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1. Wind-Cold
Clinical manifestations: Chills greater than fever, no sweating, clear watery nasal discharge, stiff neck and upper back, headache and body aches, no thirst, normal appetite.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale body with thin white moist coating. Pulse: Floating and tight.
Treatment principle: Warm the channels, release the exterior, drive out Cold through gentle diaphoresis.
Note: no moxa. This site has no organ-nonspecific Wind-Cold Bi-syndrome slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
2. Exterior Cold With Interior Dampness in Summer
Clinical manifestations: Chills with mild fever, headache with a heavy sensation, nausea and vomiting, watery diarrhea or loose stools, heavy feeling in the body and limbs, fullness and stuffiness in the chest, bloating after eating.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale body, puffy with teeth marks, thick white greasy coating. Pulse: Floating and soggy, soft at the right Guan position.
Treatment principle: Release exterior Cold and transform interior Dampness, stop nausea and diarrhea.
Note: no moxa. This is a combined exterior-Cold/interior-Damp presentation with no matching slide on any deck of this site — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Bloating and fullness in the upper abdomen worse after eating, heavy feeling as if weighed down by wet clothes, loose sticky stools difficult to wipe clean, thick white greasy tongue coating, dull cold abdominal pain eased by warmth.
Tongue: Pale and swollen with teeth marks, excessively moist thick white greasy fur. Pulse: Soggy, slippery, slow, soft and weak at the right Guan.
Treatment principle: Warm the Spleen, strengthen its transforming power, dry Dampness.
Note: moxa applicable on REN-12. Direct match with this site's own Cold-Dampness-invading-the-Spleen slide.
4. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue and weakness, dry mouth and throat with little desire to drink, insomnia or restless sleep, night sweats, warm sensation in the palms and soles.
Tongue: Red or pale-red body with thin or absent coating, possibly dry and cracked. Pulse: Thin and weak, possibly rapid.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi and generate Yin fluids.
Note: no moxa. This site has no combined Qi-and-Yin-deficiency slide, the same gap confirmed on Cushing's Syndrome this same batch — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Sore throat, fever greater than chills, thirst with desire to drink, cough with thick yellow phlegm.
Tongue: Red tip and edges with thin yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Disperse Wind-Heat, relieve sore throat, clear Heat from the exterior.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide on the exterior-invasion level, the established convention.