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Clinical manifestations: Distension or bloating along ribs and flanks, breast distension with tenderness and swelling before periods, frequent sighing, irritability or short temper.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dark body with red or purple sides. Pulse: Wiry, tight like a guitar string, most prominent at left middle.
Treatment principle: Course the Liver and resolve constraint, invigorate Blood and dispel stasis.
Note: no moxa. Direct match on the core distension/irritability/sighing picture.
Clinical manifestations: Breast distension with heat, redness, and tenderness, bitter taste in mouth, irritability or short temper, distending or burning pain along ribs, red face and eyes.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides and yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, strongest at left middle.
Treatment principle: Soothe the Liver, clear Heat, relieve breast distension.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Stagnant-Liver-Qi-turning-into-Heat slide.
3. Phlegm-Dampness in the Middle-Burner
Clinical manifestations: Heavy, distended sensation rather than sharp pain, bloating and fullness in upper abdomen after eating, nausea, poor appetite, loose or sticky stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks and thick white greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and soggy, especially at right middle.
Treatment principle: Dry Dampness and transform Phlegm, regulate Qi and harmonize the Middle Burner.
Note: no moxa except tonifying points. No deck on this site has a Middle-Burner-specific Phlegm-Dampness slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Chronic dull breast distension, lower back and knee soreness, night sweats and heat in palms/soles, dry eyes and blurred vision, dizziness and tinnitus.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating, dry. Pulse: Fine, rapid, often wiry, weak at left Chi.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver and Kidney Yin.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, reusing the well-established Kidney-and-Liver-Yin-deficiency slide.
5. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Chronic dull breast distension, fatigue and weakness especially after exertion, pale complexion and lips, poor appetite.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or teeth-marked, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, especially at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi and Blood, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: moxa applicable. No deck on this site combines Qi and Blood deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Heavy, distended sensation rather than sharp pain, belching, nausea, poor appetite, loose or sticky stools, distension along ribs and flanks, frequent sighing.
Tongue: Normal or slightly red on sides, thin white coating. Pulse: Wiry, especially at left middle.
Treatment principle: Smooth Liver Qi and encourage downward flow rather than rebellious upward surge.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — the deck slide names breast distension explicitly among its symptoms, first use of this specific slide.