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Clinical manifestations: Frequent, urgent urination worsening with fatigue, straining or dribbling urination, deep achy soreness in the lower back and knees, poor appetite, loose unformed stools, pale sallow complexion.
Tongue: Pale and swollen with tooth marks along the edges, white moist coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, and fine.
Treatment principle: Tonify Spleen and Kidney Qi, raise sunken Yang, lift sinking Qi.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Linked to this site's own Kidney-and-Spleen-Yang-deficiency slide, the closest match, with the plain-Qi-deficiency framing here flagged against that slide's Yang-deficiency framing.
Clinical manifestations: Scanty, dark yellow urine, burning sensation during urination, night sweats and five-center Heat, lower back soreness and weakness, dry mouth and throat worse at night.
Tongue: Red, thin body with little or no coating, dry surface with possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak at the left Chi position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney-Yin, clear deficiency Heat, generate fluids.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Dribbling or hesitant urination improved by warmth, cold aching pain in the lower back and knees, multiple nighttime urination, cold hands and feet, intolerance of cold.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender body with teeth marks, wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, and weak, especially at the Chi position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Kidney-Yang, warm Yang and transform Qi, warm the Gate of Life Fire.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Burning or stinging pain during urination, cloudy dark yellow urine with a foul smell, lower abdominal fullness and heaviness, feeling of heaviness in the legs, thirst with no desire to drink much.
Tongue: Red body with yellow greasy coating, thickest at the back. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, pronounced at the Chi position.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and drain Fire, promote urination and relieve stranguria, clear Damp-Heat from the Lower Burner.
Note: no moxa; foul-smelling urine with heaviness needs medical evaluation regardless (possible active infection). Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Bladder slide via the established Lower-Burner organ-system convention.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis, pain worsens with pressure and at night, dark menstrual blood with clots, rough dry skin or dark circles under the eyes.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with possible stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, warm the channels and disperse Cold, move Qi and alleviate pain.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide via the established discoloration-marker rule.