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Clinical manifestations: Distending, wandering pain in the ribs and flanks, pain triggered or worsened by emotional stress, frequent sighing and chest tightness, irritability.
Tongue: Normal or slightly red body with red or slightly purple sides, thin white coating. Pulse: Wiry, especially at left middle position.
Treatment principle: Course the Liver and resolve constraint, move Qi and alleviate pain.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Qi-stagnation slide.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain in one spot, dark menstrual blood with clots in women, purple or dark lips and nails, dry rough or scaly skin, pain worse with pressure.
Tongue: Dark purple body with purple stasis spots on the sides, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry and choppy, like a knife scraping bamboo.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, open the chest and disperse stagnation.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide — its title corresponds almost exactly.
Clinical manifestations: Burning or distending pain especially on the right side, bitter taste in the mouth, nausea or aversion to greasy food, dark yellow scanty urine, irritability.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides and thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Wiry, slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Drain excess Fire from the Liver and Gall Bladder, clear Damp-Heat from the Lower Burner.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Gall-Bladder-and-Liver slide.
Clinical manifestations: Dull burning ache below the ribs, dry gritty eyes and dry mouth, night sweats and afternoon low-grade fever, irritability.
Tongue: Red, thin body with redder sides, dry surface, little or no coating, may appear mirror-like or peeled. Pulse: Wiry, fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver and Kidney Yin, soothe the Liver and regulate Qi.
Note: no moxa given the Yin deficiency. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Yin-deficiency slide.