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Clinical manifestations: Manic, reckless behavior with violent outbursts, incessant talking or shouting, flushed red face and red eyes, chest oppression with thick yellow sticky phlegm, bitter taste in the mouth and thirst.
Tongue: Red body, swollen with a red prickly tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, full and overflowing at the left Cun (Heart) position.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and transform Phlegm, clear Liver and Gallbladder Heat.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Heart slide.
Clinical manifestations: Staring blankly at walls, muttering or talking to oneself, emotional flatness, depression, withdrawal, rattling or gurgling throat sounds, chest stuffiness and nausea, poor appetite and bloating.
Tongue: Pale swollen body with thick white greasy coating, often stiff or sluggish. Pulse: Slippery, especially in the middle position.
Treatment principle: Scours Phlegm and opens the orifices, clears Heat and transforms Phlegm, regulates Qi and resolves turbidity.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Phlegm-misting-the-Mind slide — same concept, Heart/Mind naming variant.
Clinical manifestations: Explosive anger or sudden outbursts, bitter taste in the mouth, throbbing headache at the temples, distending pain in the ribcage, red face and eyes.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid.
Treatment principle: Soothes Liver-Qi stagnation, clears rising Heat disturbing the Mind, calms emotional agitation.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Stagnant-Liver-Qi-turning-into-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, irrational behavior or delusions, stabbing chest pain in a fixed location, purple or dark lips and nails, palpitations with anxiety, insomnia with disturbing dreams.
Tongue: Dark purple body with stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or knotted, especially at the left Cun position.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, moves Qi and alleviates pain, opens the chest and disperses stagnation.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Heart-Blood-stasis slide — same concept, close naming variant (Stagnation/stasis).
Clinical manifestations: Extreme fatigue and lack of energy, pale sallow complexion with pale lips, poor appetite and bloating, timidity, social withdrawal, muttering, palpitations and insomnia with excessive dreaming.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender with teeth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, especially empty at the left Cun (Heart) and soft at the right Guan (Spleen).
Treatment principle: Tonifies Qi, nourishes Blood, strengthens the Spleen.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36/BL-20. Linked to this site's own Spleen-and-Heart-Blood-deficiency slide, the closest match, with the source's mixed Qi-and-Blood framing flagged against that slide's pure-Blood framing.