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Clinical manifestations: Bright red, swollen skin with weeping vesicles, intense burning and itching, rash appears quickly after contact, feeling of heaviness in body and head, dark, scanty urine.
Tongue: Red body with thick, yellow, greasy coating, may be swollen with teeth marks. Pulse: Soggy-rapid or slippery-rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and drain Dampness.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's Damp-Heat in the Bladder slide on the Lower Burner organ-system level, the same logic used across several other skin conditions.
2. Blood Deficiency with External Wind
Clinical manifestations: Dry, flaky, or thickened skin, itching worsening at night, pale or sallow complexion, aversion to wind or drafts, dull, brittle nails and dry hair.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with thin white and slightly dry coating. Pulse: Thin and wiry, often floating superficially.
Treatment principle: Nourish Blood, moisten dryness, dispel Wind and stop itching.
Note: moxa applicable on the tonifying points. This site's Liver-Blood deficiency slide has no Wind component, so no pattern link is given here — the same well-established absence found for several other skin conditions.
3. Spleen Deficiency with Dampness
Clinical manifestations: Loose stools or diarrhea, abdominal bloating after eating, poor appetite and fatigue, heaviness of body and limbs, dull, lingering papules or eczema.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with teeth marks, white greasy coating, moist surface. Pulse: Soggy and slow, possibly slippery.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Spleen Qi and drain internal Dampness.
Note: moxa applicable on the tonifying points. No deck on this site combines Spleen deficiency with Dampness in one slide, so no pattern link is given here.