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Clinical manifestations: Explosive outbursts of anger, a quick temper, a bitter taste, distending or burning rib pain, a red face and eyes, restlessness and sleep difficulty.
Tongue: Red with redder sides, yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, pronounced at the left middle position.
Treatment principle: Course the Liver and resolve the constraint, clear Heat from the Liver and Blood.
Clinical manifestations: Intense irritability and agitation, a red flushed face, mouth or tongue ulcers with red edges, thirst for cold drinks, a bitter taste.
Tongue: Red with a distinctly redder tip, red prickles, yellow dry coating. Pulse: Rapid and overflowing, forceful at the left front position.
Treatment principle: Drain the Fire, resolve toxicity, clear Heat from the Three Burners.
Clinical manifestations: Agitation and mental restlessness, chest oppression and fullness, copious thick yellow sticky phlegm, a bitter taste, a flushed face with red eyes.
Tongue: Red with a redder prickly tip, swollen, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and transform Phlegm, clear Liver and Gallbladder heat.
4. Empty-Heat caused by Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Afternoon or evening irritability that worsens, night sweats, five-palm heat, dry mouth with a thirst for small sips, sleep difficulty.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak on deep pressure.
Treatment principle: Nourish Yin and clear the deficiency-heat.
Note: Confirmed absent again: this generic, non-organ-specific Empty-Heat-from-Yin-Deficiency category has no matching deck slide on this site.
Clinical manifestations: A quick temper and angry outbursts, throbbing distending temple headaches, dizziness with a heavy head and light feet, a flushed face and red eyes, sore weak lower back and knees.
Tongue: Red with redder sides, thin dry yellow or scanty coat. Pulse: Wiry and forceful at the left middle, may be fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Calm the Liver and subdue the rising Yang.
6. Heart and Spleen Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Mild but persistent, non-explosive irritability; poor appetite with bloating; fatigue and lack of energy; a pale sallow complexion; palpitations; difficulty sleeping.
Tongue: Pale, tender with teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, possibly choppy.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi, nourish Blood, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: No deck on this site combines Heart-and-Spleen deficiency as a single named pattern, consistent with this site's own Alcoholism, Nocturnal Emission and PMDD pages, so no pattern link is given here.