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1. Bright Yang Stomach Heat
Clinical manifestations: High continuous fever that does not improve with sweating, profuse sweating, intense thirst with craving for cold water, flushed red face, irritability and restlessness, scanty dark urine.
Tongue: Red body with yellow, dry coating, early cracks may appear. Pulse: Overflowing and surging, rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear intense stomach heat, generate fluids.
Note: no moxa. Matched on the internal pattern to this site's Stomach-Heat slide, sharing the thirst-for-cold-drinks and heat-sensation core.
2. Summer-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Profuse sweating, intense thirst for cold drinks, irritability and mental restlessness, dizziness and heavy limbs, fever worse after sun exposure.
Tongue: Red body, redder tip, yellow greasy or sticky coat with dry surface. Pulse: Rapid, soggy or overflowing.
Treatment principle: Clear external summer-heat pathogen, replenish Qi and fluids.
Note: no moxa. No standalone Summer-Heat slide exists on this site, so no pattern link is given here.
3. Summer Heat with Dampness
Clinical manifestations: Fever that stays despite sweating, heavy aching limbs and body heaviness, stuffy chest and bloated upper abdomen, thirst with little desire to drink, nausea or vomiting, loose sticky stools.
Tongue: Red body with white, greasy coating, may turn yellow if heat intensifies. Pulse: Soggy and rapid.
Treatment principle: Release exterior, resolve dampness, clear summer heat.
Note: moxa or mild stimulation only on REN-12. No standalone Summer-Heat-with-Dampness slide exists on this site, so no pattern link is given here.
4. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Fatigue and lack of strength, dry mouth with little desire to drink, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, lingering low-grade fever, shortness of breath.
Tongue: Red or pale-red body, thin or absent coating, possibly cracked and dry. Pulse: Fine and weak, possibly rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear lingering summer heat while replenishing Qi and Yin.
Note: moxa or gentle needle applicable. No deck on this site combines Qi and Yin deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Loss of consciousness or delirium, cold hands and feet despite high fever, crimson stiff tongue, high fever worse at night, incoherent speech or inability to speak.
Tongue: Crimson body, stiff or shortened, yellow dry coating or little coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear intense heat invading the Pericardium, restore consciousness. This is a medical emergency — emergency medical care, not acupuncture, is the immediate priority.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — the deck slide names fever at night, delirium and incoherent speech/aphasia explicitly, and notes this level can progress to Blood-level Heat with convulsions (see Pattern 6).
Clinical manifestations: Violent convulsions or seizures, stiffness and rigidity of neck and limbs, eyes rolling upward or fixed gaze, loss of consciousness or delirium, high fever that does not break.
Tongue: Deep red or crimson, stiff and dry, possibly with prickles, yellow dry coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, forceful.
Treatment principle: Clear extreme heat penetrating to Blood level, extinguish internal Wind. This is a medical emergency — emergency medical care, not acupuncture, is the immediate priority.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — this site's Extreme-Heat-generating-Wind slide is explicitly badged an Emergency pattern and names convulsions, rigidity, tremor and coma exactly as here.