Stony Goiter

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

颈前结喉处肿块坚硬如石，高低不平，推之不移，颈部不适，全身症状可不明显。舌暗红或有瘀点，苔白腻，脉弦

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • A palpable mass in front of the neck at the Adam’s apple area, very hard in texture like a stone.
  • The surface is uneven, it is difficult to move when pressed, and it hardly shifts with hand movement.
  • There may be discomfort in the neck.
  • There are generally no obvious systemic symptoms.
  • The tongue is dark reddish with purple stasis spots visible on its surface.
  • The tongue coating is white and greasy.
  • The pulse feels tight like a stretched string.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

解郁化痰，活血消坚

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help relieve stagnation and resolve phlegm turbidity, alleviating discomfort such as chest tightness and rib-sides distension, depressed mood, or sticky difficult expectoration.
  • May help promote blood circulation and dissolve hard masses, alleviating symptoms such as pain, hardened lumps, or menstrual irregularities.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

颈前结喉肿块质硬，或颈部他处发现转移性结块，或肿瘤术后，声音嘶哑，形倦体瘦，口干咽燥。舌紫暗或见瘀斑，脉沉细或涩

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • A hard mass in front of the neck at the Adam’s apple area, or metastatic nodules in other parts of the neck, or related manifestations appearing after tumor surgery.
  • Hoarseness when speaking, voice is not clear.
  • Easy fatigue and emaciation, lack of physical strength and low spirit.
  • Dry mouth and throat, uncomfortable dry sensation in the throat.
  • The tongue is dark purple or shows ecchymosis patches.
  • The pulse is deep and thin, and feels choppy and unsmooth when pressed.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

和营养阴，活血通络

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help harmonize the nutritive qi and nourish yin fluids, alleviating discomfort such as irritability, dry mouth and tongue, or night sweats and insomnia.
  • May help promote blood circulation and dredge the channels, alleviating discomfort such as numbness, tingling, or bi pain.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

颈部单发肿物，质硬如石，表面不平，皮色如常，肿物随吞咽上下移动明显受限；伴胸闷气短，呼吸发憋；舌苔薄白，舌质有瘀斑，脉弦细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Only a single mass appears on the neck, very hard to touch like a stone, the surface is uneven but the skin color is generally normal.
  • The mass has limited up-and-down movement during swallowing and does not move with it well.
  • Chest tightness and shortness of breath, with labored and uncomfortable breathing.
  • The tongue coating is thin and white, with dark purple stasis spots visible on the tongue surface.
  • The pulse feels like a tightened string and is also thin.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏肝理气，化痰散结

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help soothe liver qi and regulate qi movement, alleviating discomfort such as distending fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, chest tightness and belching, or abdominal distension and pain.
  • May help transform phlegm turbidity and dissipate masses, alleviating symptoms such as difficult expectoration, throat obstruction, or internal lumps.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

颈部肿块，坚硬如石；情绪易于激动，心悸易惊，烦躁，多汗；舌红少苔，脉弦数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • A palpable neck mass, very hard in texture like a stone.
  • Emotionally easily agitated.
  • Palpitations, easily startled.
  • Irritability and restlessness, excessive sweating.
  • The tongue is reddish with scant coating, the pulse is tight and somewhat rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清肝解郁，散结化毒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help clear stagnant liver heat and relieve stagnation, alleviating discomfort such as rib-side distending pain, bitter taste in mouth, red eyes, or depressed mood.
  • May help dissipate internal masses and eliminate pathogenic accumulations, alleviating symptoms such as local swelling and hardness, red swollen sores, or sore throat.

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