↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Cold hands and feet, soreness and weakness of the lower back, scanty urination.
Tongue: W Pulse: a
Treatment principle: pale, puffy, with teeth marks and a white slippery coating, excessively wet,deep, slow, and weak, particularly at the rear position
2. Spleen Deficiency with Dampness
Clinical manifestations: Heavy head as if wrapped, loose stools, abdominal bloating after eating, poor appetite, fatigue and drowsiness, sticky sensation in the mouth.
Tongue: T Pulse: o
Treatment principle: pale, swollen body with teeth marks, white greasy coating, moist surface,soggy and slow, soft and lacking force
3. Turbid Phlegm Blocks Orifices
Clinical manifestations: Clouded consciousness or foggy thinking, heavy head as if wrapped, rattling or gurgling phlegm sound in the throat.
Tongue: S Pulse: w
Treatment principle: pale, swollen body with teeth marks and a thick white greasy-slippery coating,slippery, often with a wiry quality
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing headache worse at night, dark purplish lips or complexion, distended dark veins under the tongue, history of head trauma or surgery, bluish tinge to a bulging fontanelle in infants.
Tongue: I Pulse: n
Treatment principle: dark purple body with stasis spots, engorged dark sublingual veins, thin white coat,choppy, rough and uneven
Clinical manifestations: Dull heavy sensation in the head, poor appetite and bloating after eating, loose stools, extreme fatigue and weak limbs, pale yellowish complexion.
Tongue: T Pulse: o
Treatment principle: pale, puffy, and tender with tooth marks and a thin white coating,soft, weak, and forceless, especially at the right middle position
Clinical manifestations: Dry eyes and blurred vision, night sweats with heat in the palms and soles, dizziness and ringing in the ears, flushed cheeks especially in the afternoon, delayed fontanelle closure with a thin body, enlarged head with dry red tongue.
Tongue: N Pulse: o
Treatment principle: red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating, dry surface,fine, rapid, and wiry, weak at the left rear and middle positions