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Clinical manifestations: Poor appetite, bloating after meals, loose unformed stools, persistent fatigue, pale complexion, mild dull abdominal discomfort, worse after overwork or irregular eating.
Tongue: Pale, puffy tongue with tooth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Weak, soft, forceless, especially deficient at the right middle position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Spleen Qi, strengthen digestion, transform Dampness and Phlegm accumulation.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Stomach-and-Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Burning sensation during or after bowel movements, urgent explosive diarrhea with mucus or blood, incomplete-evacuation sensation, foul-smelling yellow-brown stools, cramping worse with heat and humidity.
Tongue: Red body with thick, yellow, greasy coating, thickest at the center and root. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and dry Dampness from the intestines, stop diarrhea and bleeding.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Large-Intestine slide.
Clinical manifestations: Abdominal bloating and distension that moves around, frequent sighing, irritability or mood swings, chest/flank distension, irregular bowel movements (alternating constipation and diarrhea), worse with emotional stress.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dark body with red or purplish sides, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry, taut like a guitar string.
Treatment principle: Course the Liver and resolve constraint, move Qi, normalize bowel function.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Qi-stagnation slide.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing abdominal pain, worse at night and with pressure, dark facial complexion or lips, a palpable abdominal mass or polyp.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, dissolve fixed masses.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide via the dark/purplish discoloration-marker rule.
Clinical manifestations: Cold sensation in the lower abdomen, heavy dragging feeling in the pelvis, loose watery stools without strong odor, aversion to cold with cold limbs and lower back.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with teeth marks, thick white greasy coating, excessively moist. Pulse: Deep, slow, soggy, especially at the Chi positions.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang and disperse Cold, tonify Qi, transform Cold-Dampness.
Note: moxa applicable throughout (especially BL-23/DU-4). Matched to this site's own Damp-Cold-in-the-Bladder slide via the established Lower-Burner organ-system convention.
Clinical manifestations: Early-morning diarrhea around 5 AM, chronic loose stools with undigested food, feeling cold with cold limbs especially below the knees, sore cold lower back and knees, deep fatigue.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, puffy with teeth marks and white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, slow, feeble at the Kidney and right middle Spleen positions.
Treatment principle: Warm and tonify Kidney and Spleen Yang, restore foundational warmth.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-and-Spleen-Yang-deficiency slide.