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Clinical manifestations: Persistently icy-cold hands, profound fatigue, chronic loose stools or early-morning diarrhea, sore and aching lower back and knees, aversion to cold requiring extra layers.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, and puffy with teeth marks and a white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, and slow.
Treatment principle: Strengthen the body's fundamental warmth by tonifying Kidney and Spleen Yang.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct name match with this site's own Kidney- and Spleen-Yang deficiency slide.
2. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue, pale or sallow complexion, shortness of breath on exertion, pale lips and nail beds, poor appetite, hands cold but not deeply frozen as in Yang deficiency.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or teeth-marked, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, or empty.
Treatment principle: Replenish the body's fuel and circulation through tonifying Qi and Blood.
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 dull or stabbing pain, numbness or tingling in hands, scanty and late menstruation with dark clots, pale or sallow complexion with a dusky tinge, brittle or ridged nails.
Tongue: Pale-purple body, thin, possible stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Fine and choppy, possibly wiry on left Guan.
Treatment principle: Nourish Blood and warm the channels to restore free circulation.
Note: moxa applicable on the tonifying points. Matches this site's Liver-Blood stasis slide — the pale-purple, stasis-spot tongue is the same core discoloration marker named there, with a deficiency component layered underneath.
Clinical manifestations: Cold hands that worsen with emotional stress, distension or tightness in chest or rib sides, irritability and mood swings with frequent sighing, sensation of a lump in the throat, hands cold while rest of body feels warm.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dark body, red or slightly purplish sides, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry, taut like a guitar string, especially at left middle.
Treatment principle: Smooth the flow of Qi by resolving emotional constraint.
Note: no moxa. Direct match on the core distension/irritability/sighing picture.