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Clinical manifestations: Cramping or aching lower abdominal pain, often left-sided; fever with a body-heat sensation; nausea with poor appetite and heaviness in the limbs; urgent bowel movements with mucus or loose stools (or constipation with an incomplete-evacuation sensation).
Tongue: Red body with thick, yellow, greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Drain Heat, resolve Dampness, and break Blood stasis, unblocking the bowel gently.
2. Heat and Blood Stagnation in the Lower Burner
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing or cutting lower abdominal pain; lower-abdominal hardness resisting pressure; fever worsening at night; dark or black stools; irritability, restlessness, agitation; dark purple lips.
Tongue: Reddish-purple body with stasis spots, dry yellow coating. Pulse: Deep, choppy, rapid.
Treatment principle: Break Blood stasis and cool Heat before a fixed blockage forms an abscess.
Note: no moxa. No deck on this site has a Heat-and-Blood-stagnation-in-the-Lower-Burner category, so no pattern link is given here.
3. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dull, lingering (not sharp) abdominal pain; overwhelming fatigue and weakness; a pale or sallow complexion; poor appetite with loose stools; dizziness or lightheadedness.
Tongue: Pale body, may be slightly thin with teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, feels empty under pressure.
Treatment principle: Rebuild Qi and Blood so the Spleen can nourish the intestines and support healing.
Note: moxa applicable. No deck on this site combines Qi and Blood deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Low-grade afternoon or evening fever; night sweats; a dry mouth and throat, worse at night; heat in the palms, soles, and chest; a dull, persistent lower abdominal pain, worsening at night; flushed cheekbones; restlessness and difficulty sleeping.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak on deeper pressure, especially at the left Chi position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Yin to replenish cooling and moistening resources depleted by dry Heat.