Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
关节红肿热痛，舌质红，苔黄腻，脉滑或滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Joints become red, swollen, hot, and painful, feeling warm to the touch.
- When extending the tongue, it appears reddish, with a noticeably red color.
- The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy, making the tongue surface appear unclear.
- The pulse feels slippery, or slippery and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
祛风化湿清热通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Dispel Wind → Drives away external Wind pathogens, reducing migrating pain, soreness, and discomfort with aversion to wind.
- Transform Dampness → Eliminates excess dampness and turbidity, easing heaviness, stickiness, swelling, and joint heaviness.
- Clear Heat → Reduces internal stagnant heat, alleviating redness, burning sensations, bitter taste, thirst, and irritability.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Promotes smooth circulation in the meridians, enhancing qi and blood flow and improving numbness, stiffness, and restricted movement.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
高热，斑疹鲜红，面赤，烦躁，小便黄赤，大便秘结，舌质红，苔黄燥，脉滑数或洪数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Body temperature is very high, with marked high fever.
- Bright red skin rashes appear, looking vivid in color.
- The face is flushed and feels hot, with a reddish complexion.
- Feeling restless, irritable, and unable to calm down.
- Urine is yellow or even reddish, with noticeably deepened color during urination.
- Stools are dry, hard, and difficult to pass, with constipation.
- When extending the tongue, it appears reddish overall.
- The tongue coating is yellow and relatively dry, making the tongue surface appear dry.
- The pulse feels slippery and rapid, or full, flooding, and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热解毒凉血消斑
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear Heat → Reduces internal stagnant heat, easing redness, burning sensations, sore throat, and thirst.
- Resolve Toxin → Clears inflammatory “toxin” pathogens, alleviating sores, swelling, suppuration, and odor while promoting healing.
- Cool the Blood → Reduces heat in the blood level, relieving bleeding tendencies, irritability, thirst, and red tongue.
- Eradicate Rashes → Helps skin and mucosal red spots and rashes gradually subside, reducing redness, itching, and swelling.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胸闷，咳嗽气喘，咯痰黏稠，舌质暗红，苔黄腻，脉滑数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The chest feels tight and suffocating, with uncomfortable, difficult breathing.
- Coughing and easy panting, more obvious when speaking or moving.
- The sputum is thick and sticky, not easy to cough out.
- When extending the tongue, it appears darkish red.
- The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy.
- The pulse feels slippery and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
宣肺化痰祛瘀平喘
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Ventilate the Lung → Opens and smooths lung qi, relieving chest tightness, cough, nasal congestion, and impaired breathing.
- Transform Phlegm → Resolves thick mucus and facilitates its expulsion, reducing excessive phlegm, difficulty expectorating, and sticky sensation.
- Dispel Stasis → Resolves blood stasis and improves qi and blood flow, relieving stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
- Calm Wheezing → Alleviates wheezing and asthma, reducing shortness of breath and chest tightness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
低热起伏，渴不欲饮，口苦口干，唇甲紫绀，困乏纳差，小便混浊，大便秘结，舌质暗红，苔黄腻或白腻，脉涩或弦数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Body temperature remains slightly elevated and fluctuates; not very high but recurring.
- Feeling thirsty but not wanting to drink water, often just a couple of sips before stopping.
- The mouth feels bitter and dry, worse when speaking or swallowing.
- Lips and nails become purplish or bluish, looking dark in color.
- Fatigue and lack of strength, poor appetite, no desire to eat.
- Urine appears turbid and unclear, as if mixed with cloudiness.
- Stools are dry, hard, and difficult to pass, with constipation.
- When extending the tongue, it appears darkish red and not vivid.
- The tongue coating is yellow, thick, and greasy, or white but also thick and greasy.
- The pulse feels choppy and slightly rough, or like a tight string and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热活血化瘀通络
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Clear Heat → Reduces internal stagnant heat, easing redness, burning sensations, thirst, sore throat, and irritability.
- Activate Blood → Promotes local blood circulation, relieving pain, stiffness, and numbness.
- Dissolve Stasis → Resolves retained blood stasis, improving stabbing pain, fixed pain, and swelling.
- Unblock the Collaterals → Promotes meridian circulation, making qi and blood flow smoother, improving joint mobility and reducing numbness and soreness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
胸闷气短，心悸怔忡，面晦唇紫，喘促不宁，下肢凹限性水肿，舌质暗红，苔灰腻，脉细数或细涩结代
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The chest feels tight, breathing becomes shallow and short, not quite smooth.
- Sudden pounding sensation in the heart area, easily startled and uneasy.
- The complexion is dark and lusterless, lips are purple or bluish.
- Breathing is rapid and uneven, feeling restless and unable to settle down.
- The lower legs and ankles swell, and pressing leaves a pit that does not rebound quickly.
- When extending the tongue, it appears darkish red.
- The tongue coating is gray, thick, and greasy, looking unclear.
- The pulse is thin and somewhat rapid, or thin and choppy with slight roughness and intermittent pauses.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
利水宁心益气行血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Promote Urination → Promotes the excretion of excess water (via urine, sweating, etc.), reducing edema, difficult urination, and heaviness.
- Calm the Heart → Settles the mind, relieving palpitations, irritability, insomnia, and restlessness.
- Boost Qi → Enhances physical strength and organ function, improving shortness of breath, fatigue, reluctance to speak, and tiredness.
- Move Blood → Promotes smooth blood circulation, reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, numbness, and swelling caused by stasis.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
持续低热，盗汗，面颧潮红，口干咽燥，眼睛干涩或视物模糊，舌质红，苔少，脉细或细数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Body temperature remains slightly elevated, feeling uncomfortable heat for a long time.
- Sweating after falling asleep at night, which gradually stops upon waking or when waking up.
- Flushing appears on both cheeks; the cheeks feel hot and look red noticeably.
- The mouth is dry, and the throat feels dry, uncomfortable when speaking or swallowing.
- The eyes feel dry or vision becomes somewhat blurry.
- When extending the tongue, it appears reddish overall.
- The tongue coating is scanty, very thin, or even hardly noticeable.
- The pulse is thin, or thin and somewhat rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
滋阴清热解毒祛瘀
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Nourish Yin → Replenishes yin fluids and blood, relieving dry mouth, dry throat, tidal heat, and night sweating.
- Clear Heat → Reduces internal heat signs, easing redness, swelling, fever, sore throat, thirst, and irritability.
- Resolve Toxin → Clears inflammatory “toxin” pathogens, helping sores, swelling, suppuration, and red spots gradually improve.
- Dispel Stasis → Resolves blood stasis and unblocks obstructed areas, reducing stabbing pain, fixed pain, swelling, and numbness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
神疲乏力，自汗，头晕眼花，舌质淡红，苔薄白，脉细弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Feeling mentally tired and easily fatigued.
- Sweating spontaneously, whether active or resting.
- Dizziness and blurry vision, seeing things unsteadily.
- When extending the tongue, it appears pale with a reddish tint, looking lighter in color.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, not thick.
- The pulse is thin and weak, lacking strength.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
益气养血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Boost Qi → Enhances physical strength and organ function, making qi more sufficient, and alleviating shortness of breath, fatigue, reluctance to speak, and tiredness.
- Nourish Blood → Enriches the blood, making qi and blood more abundant, improving poor complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and limb numbness.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
肢体浮肿，畏寒肢冷，腹满，纳呆，腰酸，尿少，舌质淡红、边有齿痕或舌体嫩胖，苔薄白，脉沉细
Plain-Language Explanation:
- The body may show edema, with limbs looking somewhat swollen.
- Aversion to cold, with hands and feet often feeling cold.
- The abdomen feels distended and full, uncomfortable as if pressing up.
- Poor appetite, no desire to eat.
- The lower back feels sore and distended, uncomfortable.
- Urine output is scanty.
- When extending the tongue, it appears pale with a reddish tint, with teeth marks on the edges, or the tongue body looks tender and slightly enlarged.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, not thick or greasy.
- The pulse is felt only by pressing deeper, and it is thin.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
温肾健脾化气行水
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Warm the Kidney → Warms and supports kidney yang, improving aversion to cold, cold limbs, sore and cold lower back and knees, and frequent nighttime urination.
- Strengthen the Spleen → Boosts spleen and stomach function, improving digestion and the ability to transform dampness, relieving poor appetite, abdominal distension, loose stools, and heaviness.
- Transform Qi → Promotes qi movement and “qi transformation,” regulating water metabolism, reducing distension and difficult urination.
- Move Water → Promotes water metabolism and excretion, inducing diuresis and reducing edema, relieving swelling and damp heaviness.
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