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Abdominal distension refers to the sensation of fullness in the abdomen.
Aging is a sign of degeneration in an organism's structure, metabolism, and physiological function.
Allergic rhinitis is the inflammation of the nasal mucous membrane.
Anemia is an erythrocyte or bone marrow disease. If you or a loved one is suffering from Anemia, consult the following health information and be on your way to treatment.
Anorexia is a syndrome manifested in body weight loss (below normal standard) due to initial fear of weight gain or excessive fear of obesity, resulting in inability to maintain the most basic normal body weight and causing dysfunction of the body in movement, amenorrhea, etc.
Anxiety neurosis is a disease manifested as emotional disturbances such as intense apprehension, uncertainty, and fear, and is often accompanied by vegetative nerve dysfunction.
According to TCM, this condition belongs to Bi syndromes and Gu Bi syndromes.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by joint synovitis.
Bronchial asthma is a common paroxysmal and allergic pulmonary disease.
Breast cancer is among the most frequently encountered malignant cancers in clinical practice, and its occurrence rate is growing.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is characterized by finger numbness, stabbing pain, weak wrist holding power, etc.
Chronic bronchitis involves a chronic inflammation in the walls of trachea and bronchi.
In traditional Chinese medicine, this disease is categorized as yu zheng (depression syndrome), pi wei nei shsng (internal injury of the spleen-stomach), xu lao (consumptive disorder), and tong zheng (pain syndrome), etc.
Colds and flu in Chinese Traditional Medicine are exterior syndromes manifested in fever, sensitivity or aversion to cold, headaches, aches and pain or tenderness in the extremities, nasal congestion, sore throat, sneezing, and coughing.
Congestive heart failure is a condition that occurs at the late stages of heart disease, when myocardial contraction is significantly weakened, and the cardiac output so severely diminished as not to meet the blood demand by the body's tissue cell metabolism.
Although it's not a disease, constipation is a common clinical symptom, and it seriously affects the quality of life.
Coronary arteriosclerosis is a form of myocardial ischemia, characterized by the thickening and loss of elasticity in the coronary artery walls.
Chronic cough is clinically manifested in cough with phlegm for more than 2 consecutive years, and lasting longer than 3 months in each year.
Depression is a psychotic or neurotic condition characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, and feelings of extreme sadness, dejection, and hopelessness.
Diabetes in Chinese medicine is called Xiao Ke Syndromes.
Eczema is one of the most commonly seen dermatoses, especially among children.
In healthy people, the normal regulatory functions of the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the kidney help maintain a functional water metabolic balance, which prevents the occurrence of edema even in the case of excessive water intake.
Endometriosis is a condition in which tissue more or less perfectly resembling the uterine mucous membrane (the endometrium) and containing typical endometrial granular and stromal elements occurs aberrantly in various locations in the pelvic cavity.
Epilepsy is a temporary paroxysmal disorder of brain functions.
Characteristically marked by chronic and extensive muscular and skeletal pain and stiffness, and often accompanied with fatigue, anxiety, sleep disorders, headache, bowel irritation, and arthrocele and articular numbness, fibromyalgia is a non-articular rheumatic syndrome and has distinct pressure pain points.
Gout, also known as migratory arthritis, results from a long term disorder in purine metabolism.
Herpes simplex is caused by an infection of the herpes simplex virus (HSV) I or II.
In the past few decades, large amounts of research have been conducted on the treatment of hyperlipidemia with Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Hypertension is regarded as an independent disease resulting from unknown causes.
Thyroid enlargement is one of the important signs of hyperthyroidism, which falls into the category of "goiter" in traditional Chinese medicine.
Hypothyroidism, is most commonly seen in adults, particularly in women, it is characterized by a reduced basal metabolic rate, fatigue, lethargy, aversion to cold, and menstrual disorders.
Impotence is the most common male sexual dysfunction reported.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gastrointestinal dysfunction.
Hepatitis A is a common contagious disease induced by hepatitis virus A (HAV).
Lupus erythematosus is a chronic inflammatory disease triggered by immunoregulatory disorders wherein genetic, hormonal and environmental factors all play a role.
Menopausal Syndrome is one of the commonly-encountered women's conditions.
Traditional Chinese medicine holds that migraine is caused by blockage of channels and collaterals, imbalance between yin and yang, and disorder of qi and blood in the head due to exopathic wind, cold, dampness, and heat or internal injury.
Mononucleosis is an acute infectious disease caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
Obesity refers to the body condition in which excessive calorie intake causes an accumulation of too much fat in the body, with a person's actual weight exceeding the standard bodyweight by more than 20% and the fat percentage exceeding 30%.
Osteoporosis is a general osteopathy manifested in the following conditions: a decrease in total quantity of bone or in bone tissue per unit volume, insufficiency in generating the organic components of bone, and a secondary decrease in calcium deposit.
Otitis media is a common inflammation of the middle ear.
Pelvic inflammation is a clinical syndrome caused by inflammation of the female reproductive organs above the cervix (including the uterine body, ovarian tubes, and ovaries) and its neighboring connective tissues.
Periodontitis is the most common chronic inflammation of the periodontal tissue.
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a set of mental and bodily symptoms that appears before menstruation, and subsides as menstruation begins.
Prostatic hyperplasia is caused by abnormal or excessive growth of the prostate gland.
Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory dermatosis, characterized by red macular eruption spots or plaques with silvery scraps.
Raynaud's disease, also called Raynaud's gangrene, is a primary or idiopathic vascular disorder characterized by intermittent symmetrical ischemic attacks affecting the fingers or toes, and sometimes the ears or nose.
Stress generally refers to a group of symptoms caused by extended periods of mental and physical exertion and strain.
Cerebral apoplexy is manifested through the following symptoms: sudden coma, loss of consciousness, semi paralysis, hemianesthesia, speech difficulty or aphasia, or hemiplegia and crooked mouth and tongue in the absence coma.
Chronic ulcerative colitis is a disease in the intestinal tract with an unknown cause.
Urinary tract infections refer to infection at any location along the urinary tract as a result of a pathogen invasion.
When body resistance is lowered or external genitalia hygiene is neglected, various types of vaginitis are brought on by pathogenic microbes that easily can invade from outside the body through the vagina.