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Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing pain that does not move, worse at night and with pressure, dark menstrual blood with large clots, dark or dusky complexion, lips, or nails.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy, rough and scraping, may also be wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, moves Qi and alleviates pain.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide via the established discoloration-marker rule — dark/purple/dusky markers throughout.
2. Damp-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Copious white phlegm easy to cough up, heavy wrapped sensation in head and limbs, chest stuffiness and poor appetite, fatigue, drowsiness, brain fog.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with teeth marks, thick white greasy coat, wet surface. Pulse: Typically slippery or soggy, but can turn choppy when Dampness and Phlegm severely obstruct.
Treatment principle: Dries Dampness and transforms Phlegm, regulates Qi and harmonizes the Middle Burner.
Note: no moxa. This site has no plain Damp-Phlegm slide on any deck, a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
3. Phlegm-Fluids
Clinical manifestations: Fullness or stuffiness in chest or upper abdomen, copious white or clear watery phlegm, dizziness or heavy foggy head, gurgling or splashing sounds in the stomach, nausea or vomiting of clear watery fluid, feeling cold or aversion to cold.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with tooth marks, white greasy slippery coating, excessively moist. Pulse: Deep, wiry, slippery and choppy.
Treatment principle: Warms Yang and transforms fluid retention, strengthens the Spleen and resolves Dampness.
Note: moxa applicable given the Cold and Yang-deficiency signs. This is a Middle-Burner fluid-retention picture with no dedicated slide on any deck (the Lungs deck's Phlegm-Fluids slide is chest/cough-specific, not this gastric-fluid picture) — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Chest or rib-side distension, pain that moves around or comes and goes, frequent sighing, irritability or mood swings, belching or bloating that improves after passing gas.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dusky body with thin white coating. Pulse: Wiry and choppy, often slow, most prominent at the left middle (Liver) position.
Treatment principle: Courses the Liver and resolves constraint, moves Qi and alleviates pain.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Qi-stagnation slide.
Clinical manifestations: Fine choppy pulse that may feel rapid, dry mouth and throat with night sweats, dizziness and pale sallow complexion, insomnia with restless sleep, scanty or absent menstruation.
Tongue: Pale to pale-red, thin dry body with cracks, scanty or peeled coating. Pulse: Fine, rapid, and choppy, especially weak in the left Guan (Liver) and Chi (Kidney) positions.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin, clears deficiency Heat, moistens the vessels.
Note: no moxa. This site has no combined Yin-and-Blood-deficiency slide — linked here to the closer partial match, this site's own Liver-Yin-deficiency slide, with the Blood-deficiency component (pale sallow complexion, scanty menstruation) flagged as a gap that slide alone does not cover.