↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Fatigue and desire to sleep after eating, cold hands and feet, loose watery stools with undigested food, dull abdominal pain improving with warmth, heaviness in the limbs, bloating and fullness after eating even small amounts, preference for hot food and drinks with aversion to cold.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender body with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak, especially at the right Guan position.
Treatment principle: Warm the Middle Burner, disperse Cold, and tonify Qi, emphasizing lifting Yang and transforming Dampness.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Spleen-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Dull cold ache in the upper belly improving with warmth, bloating and fullness after eating even small amounts, preference for hot food and drinks with aversion to cold, vomiting of clear watery fluid, cold hands and feet, fatigue and sleepiness immediately after meals.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, and tender body with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, and weak, especially at the right middle (Stomach/Spleen) position.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang and disperse Cold, tonify Qi and strengthen the Spleen, warm the Middle Burner.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Stomach-Deficient-and-Cold slide.