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Clinical manifestations: Throbbing headache at the temples or crown, bitter taste, intense irritability, red or burning eyes, burning rib pain, mental agitation.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, dry yellow coating, possible red prickles. Pulse: Wiry, rapid, and forceful, especially at the left middle position.
Treatment principle: Drains excess Fire from the Liver and Gall-Bladder, clears Damp-Heat, soothes the agitated Heart-Shen.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Fire-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: Chest oppression or fullness, thick yellow sticky phlegm, bitter taste, head heaviness, flushed face, mental restlessness.
Tongue: Red body, swollen with red prickles on the tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, forceful especially at the left Cun position.
Treatment principle: Clears Heat, transforms Phlegm clouding the Heart, calms the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Heart slide.
Clinical manifestations: Excessive dreaming with frequent waking, palpitations and anxiety, poor appetite and bloating, pale complexion, lips, and nails, fatigue, loose stools, poor memory.
Tongue: Pale, puffy with teeth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, especially empty at the left Cun position and soft at the right Guan position.
Treatment principle: Strengthens the Spleen, nourishes Heart-Blood, anchors the spirit through tonification.
Note: moxa applicable. Linked to this site's own Spleen-and-Heart-Blood-deficiency slide — the source names a combined Qi-and-Blood deficiency while the deck slide is pure-Blood-framed, a framing gap flagged consistent with this session's earlier Heart-and-Spleen pages.
Clinical manifestations: Night sweats, lower back and knee soreness, heat in the palms, soles, and chest, tinnitus, poor memory, dry mouth and throat, restlessness.
Tongue: Red, thin body with redder tip, little or no coating, possible midline crack. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weaker at the rear (Chi) position.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Kidney-Yin to cool rising Empty-Heat, restores Heart-Kidney communication.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidneys-and-Heart-not-harmonized slide.
Clinical manifestations: Mental restlessness and agitation, very red tongue tip with red points, mouth or tongue ulcers with red edges, dark yellow urine, chest heat sensation.
Tongue: Red body, tip markedly redder with red prickles, yellow dry coating, midline crack may extend to the tip. Pulse: Rapid, forceful, overflowing, especially at the left Cun position, possibly hasty.
Treatment principle: Drains Heart-Fire directly, resolves toxicity, extinguishes blazing Fire disturbing the Shen.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Heart-Fire-blazing slide.