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Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain, pain worse at night, dark purplish lips, purple tongue with stasis spots and distended sublingual veins, dark menstrual blood with clots, rough, dry, or scaly skin.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, moves Qi and alleviates pain, opens the chest and disperses stagnation.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide per this session's discoloration-marker rule.
Clinical manifestations: Dark purple-red lips darkening with emotional upset, chest and rib-side distension or tightness, frequent sighing, irritability or mood swings, belching or passing gas that brings relief.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dusky body with a thin white coating. Pulse: Wiry, like a taut guitar string.
Treatment principle: Courses the Liver and resolves constraint, moves Qi and alleviates pain, invigorates Blood and dispels stasis.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Qi-stagnation slide.
Clinical manifestations: Bluish-purple lips worsening with cold, cold hands and feet, abdominal pain better with warmth or pressure, preference for warm drinks and curling up.
Tongue: Pale, puffy body with teeth marks, white moist or slippery coating. Pulse: Deep and slow, or deep and tight.
Treatment principle: Warms the channels and disperses Cold, nourishes Blood and unblocks the vessels.
Note: moxa strongly indicated. The source names a general Interior-Cold picture without a specific organ; the underlying warmth-deficiency mechanism is closest to this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide, flagged for that attribution.
Clinical manifestations: Lips pale-purple rather than dark eggplant, deep fatigue and lack of strength, shortness of breath with reluctance to speak, fixed stabbing pain worsening with pressure, dull, dusky facial complexion with a greyish tinge.
Tongue: Pale-purple body with possible stasis spots, tooth marks, and a thin white coat. Pulse: Deep, fine or weak, and choppy.
Treatment principle: Tonifies Qi, invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, unblocks the channels and collaterals.
Note: moxa applicable. This site's decks have no combined Qi-deficiency-causing-Blood-stagnation slide; linked to the Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide for the Qi-deficiency root, flagged for the Blood-stasis component not being captured there (already linked separately in pattern 1 above).
Clinical manifestations: Sharp stabbing epigastric pain fixed in one spot, pain worsens after eating, black tarry stools, dark purplish tongue with stasis spots, feeling of fullness in the upper abdomen.
Tongue: Dark purple body with possible stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or wiry, especially tight at the right middle position.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, moves Qi and alleviates pain, disperses accumulations and dissipates nodules.
Note: no moxa (black stools warrant urgent medical referral). This site has no organ-specific Stomach-Blood-stasis slide, so linked to the Liver-Blood-stasis slide as its general Blood-stasis default — this page's second, distinct use of that slide (fixed epigastric pain vs. pattern 1's more general presentation), within this page's two-pattern reuse cap.
Clinical manifestations: Stabbing chest pain in a fixed location, pain radiating to the shoulder or inner arm, palpitations or a pounding heart sensation, dark or purplish lips.
Tongue: Purple or dark body with stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Knotted (slow with irregular pauses) or rough, especially at the left Cun (Heart) position.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, moves Qi and alleviates pain, opens the chest and disperses stagnation.
Note: no moxa; chest pain radiating to the arm warrants urgent medical evaluation before assuming this pattern. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Heart-vessel-obstructed slide.