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Clinical manifestations: Fever stronger than chills, sore or painful throat, cough with thick yellow phlegm, thirst and dry mouth, nasal congestion with yellow mucus.
Tongue: Red tip, thin yellow coating, body slightly red. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Disperses Wind-Heat, clears Heat, resolves toxicity.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Invasion-of-Wind-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Afternoon or evening low-grade fever, night sweats, heat sensation in the palms, soles, and chest, dry mouth and throat with thirst for small sips, flushed cheekbones.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine (thin) and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clears deficiency Heat, nourishes Yin, subdues Yang.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency-Empty-Heat-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: Irritability and explosive anger, distending or burning pain in the ribcage, bitter taste in the mouth, feeling of heat worse with stress, headache at the temples.
Tongue: Red body, redder on the sides, with a yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid.
Treatment principle: Soothes Liver-Qi, clears stagnant Heat, harmonizes the middle burner.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Stagnant-Liver-Qi-turning-into-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Low-grade heat worsening with exertion or fatigue, deep persistent tiredness, shortness of breath, reluctance to speak, spontaneous sweating, reduced appetite with loose stools, pale or sallow complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, and teeth-marked with a thin white coating. Pulse: Deficient and weak, may feel large on the surface but collapses under pressure.
Treatment principle: Tonifies the middle and augments Qi, raises sunken Yang, lifts sunken Qi.
Note: moxa applicable. This site's decks have no Qi-Deficiency-Fever slide specifically; linked to the Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide for the underlying Qi-deficiency mechanism, flagged since that slide doesn't itself name a fever/heat symptom.
Clinical manifestations: Burning pain in the upper stomach area, excessive hunger without satiation, foul breath, swollen, painful, or bleeding gums, thirst with strong desire for cold drinks.
Tongue: Red body, possibly with red prickles in the centre, thick, dry, yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid, slippery, and forceful.
Treatment principle: Clears Stomach-Heat, cools Blood, nourishes Yin.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Stomach-Heat-(or-Phlegm-Heat) slide.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain worsening at night, internal heat sensation worse at night, dark purplish tongue with stasis spots, thirst with desire to rinse the mouth but not swallow, dry, rough, or scaly skin.
Tongue: Reddish-purple body with stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin dry yellow coat. Pulse: Choppy and rapid, often wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorates Blood, dispels stasis, moves Qi, alleviates pain.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide per this session's discoloration-marker rule.