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Clinical manifestations: Sudden onset after wind or cold exposure, mild red rash or urticaria, sore red throat, thirst with desire for cold drinks, skin feels hot but may have mild chills.
Tongue: Red tip and edges with thin yellow or thin white-to-yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Dispels Wind, clears Heat, and relieves skin burning and itching caused by Wind-Heat invasion.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide via the established exterior-invasion convention, regardless of body location.
2. Toxic-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Painful, hot, red skin eruptions (boils, abscesses, carbuncles), thirst with desire for cold drinks, restlessness, irritability, or difficulty sleeping, dark scanty urine or constipation.
Tongue: Red body with prickly raised papillae, dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid and forceful, often full or overflowing.
Treatment principle: Clears Heat and resolves toxins deep in the body.
Note: no moxa; boils or abscesses needing drainage need medical evaluation regardless. This site has no standalone Toxic-Heat slide on any deck — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
3. Heat in the Blood
Clinical manifestations: Bright red skin rashes or eruptions, skin feels warm or burning especially at night, flushed red face, thirst with desire for cold drinks, restlessness, irritability, or difficulty sleeping.
Tongue: Red body with red spots or prickles, thin yellow dry coating. Pulse: Rapid, often wiry and forceful.
Treatment principle: Intense Heat enters the Blood level, making the Blood 'reckless' and agitated.
Note: no moxa. This site has no standalone Heat-in-the-Blood slide on any deck, a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Skin burning with weeping or oozing, heavy sluggish feeling in the body, sticky greasy taste in the mouth, loose sticky stools that feel incomplete.
Tongue: Red body with yellow greasy coating, may be swollen with teeth marks. Pulse: Soggy-rapid or slippery-rapid.
Treatment principle: Drains Dampness and clears Heat from the skin, especially with burning, oozing, or weeping.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide.
Clinical manifestations: Skin feels warm or burning especially at night, night sweats, dry mouth and throat worse in the evening, heat sensation in the palms, soles, and chest, flushed cheekbones.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak on deep pressure.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin and clears Empty-Heat, addressing the root cause of the burning sensation.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency-Empty-Heat-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: Skin burning that flares with anger or frustration, distending or burning pain along the ribs, irritability and explosive anger, bitter taste in the mouth, red face and eyes.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid.
Treatment principle: Blocked Liver-Qi generates internal Heat that rises upward along the Liver channel.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Stagnant-Liver-Qi-turning-into-Heat slide.