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Clinical manifestations: Strong chills worse than fever, no sweating, clear runny nose and sneezing, stiff neck and upper back, thin white phlegm, preference for warm drinks.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale with thin white moist coat. Pulse: Floating and tight.
Treatment principle: Opens the pores and strongly disperses Cold from the Exterior.
Note: no moxa (unless a Cold-dominant early stage). Matched to this site's own exterior-invasion convention, Invasion-of-Wind-Cold on the Lung deck.
Clinical manifestations: Spontaneous sweating worsened by light activity, frequent colds, bright pale complexion, fatigue and low stamina, feeling chilly without fever.
Tongue: Pale, puffy with possible tooth marks, thin white coat. Pulse: Floating and forceless, described as \"like a feather on water.\"
Treatment principle: Tonifies Qi, secures the Exterior, stops sweating.
Note: moxa applicable. Wei-Qi is functionally rooted in Lung-Qi on this site's decks, so linked to the Lung-Qi-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Fever greater than chills, sore red throat, thirst with desire to drink, headache with a distending quality, yellow nasal discharge.
Tongue: Red at tip and edges with thin yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Disperses Wind-Heat, clears Heat, resolves toxicity.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own exterior-invasion convention, Invasion-of-Wind-Heat on the Lung deck.
4. Wind-Damp
Clinical manifestations: Wandering joint pain, heaviness and soreness in the limbs, symptoms worsen in damp weather, head feels heavy as if wrapped, stiffness worse in the morning.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale with white greasy coating, possibly swollen. Pulse: Floating, soggy, and slow.
Treatment principle: Dispels Wind-Damp from the Exterior and channels, alleviates pain.
Note: this site's decks have no dedicated Wind-Damp Bi-syndrome (channel/joint invasion) slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Spontaneous sweating worsened by light activity, alternating chills and mild heat, cold sweating, frequent catching colds, fatigue, slight thirst without much desire to drink.
Tongue: Pale-red or slightly pale with thin white moist coating. Pulse: Floating and moderate, sometimes floating and weak.
Treatment principle: Harmonizes Nutritive and Defensive Qi, stops sweating, dispels external Wind.
Note: no moxa. Second, related match to the same Lung-Qi-deficiency slide as pattern 2 above (within this page's two-pattern reuse cap) — this site has no separate Camp-and-Defense (Ying-Wei) disharmony slide, so the alternating-chills-and-heat nuance isn't fully captured.
6. Empty-Wind Agitating in the Interior
Clinical manifestations: Trembling or twitching hands and feet, night sweats with malar flush, dry mouth and throat, severe fatigue and listlessness, dizziness and dry eyes.
Tongue: Deep red or crimson, thin, dry, cracked, mirror-like with little coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, possibly wiry, lacks force on deep palpation.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin, extinguishes internal Wind, subdues floating Yang.
Note: this site's Liver deck has Liver-Fire-generating-Wind and Liver-Blood-deficiency-generating-Wind slides, but no Liver-Yin-deficiency-generating-Wind slide matching this specific Empty-Heat tongue picture — a gap distinct from those two, so no pattern link is given here.