Splenomegaly
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁肋胀痛或刺痛，胁下痞块，烦躁易怒，口苦口臭，舌质暗红或绛红有瘀斑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distending pain in both rib sides, or a prickling pain like needle stabs, worsening with movement or pressure.
- A hard mass can be felt under the ribs, more painful on pressure, with a persistent sensation of blockage and discomfort.
- Irritability with a tendency to anger, significant mood swings, easily upset over minor matters.
- Bitter taste in the mouth with noticeable halitosis, unpleasant odor when speaking or exhaling.
- The tongue appears dark red or deeper crimson, with visible purple or dark stasis spots or patches on the surface.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒，化瘀散结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help clear heat and eliminate pathological accumulations, relieving discomfort such as fever with restlessness, sore swollen throat, or red swollen sores.
- May help resolve stasis and dissipate masses, reducing fixed stabbing pain, bruising, or localized hard swelling and distension.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁下痞块，面色晦暗或见赤缕红斑，舌质暗红或绛红有瘀斑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A hard mass-like nodule can be felt under the ribs, causing an oppressive sensation and increased discomfort when pressed.
- The complexion is dull and lusterless, sometimes with fine thread-like red markings visible.
- The tongue is dark red or deep crimson, with visible purple or dark stasis patches on the surface.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
活血化瘀，软坚散结
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, relieving discomfort such as fixed stabbing pain, bruising, or irregular menstruation.
- May help soften hardness and dissipate masses, reducing symptoms like abdominal masses, local hard swellings and distension, or tenderness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁肋胀痛，胁下痞块，性情抑郁，大便不调，脉弦
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Distension and pain in both rib sides, worse with movement or pressure, the distending pain fluctuating in intensity but persisting.
- A hard mass-like nodule can be felt under the ribs with an oppressive sensation; pressure worsens the pain and causes aversion to touch.
- Low mood and melancholy, often feeling weighed down by worries, tending to internalize concerns.
- Irregular bowel movements, alternating between dry and loose stools, often with a sense of incomplete evacuation.
- The pulse feels tight and straight like a stretched string, tense and lacking softness under the fingers.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
疏肝健脾，化瘀通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help soothe liver qi and strengthen the spleen and stomach, relieving discomfort such as chest and rib distension, emotional depression, poor appetite, abdominal bloating, and loose stools.
- May help resolve stasis and unblock channels, reducing fixed stabbing pain, numbness in the limbs, or difficulty bending and stretching the joints.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
停食停乳，积聚痞块，面色萎黄，不思饮食
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Feeding ceases, manifesting as refusal to eat or unwillingness to take milk.
- A mass may form, feeling like a hard lump that causes an oppressive discomfort.
- The complexion is yellowish and lusterless, appearing sallow and unhealthy.
- Poor appetite with reduced food intake, lacking interest even when seeing food.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
消食导滞，活血通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help promote digestion and relieve food stagnation, reducing discomfort such as upper abdominal bloating, belching with acid reflux, or difficult bowel movements.
- May help promote blood circulation and unblock channels, relieving stabbing or sore distension, numbness in the limbs, or limited joint mobility.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁下痞块，面色晦暗，腰膝酸软，五心烦热或低热，舌红苔少
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A hard mass-like nodule can be felt under the ribs with an oppressive sensation, more uncomfortable on pressure, often feeling blocked and stagnant in that area.
- The complexion is dark and lusterless, appearing dull and unclear, with an overall poor complexion that looks spiritless.
- Soreness, distension and weakness in the lower back and knees, feeling lack of strength when walking or sitting for long periods, more pronounced after increased activity.
- Heat and restlessness in the palms, soles and chest, or a slightly elevated low-grade fever, with episodic internal heat and unease.
- The tongue is reddish with very little coating, appearing red and relatively dry when extended.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋补肝肾，活血化瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help nourish the liver and kidneys, enriching essence and blood, and relieve discomfort such as dizziness, blurred vision, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, or mental fatigue.
- May help promote blood circulation and resolve stasis, reducing fixed stabbing pain, bruising, or local masses.
- May help promote the smooth flow of qi and blood, relieving discomfort such as joint soreness, numbness in the limbs, or restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胁下痞块，畏寒肢冷，腹胀便溏，脉沉细或迟
Plain-Language Explanation:
- A mass can be felt under the ribs, causing an oppressive sensation and increased discomfort when pressed.
- Aversion to cold, with hands and feet easily becoming cold and slow to warm up, more noticeable in cool conditions.
- Abdominal distension and stuffiness, with loose and unformed stools and a sensation of incomplete evacuation.
- The pulse is only clearly felt with deeper pressure; it feels very thin or slightly slow and calm.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温肾健脾，利湿化瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May help warm and tonify kidney qi, strengthening the body’s yang energy, and relieve discomfort such as aversion to cold, cold limbs, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, or mental fatigue.
- May help strengthen the spleen and stomach, making food easier to digest and absorb, and reduce symptoms such as poor appetite, abdominal bloating with loose stools, or body tiredness and fatigue.
- May help eliminate dampness and turbidity from the body and promote urination, relieving discomfort such as difficult urination, edema, or a heavy sluggish body sensation.
- May help resolve stasis and promote blood circulation, reducing fixed stabbing pain, bruising, or difficulty moving the joints.
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