Scleroderma
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
皮肤肿胀发硬，肢端苍白，形寒怕冷，舌淡红，苔薄白，脉沉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin may become swollen and hardened, feeling less elastic and not very soft to the touch.
- The extremities may appear pale, with a color lighter than usual.
- The body may feel cold and sensitive to cold, with discomfort worsening in cold environments.
- The tongue may appear pale with a reddish tint, lacking a vibrant red color.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, without being thick or greasy.
- The pulse may feel deeper, thready, and weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
解肌散寒宣肺通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Release the muscle layer → Relax tension in the muscles and superficial meridians, relieve externally contracted heat and aversion to cold, and ease muscle soreness, making movement more comfortable.
- Dispel cold → Drive out cold from the body and local areas, alleviating cold pain and discomfort that worsens with cold exposure.
- Diffuse the Lung → Help Lung qi open and flow smoothly, relieving nasal congestion, cough, chest tightness, and shortness of breath.
- Unblock the collaterals → Promote meridian circulation for smoother flow of qi and blood, reducing numbness, pain, and stiffness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
皮肤紧张而肿，肤色红，触之热，发热，舌质红，苔黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin may feel tight and swollen, with a tense sensation to the touch.
- The skin may appear red, with a noticeably flushed look.
- The area may feel warm or hot to the touch, with increased local temperature.
- The body may experience fever and an elevated temperature, causing general discomfort.
- The tongue may appear red, with a relatively deep red color.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy, and the tongue surface looks unclean.
- The pulse may feel slippery and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热除湿蠲痹通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear heat → Reduce accumulated internal heat, alleviating redness, swelling, burning sensations, bitter taste, thirst, and sore throat.
- Eliminate dampness → Resolve dampness turbidity in the body, relieving heaviness, stickiness, swelling, exudation, and joint heaviness.
- Relieve impediment → “Relieve” means to remove, and “impediment” refers to blocked meridians causing pain; it means clearing obstruction to ease joint soreness, stiffness, and symptoms worsened by dampness or cold.
- Unblock the collaterals → Promote smooth meridian circulation for freer flow of qi and blood, improving numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
皮肤硬化刺痛，指端青紫，皮损色暗，急躁易怒，舌质紫暗或瘀斑，苔薄白，脉弦涩
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin may become hardened, accompanied by a prickling, needle-like pain.
- The fingertips may turn bluish-purple, appearing darker than usual.
- Affected skin areas may look dull and lack a healthy, bright appearance.
- There may be a tendency toward irritability, anger, and inner restlessness.
- The tongue may be dark purplish, or show visible stasis spots on its surface.
- The tongue coating is thin and white.
- The pulse may feel wiry, tense, and rough, without a smooth flow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀软坚通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Invigorate blood → Promote blood circulation to reduce pain, stiffness, and numbness.
- Resolve stasis → Disperse retained blood stasis, alleviating stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
- Soften hardness → Soften hard masses and lumps, gradually reducing nodular and board-like stiffness.
- Unblock the collaterals → Promote smooth meridian circulation for freer flow of qi and blood, improving numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
皮肤干燥，萎缩而薄，面色无华，神疲乏力，舌质淡，苔薄，脉细弱无力
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin may feel dry and lack moistness to the touch.
- The skin may show thinning and atrophy, feeling thinner and more fragile.
- The complexion may look dull and lack luster, appearing somewhat dark.
- There may be mental fatigue and physical weakness, with a tendency to feel easily exhausted when doing tasks.
- The tongue may appear pale and light, looking somewhat blanched.
- The tongue coating is thin, without being thick or greasy.
- The pulse may feel thready and weak, lacking strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养血温经通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Boost qi → Enhance physical strength and function, strengthen qi dynamic, helping relieve shortness of breath, fatigue, and reluctance to speak.
- Nourish blood → Enrich the blood, making qi and blood more abundant, improving poor complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and limb numbness.
- Warm the meridians → Warm the channels and dispel cold congealing, reducing cold pain, stiffness, and aggravation from cold.
- Unblock the collaterals → Promote smooth meridian circulation for freer flow of qi and blood, improving numbness, pulling pain, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
皮肤板硬、干枯、萎缩，毛发脱落，胸闷气短，咳嗽，倦怠乏力，舌胖淡嫩，苔薄白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin may become board-like and dry, with atrophy, feeling insufficiently soft to the touch.
- Hair may gradually fall out, with increased hair loss during washing or combing.
- There may be chest tightness, and breathing can become shallow and short, with easy onset of shortness of breath.
- Cough may occur, becoming more noticeable when talking or during activity.
- There may be fatigue and lack of strength, with a general feeling of being unable to get going.
- The tongue body may appear slightly enlarged, pale, and tender.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, without being thick or greasy.
- The pulse may feel thready and weak, without sufficient strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补肺扶脾培土生金活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Tonify the Lung → Strengthen the Lung’s diffusing, descending, and defensive functions, relieving shortness of breath, cough, low voice, weak qi, and susceptibility to illness.
- Support the Spleen → Enhance the Spleen and Stomach’s transportation and transformation, improving poor appetite, bloating, loose stools, fatigue, and heaviness.
- Strengthen Earth to generate Metal → Fortify the “Earth” (Spleen-Stomach) to nourish the “Metal” (Lung), so that qi dynamic and body fluids are more adequately generated, cough and phlegm are reduced, breathing is smoother, and physical strength and resistance are improved.
- Invigorate blood → Promote blood circulation to reduce pain, stiffness, and swelling from stasis.
- Unblock the collaterals → Promote smooth meridian circulation for freer flow of qi and blood, improving numbness, pulling sensations, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
皮肤硬化、变薄，面具脸，畏寒肢冷，腰膝酸软，舌淡胖有齿痕，苔白，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The skin may become hardened and gradually thinner, feeling insufficiently soft to the touch.
- The facial skin may feel tight and stiff, with an unnatural, mask-like expression.
- There may be sensitivity to cold and a sensation of overall coldness, with frequently cold hands and feet.
- The lower back and knees may feel sore, weak, and lacking strength when walking or exerting effort.
- The tongue may appear pale and slightly swollen, with tooth marks visible along the edges.
- The tongue coating is white, and the tongue surface looks whitish.
- The pulse may feel deep and thready, requiring deeper pressure to be clearly felt.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
补益脾肾温阳散寒
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Tonify the Spleen and Kidney → Strengthen the Spleen-Stomach and nourish Kidney qi and essence, improving poor appetite, bloating, loose stools, fatigue, and excessive water-dampness.
- Warm yang → Warm and support yang qi, boost the body’s “drive and warmth,” reducing sensitivity to cold, cold extremities, soreness and cold in the lower back and knees, and mental fatigue.
- Dispel cold → Drive out cold from the body or local areas, relieving cold pain and discomfort that “worsens with cold and improves with warmth.”
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