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Clinical manifestations: Stabbing or throbbing one-sided head pain, often behind or around the eye; eye redness, tearing, and facial flushing on the painful side; irritability and quick temper during attacks; symptoms triggered by emotional stress.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, thin dry yellow or scanty coat. Pulse: Wiry and forceful, possibly fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Calm the Liver and extinguish Wind, subdue Yang.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Yang-rising slide.
Clinical manifestations: Distending, bursting headache worse around eyes or temples, red face and bloodshot eyes, nasal congestion with yellow discharge, feeling of heat and thirst.
Tongue: Red tip and edges with thin yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Release the exterior, disperse Wind-Heat.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Headache triggered by cold or wind exposure, strong aversion to cold and chills, stiff, tight neck and upper back, clear watery nasal discharge, no sweating.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale body with thin, white, moist coating. Pulse: Floating and tight.
Treatment principle: Disperse Wind, release the exterior.
Note: moxa applicable given the Cold. Direct match with this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Cold slide.
4. Damp-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Heavy, wrapped or distending head pain, chest stuffiness and nausea, poor appetite and loose stools, fatigue, drowsiness, and brain fog.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with tooth marks, thick white greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery.
Treatment principle: Transform Wind-Phlegm and stop spasms, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: no moxa except tonifying points. No deck on this site has a generic Damp-Phlegm slide outside the Lungs, so no pattern link is given here.
5. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dull, lingering headache, worsens with fatigue or overwork, pale or sallow complexion, heart palpitations, persistent fatigue.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or teeth-marked, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, especially at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi, nourish Blood, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. No deck on this site combines Qi and Blood deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing pain in same location every attack, worsens with pressure, irritability and mood swings, chest or rib-side distension.
Tongue: Dark purple body with scattered stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins. Pulse: Wiry and choppy.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, move Qi.
Note: no moxa. Matches this site's Liver-Blood stasis slide — a dark purple tongue with stasis spots is the same discoloration marker named there.