greasy.
  • The pulse is only perceptible with deep pressure and feels weak.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

温补肝肾强壮筋骨

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Warmly Supplement the Liver and Kidney → Gently reinforces the Yang Qi and Essence-Blood of the Liver and Kidney, helping to improve cold intolerance, lower back and knee weakness, and fatigue.
  • Strengthen Sinews and Bones → Enhances the strength and resilience of tendons and bones, reducing soreness, weakness, and joint instability, enabling more powerful movement.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

关节疼痛，或疼痛夜甚、或刺痛，舌质黯，舌边尖有瘀点，苔薄白，脉细涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • The joints are painful.
  • The pain becomes more noticeable at night, or may feel like a stabbing sensation.
  • The tongue is dark in color, not bright red.
  • Small purplish spots can be seen on the edges or tip of the tongue.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white.
  • The pulse feels thin and uneven, with a rough and hesitant quality.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

活血化瘀舒筋通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Invigorate Blood → Promotes local blood circulation, helping to relieve pain, stiffness, and numbness.
  • Resolve Stasis → Resolves stagnant blood stasis, helping to ease stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
  • Relax the Sinews → Relaxes the muscles and sinews, relieving spasms, tightness, and pulling sensations, improving difficulty in bending and stretching.
  • Invigorate Blood → Promotes local blood circulation, helping to relieve pain, stiffness, and numbness. Resolve Stasis → Resolves stagnant blood stasis, helping to ease stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling. Relax the Sinews → Relaxes the muscles and sinews, relieving spasms, tightness, and pulling sensations, improving difficulty in bending and stretching. Unblock the Collaterals → Opens meridian and collateral flow to promote smoother Qi and blood, making movement more flexible and reducing numbness and soreness. Invigorate Blood → Promotes local blood circulation, helping to relieve pain, stiffness, and numbness.
  • Resolve Stasis → Resolves stagnant blood stasis, helping to ease stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
  • Relax the Sinews → Relaxes the muscles and sinews, relieving spasms, tightness, and pulling sensations, improving difficulty in bending and stretching.
  • Unblock the Collaterals → Opens meridian and collateral flow to promote smoother Qi and blood, making movement more flexible and reducing numbness and soreness.

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