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Clinical manifestations: Light sleep with frequent waking and vivid dreaming, daytime fatigue and mental fog, poor appetite with bloating and loose stools, palpitations, pale complexion and lips.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, slightly tender with teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, empty at left Cun, soft at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi, nourish Blood, strengthen the Spleen, anchor the Shen.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. This site's Spleen- and Heart-Blood deficiency slide is the closest match.
Clinical manifestations: Easily startled awake by small noises or movements, vivid, often frightening dreams, timidity and indecisiveness during the day, heart palpitations upon waking.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, often wiry, especially weak at left middle.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Gallbladder Qi, anchor the Shen, reduce the startle response.
Note: moxa applicable on tonifying points. Direct name match with this site's own Gall-Bladder-deficient slide, first used for Cardiac Arrhythmia.
Clinical manifestations: Vivid, disturbing dreams causing abrupt waking, intense irritability or anger outbursts, bitter taste in mouth, red face, red eyes, or temple headaches, dark yellow urine.
Tongue: Red body, redder at sides and tip, dry yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, especially strong at left middle.
Treatment principle: Drain excess Fire from Liver and Gallbladder, clear Heart heat.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's Liver-Fire-blazing slide — irritability, red eyes, bitter taste and dark urine are the same markers named there, even though that slide isn't specifically Heart-invasion-framed.
Clinical manifestations: Waking with palpitations, night sweats, dry mouth and throat, lower back and knee soreness, dizziness and tinnitus.
Tongue: Red, thin body with redder tip, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weaker at rear positions.
Treatment principle: Nourish Heart and Kidney Yin, clear Empty Heat, calm the Shen.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Kidneys-and-Heart-not-harmonized slide — this is the Yin-deficiency/Empty-Heat version of that slide, correctly matched here.
Clinical manifestations: Chest oppression with thick yellow sticky phlegm, bitter taste in mouth, mental restlessness and agitation, heavy head and dizziness, flushed red face.
Tongue: Red body, swollen with red prickly tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, full in left Cun.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat, transform Phlegm, calm the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Heart slide.
Clinical manifestations: Bloating and fullness in upper abdomen, belching, waking soon after falling asleep especially after eating, sensation of food sitting heavily, irritability.
Tongue: Normal body colour with thin white coating, slight redness at sides in prolonged cases. Pulse: Wiry, especially at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Regulate Qi, harmonize the middle burner, promote descending function.
Note: no moxa except tonifying points. Direct name match with this site's own Stomach-Qi-stagnation slide.