Rheumatoid Arthritis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节肿痛，疼痛游走不定，舌质淡红，苔白腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joint swelling and pain.
- The pain location is unfixed and often moves around.
- The tongue color is pale red.
- The tongue coating is white and sticky.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
祛风除湿，通络止痛
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help dispel wind and drain dampness, and relieve discomforts such as head and body pain, heaviness of the body, or joint pain, swelling, and soreness.
- May help unblock the meridians and relieve pain, and reduce numbness, tingling, or difficulty bending and stretching the limbs.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节冷痛肿胀，恶寒喜暖，舌质淡暗，苔白腻或白滑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints feel cold, painful, and swollen, worsening with cold, with restricted and inflexible movement.
- Marked aversion to cold, prefers staying in warm environments or using heat to warm up.
- The tongue is pale and dark, with a general lack of blood color.
- The tongue coating is white and sticky, or white and slippery, and is thick and not easy to scrape off.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温经散寒，祛湿通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help warm the meridians and expel internal cold, and relieve discomfort such as chills with cold limbs, joint soreness that worsens with cold, or meridian tightness and cramping.
- May help drain dampness and unblock the meridians, and reduce manifestations such as body heaviness, numbness and swelling of the limbs, or impaired joint bending and stretching.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节红肿热痛，口渴不欲饮，舌质红，苔黄腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints become red, swollen, hot, and painful, and discomfort increases with activity.
- Feels thirsty but has little desire to drink, unwilling to drink much.
- The tongue is red, appearing rather bright red.
- The tongue coating is yellow and sticky, and is thick.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热除湿，宣痹通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear internal heat and drain dampness, and relieve discomforts such as fever, thirst, heaviness of the body, or difficult urination.
- May help disperse obstructions and unblock the meridians, and reduce manifestations such as joint soreness and swelling, limb numbness, or impaired joint movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节肿痛日久，伴皮下结节，舌紫暗，苔白厚或厚腻
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joint swelling and pain are prolonged.
- Small nodules can be felt under the skin.
- The tongue is purple and dark.
- The tongue coating is white and thick, or white, thick, and sticky.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血行瘀，化痰通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help promote blood circulation and disperse stasis, and reduce ecchymosis, pain, or menstrual irregularities.
- May help resolve phlegm and unblock the meridians, and reduce numbness, tingling, or difficulty moving the joints.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节肌肉酸痛乏力，肌肉萎缩，自汗，面少华，舌淡苔薄白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints and muscles are sore and weak.
- Muscles become thin and shrunken.
- Prone to spontaneous sweating.
- The complexion lacks luster.
- The tongue is pale with a thin white coating.
- The pulse is thready and weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养血，活络祛邪
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help supplement qi and blood, and relieve discomfort such as fatigue, shortness of breath, pale complexion, or dizziness and palpitations.
- May help unblock the meridians and eliminate pathogenic factors, and reduce limb numbness, joint pain and swelling, or impaired bending and stretching.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腰膝酸软无力，畏寒喜暖，关节肿大或僵硬畸形，舌红，苔白薄，脉沉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The lower back and knees are sore and weak, more noticeable after activity.
- Aversion to cold is quite pronounced, prefers warm environments.
- Joints are enlarged, stiff, and deformed, with restricted and inflexible movement.
- The tongue is red, appearing rather bright red.
- The tongue coating is white and thin, with a light coating.
- The pulse is deep and weak, lacking overall strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益肝肾，蠲痹通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help nourish the liver and kidneys, and relieve discomfort such as dizziness, tinnitus, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, or lack of physical strength.
- May help dispel obstructions and unblock the meridians, and reduce joint pain, limb numbness, or impaired joint movement.
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