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Clinical manifestations: Five-palm heat, malar flush, deep heat felt in the bones, night sweats, dry throat at night, lower back soreness, tinnitus, scanty dark urine.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry with little or no coating, cracks may appear. Pulse: Fine (thready) and rapid, floating and empty, weak at the rear positions.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin, clears deficiency Heat, anchors rising Yang.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency-Empty-Heat-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: Low-grade sticky afternoon warmth, sticky or incomplete stools, bitter sticky taste, foggy heavy head, bloating, upper abdominal fullness, thirst with little desire to drink.
Tongue: Red body, possibly swollen with teeth marks, thick yellow greasy coating at the centre and root. Pulse: Soggy and rapid, often slippery.
Treatment principle: Clears Damp-Heat, promotes Qi movement, transforms Dampness.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide, its general Stomach-and-Spleen Damp-Heat match.
Clinical manifestations: Strong afternoon heat peaking around 3-5pm, constipation with dry hard stools, intense thirst for cold drinks, abdominal distension or pain worse with pressure, profuse sweating on palms and soles, bad breath, dark scanty urine.
Tongue: Red body with prickly thorns, thick yellow dry coating, possibly cracked. Pulse: Deep, forceful, rapid, slippery.
Treatment principle: Vigorously purges Heat, promotes bowel movement, moves Qi and relieves distension.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Stomach-Heat-(or-Phlegm-Heat) slide — this site's standard match for the Yangming/Bright-Yang excess-Heat family.
Clinical manifestations: Palpitations worsening at rest or night, insomnia with vivid dreams, mental restlessness, dry mouth and throat, malar flushing.
Tongue: Red body, especially red tip, little or no coating, possibly a midline crack. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak at the deep level, especially at the left Cun position.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin, nourishes Blood, tonifies Heart-Qi, calms the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Heart-Yin-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Heat worsening at night, fixed stabbing pain in a specific area, dark or clotted menstrual blood, irritability, restlessness, thirst with desire to rinse the mouth but not swallow.
Tongue: Reddish-purple with purple stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin dry yellow coating. Pulse: Choppy and rapid, often wiry at the left Guan position.
Treatment principle: Breaks Blood stasis, clears Heat, purges from the Lower Burner, unblocks the bowels.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide per this session's discoloration-marker rule; the Heat component isn't separately named on that slide.