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Clinical manifestations: Low-grade fever, mild cough, sore throat, thirst, sparse clear fluid-filled vesicles.
Tongue: Red tip with thin yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Release the exterior and gently cool the Heat, expelling Wind-Heat from the surface.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide, the established exterior-invasion convention.
2. Toxic-Heat
Clinical manifestations: High fever with a flushed face, dense rash with large turbid vesicles, intense thirst for cold drinks, restlessness and irritability, dark scanty urine.
Tongue: Red body with prickly thorns and dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid, slippery, forceful.
Treatment principle: Aggressively clear deep Heat and resolve toxicity affecting the Qi and Nutritive levels.
Note: no moxa. This site has no standalone Toxic-Heat slide on any deck, a gap confirmed absent many times over — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
3. Toxic-Heat Stagnation
Clinical manifestations: Pustular lesions with thick foul-smelling pus, localized redness/swelling/severe pain at lesion sites, intense thirst, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: Deep red or crimson body with possible prickly papillae and thick dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid and forceful.
Treatment principle: Clear intense localized Heat and toxin, promote pus expulsion.
Note: no moxa; pustular lesions with pus need medical evaluation to rule out secondary bacterial infection. This site has no standalone Toxic-Heat slide on any deck — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: High fever with a flushed face, delirium/incoherent speech/loss of consciousness, cold hands and feet despite a burning hot body, convulsions or muscle twitching.
Tongue: Crimson, stiff or shortened, with yellow dry coating or minimal coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear extreme interior Heat from the Pericardium, calm the spirit — a medical emergency.
Note: no moxa; this is a medical emergency requiring immediate hospital care. Direct match with this site's own Heat-in-the-Pericardium slide, also badged Emergency.
Clinical manifestations: Cough with copious thick yellow or green sputum, shortness of breath and rapid labored breathing, wheezing or gurgling throat sounds, chest tightness, fever with a flushed face and thirst.
Tongue: Red body (possibly swollen at the front) with thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Lung Heat and transform sticky Phlegm obstruction.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Heat-in-the-Lungs slide.