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1. Heat in the Blood
Clinical manifestations: Scalp redness with intense itching, dry scaling or small red papules, worse with heat, alcohol, or spicy food, feeling of body heat worse at night, thirst for cool drinks.
Tongue: Red body with red spots or prickles, thin yellow dry coating. Pulse: Rapid, often wiry or slippery.
Treatment principle: Clears Heat, cools Blood, and dispels Wind to stop itching.
Note: no moxa. This site's decks have no standalone Heat-in-the-Blood slide (distinct from Liver-Blood-stasis, which is discoloration-marker rather than Heat-marker driven), a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Oily, sticky scalp with itching and possible yellowish crusts, bitter taste in the mouth, dark scanty urine, feeling of heaviness.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, yellow greasy coating thicker at the centre and root. Pulse: Wiry, slippery, and rapid.
Treatment principle: Drains Damp-Heat from the Liver and Gallbladder and clears Fire to stop itching.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Gall-Bladder-and-Liver slide — since scalp itching isn't genital, this follows this session's established genital-vs-hypochondrium routing rule toward the general Liver/GB slide rather than the Liver deck's own genital-specific Damp-Heat slides.
Clinical manifestations: Dry, shifting scalp itch without redness or oiliness, dizziness, pale complexion, brittle nails, insomnia with vivid dreams, worse after menstruation or blood loss.
Tongue: Pale, thin, possibly trembling with thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and wiry.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Blood and moistens Dryness to anchor Wind and calm the scalp.
Note: moxa applicable on BL-18. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Blood-deficiency-generating-Wind slide.
Clinical manifestations: Itching worsens with emotional stress or anger, irritability and explosive anger, distending pain in the ribcage, bitter taste in the mouth.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides and thin yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid.
Treatment principle: Soothes Liver-Qi stagnation and clears Heat rising to the head.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Stagnant-Liver-Qi-turning-into-Heat slide.