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Clinical manifestations: Catching colds easily or often, spontaneous sweating that worsens with activity, aversion to wind and drafts, fatigue and low stamina, pale, puffy face.
Tongue: Pale, slightly puffy and tender, tooth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Floating, empty, soft and hollow under pressure.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi, secure the exterior, astringe sweating.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct match — this site's own Lung-Qi deficiency slide explicitly names "propensity to catch colds" among its symptoms.
2. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Night sweats during or after a cold, dry mouth and throat with little desire to drink, warm sensation in palms/soles/chest, persistent fatigue, shortness of breath worse with exertion.
Tongue: Red or pale-red body with thin or absent coating, possibly cracked and dry. Pulse: Fine, weak, often rapid.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi, nourish Yin, generate fluids, reduce sweating.
Note: moxa applicable. No deck on this site combines Qi and Yin deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
3. Ying-Wei Disharmony
Clinical manifestations: Spontaneous sweating that worsens with light activity, aversion to wind and drafts, alternating chills and mild heat sensations, cold sweating.
Tongue: Pale-red or slightly pale body with a thin, white, moist coating. Pulse: Floating and moderate, or floating and weak.
Treatment principle: Harmonize Nutritive and Defensive Qi, release the exterior.
Note: moxa applicable. No deck on this site has a combined Nutritive-and-Defensive-Qi-disharmony slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Constant feeling of cold, even in warm rooms, cold hands and feet, profound fatigue, pale, clear, frequent urination, loose stools or diarrhea.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, moist with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang, dispel cold, tonify Qi, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Matched to this site's Kidney-Yang deficiency slide — cold, loose stools and fatigue are the same core markers named there, though the source frames this pattern generically rather than Kidney-specific.
Clinical manifestations: Cough with copious white sticky phlegm, easy to bring up, chest heaviness and congestion, poor appetite, bloating, loose stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks, thick white greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery, possibly soggy.
Treatment principle: Dry dampness, transform phlegm, regulate Qi, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: no moxa except tonifying points. Direct name match with this site's own Damp-Phlegm-in-the-Lungs slide.