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Clinical manifestations: Bloody, purulent stools with mucus; burning anal pain; a constant urge to defecate; abdominal cramping worse with pressure; dark scanty urine.
Tongue: Red with a yellow greasy coating, thickest at the root. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, soggy, pronounced at the rear position.
Treatment principle: Clear intestinal heat-toxin, dry Dampness, and stop the dysenteric bleeding.
2. Spleen Deficiency with Dampness
Clinical manifestations: Chronic loose stools without blood; bloating after eating; body heaviness; fatigue after meals; poor appetite; undigested food in the stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks, white greasy coating, moist surface. Pulse: Soggy and slow, soft, lacking force.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Spleen-Qi, drain internal Dampness, and stop the chronic diarrhea.
Note: Confirmed absent again: standalone Spleen-Deficiency-with-Dampness has no matching deck slide on this site.
Clinical manifestations: Abdominal bloating and fullness after eating; sticky or incomplete stools; rib-side distension; emotional frustration or low mood; bloating that worsens with stress.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks, white greasy coating thicker at the centre and root. Pulse: Slippery and wiry, right Guan soggy, left Guan wiry.
Treatment principle: Soothe Liver-Qi stagnation, strengthen the Spleen, and resolve the Dampness.
Clinical manifestations: Early-morning diarrhea, undigested food in the stools, cold abdominal pain relieved by warmth, sore cold lower back and knees, cold hands and feet, chronic watery diarrhea.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, puffy with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, slow, feeble in both rear positions.
Treatment principle: Warm the Kidneys, strengthen and warm the Spleen, and stop the diarrhea.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing abdominal pain that worsens with pressure; a dark purplish complexion or lips; irritability or emotional tension; dark clotted blood in the stool.
Tongue: Dark purple with stasis spots, distended sublingual veins. Pulse: Wiry and choppy.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood, dispel stasis, warm the channels, and relieve the fixed pain.