Xue Yu, Blood Stasis 血淤  (in English and Chinese 中英文)

By: Joe Hing Kwok Chu 按此看中文 Xue yu (blood stasis) is a term used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Xue yu may indicate micro clots in the circulatory system.

Clinical symptoms may include:

• Amnesia.

• Anxiety, or uneasiness, fit of temper

• Bleeding: Coughing out blood, vomiting blood, blood in urine, blood in stool, heavy bleeding during menopause, nose bleeding, gum bleeding, general bleeding in some part of the body.

• Capillaries on nose and face showing

• Chronic chest pain

• Dementia.

• Depression

• Extremes of the body: fingers, toes, and lips show purple in color

• Fever (mild) gradually appears at dusk

• Fullness: Persistently feeling fullness in the head, eyes, body and limbs.

• Hiccups endlessly

• Insomnia

• Lips are dark or dark eyes

• Numbness in limbs and/or body.

• Palpitation

• Pain and aches, the pain feels as if pricking with needles and with fixed location

• Pulse reading: Traditional Chinese pulse reading is hong (a most important item), uneven pulse or tight, tense pulse.

• Purpura

• Skin is rough and scaly.

• Tongue shows dark red, or dark blue or green color with bruise mark

• Tumors or swollen body parts

• Veins under the tongue puffy and twisted

Laboratory tests:

May show:

• High in platelet counts.

• Low in platelet counts.

• Blood cell coagulation.

• High or very low in prothrombin Time test.

• High or very low in INR test

• Oversized red cells.

• Sickle shape red cells.

• High in homocysteine in blood.

• High in cholesterol.

• High in triglycerides.

• High in ESR

Note: not all symptoms or test results are present.

Warning: Unless you are well trained and have experience do not attempt to solve this condition by trial and error. Serious injuries can result from incorrect usage.

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Back to Terms of Traditional Chinese Medicine 血淤証

血淤証可能在循環系統內有微小血凝塊存在。
臨床表現包括：

• 健忘，

• 焦慮不安。

• 脾氣不好。

• 出血: 咳血，吐血，血尿，便血，月經出血多，更年期大量出血，鼻出血， 牙齦出血，身體一般出血。

• 鼻與臉部之微血管顯明。

• 長期胸口疼痛。

• 癡呆。

• 憂鬱。

• 手指，足趾，口唇發紫。

• 微微發熱並於漸漸近黃昏時熱度漸漸增高。

• 頭，眼，身體，四肢常有脹滿感覺。

• 不停打嗝。

• 失眠。

• 口唇，眼睛發黑。

• 四肢與身體麻木。

• 心悸。

• 疼痛，於固定位置像針刺感覺。

• 脈象 結代或弦。

• 紫癜。

• 皮膚粗糙或有鱗片。

• 舌頭顯示暗紅色或暗藍色或綠色的瘀痕。

• 腫瘤或身體有些部位腫脹。

• 舌頭下面靜脈浮腫和扭曲張。

實驗室檢查，可能包括以下現象：

• 血小板高。

• 血小板指数低 。

• 血細胞凝固。

• 凝血酵素原時間高或非常低。

• 國際標准化比值高或非常低。

• 超大紅細胞。

• 鐮狀紅細胞。

• 同型半胱氨酸高。

• 高膽固醇。

• 高甘油三酯。

• 血沉降率高

Last update: Sept 21, 2013; 5 p.m. LAH