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Clinical manifestations: Dry nose with a dry, hacking cough, scanty sticky phlegm or no phlegm, thirst and dry throat, dry skin and cracked lips, acute onset, often in dry weather.
Tongue: Red body with dry surface and thin white or yellow dry coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid (warm-dryness) or floating, tense and fine (cool-dryness).
Treatment principle: Clear dryness, moisten the Lungs, restore fluids to the nose.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — dry cough, dry throat, dry mouth and thirst are the same markers named there.
Clinical manifestations: Persistent dry nose and throat, dry cough with little or no phlegm, night sweats, afternoon low-grade fever, red dry tongue with cracks, heat in palms, soles, and chest.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry with cracks and little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak at right Cun.
Treatment principle: Nourish Yin, clear deficiency heat, moisten dryness.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, night sweats/afternoon fever/heat in palms and soles are the same Empty-Heat markers named there.
3. Body Fluids Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dry mouth and throat, thirst with desire to drink, dry skin lacking moisture, scanty dark urine, dry hard stools or constipation.
Tongue: Red, dry, thin body with cracks and little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, possibly choppy.
Treatment principle: Nourish Yin and generate fluids.
Note: no moxa. No deck on this site has a general Body-Fluids-deficiency slide independent of a specific organ, so no pattern link is given here.
4. Exterior Dry Cold Invading the Lungs
Clinical manifestations: Chills without sweating, dry cough with scant phlegm, dry, stuffy nose, mild headache.
Tongue: Normal pale-red body with thin, white, dry coating. Pulse: Floating and wiry, especially at right Cun.
Treatment principle: Gently disperse cool-dryness, diffuse Lung Qi.
Note: moxa applicable given the Cold/chills. This site's Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Cold slide is Wind-framed (body aches, sneezing) rather than this pattern's specifically Dry-Cold framing, so no pattern link is forced here.
5. Dry-Heat or Dry-Fire
Clinical manifestations: Parched nose and throat with a hot, burning sensation, thirst with a strong desire to drink cold fluids, dry cough with scanty, sticky phlegm, fever or feeling of body heat.
Tongue: Red, dry, possibly shrunken with cracks, thin dry yellow coat with red tip. Pulse: Floating and rapid, right Cun large or overflowing.
Treatment principle: Clear Lung heat, moisten dryness, rescue the body's fluids.
Note: no moxa. No standalone Dry-Heat slide exists on this site, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Dry nose but clear thin mucus, fatigue and weakness, poor appetite with bloating, loose stools, shortness of breath on exertion, pale face, weak voice.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender body with teeth marks and thin white slippery coating. Pulse: Weak overall, especially at right Cun and Guan.
Treatment principle: Tonify Spleen Qi to generate fluids and strengthen Lung Qi.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct name match with this site's own Spleen- and Lung-Qi deficiency slide.