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Clinical manifestations: Dry, red tongue with cracks and little coating, night sweats and heat in the palms, soles, and chest, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dry mouth and throat worse at night.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry with little or no coating, possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Kidney-Yin and clears deficiency Heat.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Red tongue with thick, dry, yellow coating, intense thirst with desire for cold drinks, burning pain in the upper stomach, excessive hunger or constant appetite, foul breath, swollen, painful, or bleeding gums.
Tongue: Red body (especially center) with possible red prickles, thick dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid, slippery, full, particularly forceful at the right Guan position.
Treatment principle: Clears Stomach-Heat, cools the Blood, and stops gum bleeding.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Stomach-Heat-(or-Phlegm-Heat) slide.
3. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue and lack of strength, shortness of breath worse with exertion, dry mouth with little desire to drink, spontaneous daytime sweating.
Tongue: Pale-red body, thin or absent coating, possibly cracked dry surface. Pulse: Fine, weak, and possibly rapid.
Treatment principle: Tonifies Qi to generate and move fluids, nourishes Yin to restore moisture.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36. This site has no combined Qi-and-Yin-deficiency slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Red, thin, dry tongue with cracks and little to no coating, dryness worse in the evening or at night, afternoon or evening tidal heat, night sweats, thirst with desire to sip small amounts, flushed cheekbones.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak or hollow on deep pressure.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin and clears Empty-Heat.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency-Empty-Heat-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: A paradoxical dry tongue that feels dry but looks swollen with a thick greasy coating, thirst with little desire to drink, sticky or bitter taste in the mouth, bloating and fullness in the upper abdomen, heavy feeling in the body and limbs.
Tongue: Red body, possibly swollen with teeth marks, thick yellow greasy coating especially at center and root. Pulse: Soggy and rapid, often slippery.
Treatment principle: Clears Heat and resolves Dampness from Stomach and Spleen, unclogging fluid pathways.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide.
Clinical manifestations: Dark or purplish tongue body, stasis spots on the tongue, distended dark sublingual veins, desire to rinse the mouth without swallowing, fixed stabbing pain elsewhere in the body.
Tongue: Dark purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy, rough and uneven like a knife scraping bamboo.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood and dispels stasis, unblocking channels so fluids can reach the tongue.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide via the established discoloration-marker rule.