Ulcerative Colitis
|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹痛，腹泻，黏膜脓血便，里急后重，肛门灼热、口苦，小便短赤，舌质红，苔黄腻，脉滑数或濡数
Plain-Language Explanation:
- May experience abdominal pain.
- May experience diarrhea.
- Stools contain mucus and pus or blood.
- A sensation of tenesmus during bowel movements.
- Burning sensation in the anus and bitter taste in the mouth.
- Urination is short and yellowish.
- The tongue tends to be red.
- The tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
- The pulse tends to be slippery and rapid, or soft and rapid.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
清热化湿，调气行血
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps clear heat from the body and promote the elimination of dampness and turbidity, alleviating symptoms such as fever, thirst, heaviness of the body, or difficult urination.
- Helps regulate qi movement and promote blood circulation, relieving symptoms such as chest tightness, distension of the rib-side, abdominal bloating and pain, or ecchymosis pain.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
腹泻便溏，有黏液或少量脓血，食少纳差，食后腹胀、腹部隐痛喜按，肢倦乏力，面色萎黄，舌质淡或体胖有齿痕，苔薄白，脉细弱或濡缓
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Stools are loose and unformed, with mucus or a small amount of pus and blood visible during bowel movements.
- Poor appetite, lack of desire to eat, and food seems tasteless.
- Abdominal bloating after eating, dull abdominal pain relieved by pressure.
- Fatigue and weakness in the limbs, easily feeling tired overall.
- The complexion is sallow and dull, lacking vitality.
- The tongue is pale, or the tongue body is enlarged with tooth marks on the edges.
- The tongue coating is thin and white, lightly covering the tongue.
- The pulse is thin and weak, or soft and slow.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾益气，除湿升阳
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps strengthen the spleen and stomach and supplement vital qi, alleviating discomforts such as poor appetite, low energy, or easy fatigue.
- Helps eliminate dampness and turbidity from the body and boost yang qi, relieving symptoms such as heaviness, abdominal bloating with loose stools, or mental fatigue.
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|Common Symptoms
Clinical Description:
久泻不愈，大便清稀或伴有完谷不化，或黎明前泻，脐中腹痛，喜温喜按，腰膝酸软，形寒肢冷，食少神疲，面色白，舌质淡，舌体胖有齿痕，苔白润，脉沉细或尺脉弱
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Chronic diarrhea that does not improve, watery stools like clear water, sometimes with undigested food particles.
- Sometimes diarrhea occurs in the early morning or before dawn, with dull pain around the navel that is relieved by warmth and pressure.
- Soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees.
- Aversion to cold, with cold hands and feet.
- Poor appetite and low spirits.
- Pale complexion.
- The tongue is pale, enlarged, with tooth marks on the edges.
- The tongue coating is white and slightly moist.
- The pulse feels deep and thin, or the posterior pulse is relatively weak.
|TCM Approach
Clinical Description:
健脾补肾，温阳化湿
Plain-Language Explanation:
- Helps strengthen the spleen and stomach and nourish kidney qi, alleviating discomforts such as poor appetite, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, or low energy.
- Helps warm and supplement yang qi and resolve dampness and turbidity, relieving symptoms such as aversion to cold, cold limbs, heaviness, or difficult urination.
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