↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Intense thirst with craving for cold drinks, red flushed face and eyes, profuse sweating, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: Red body, dry with a thick yellow coating, possibly with prickly papillae. Pulse: Rapid, forceful, and overflowing.
Treatment principle: Clear intense internal heat, generate fluids.
Note: no moxa. Matched on the internal pattern to this site's Stomach-Heat slide — its own point (ST-44) is used identically for draining Stomach Fire here.
2. Body Fluids Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Thirst with desire to drink water, dry mouth and lips, dry lackluster skin, scanty dark urine.
Tongue: Red, dry, thin body with cracks and little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Replenish depleted body fluids and moisten dryness.
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.
Clinical manifestations: Thirst with desire for small sips, thirst worse at night, dry mouth and throat, night sweats, heat in palms/soles/chest, flushed cheekbones.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating, dry surface. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Nourish the body's cooling and moistening reserves.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, reusing the well-established Kidney-Yin/Empty-Heat slide.
4. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dry mouth with little desire to drink, fatigue and lack of strength, shortness of breath on exertion, spontaneous sweating during day, warm sensation in palms/soles/chest.
Tongue: Pale-red or red body with a thin or absent coating, dry surface, possibly cracked. Pulse: Fine and weak, may be rapid.
Treatment principle: Boost Qi to transport fluids upward and nourish Yin.
SP-6 ↑
EX-HN-12 (Jinjin) ⊥
EX-HN-13 (Yuye) ⊥
Note: no moxa. No deck on this site combines Qi and Yin deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
5. Damp-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Thirst with little desire to actually drink, sticky or greasy sensation in mouth, body feels heavy and sluggish, chest and upper abdominal stuffiness, dark yellow or scanty urine, nausea.
Tongue: Red body with a yellow, greasy coating. Pulse: Soggy-rapid, floating soft and fine.
Treatment principle: Clear the sticky, turbid obstruction blocking fluid movement.
Note: no moxa. This picture is chest/digestive-framed rather than the Lower-Burner-specific presentation this site's Damp-Heat decks are built around, so no pattern link is forced here.
Clinical manifestations: Thirst with desire for warm drinks, cold sensation in lower back and legs, frequent clear urination especially at night, fatigue and low energy.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender body with teeth marks and a wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, and weak, especially at Chi.
Treatment principle: Warm the body's pilot light so water vaporizes properly.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct match — cold, frequent clear urination and fatigue are the same markers named on this site's Kidney-Yang deficiency slide.