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Clinical manifestations: No sweating after cold exposure, strong chills, mild fever, headache at the back of the head or neck, stiff neck, aching upper back, clear runny nose, sneezing, no thirst, prefers warm drinks.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale body with thin, white, moist coating. Pulse: Floating and tight.
Treatment principle: Releases the Exterior and opens the pores through warming to expel the Cold pathogen.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own exterior-invasion convention, Invasion-of-Wind-Cold on the Lung deck.
Clinical manifestations: Sensitive to wind or drafts, intermittent fever, chills and heat, fatigue, easily tired, general body aches, mild lack of sweating.
Tongue: Pale-red or slightly pale body with thin white moist coating. Pulse: Floating and moderate.
Treatment principle: Harmonizes Nutritive and Defensive Qi to restore normal pore function.
Note: no moxa. This site has no separate Camp-and-Defense (Ying-Wei) disharmony slide; linked to the Lung-Qi-deficiency slide as the closest related exterior-deficiency match.
Clinical manifestations: Feeling cold, aversion to cold, cold hands and feet, fatigue, low vitality, pale puffy face, loose stools, undigested food, frequent clear urine.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, moist with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak.
Treatment principle: Tonifies Kidney-Yang to generate the internal warmth needed for sweating.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. The source doesn't name an organ, so linked to this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide as the closest plain-Yang-deficiency match, flagged as this session has done before for un-organ-specified Yang Deficiency.
4. Body Fluids Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dry skin, thirst, wants water, dry cracked lips, scanty dark urine, dry hard stools, constipation.
Tongue: Red, dry, thin body with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin and generates body fluids to provide the source for sweat.
Note: no moxa. This site's decks have no organ-nonspecific Body-Fluids (Jin-Ye) deficiency slide — a plain fluid-consumption pattern distinct from Yin-deficiency-with-Heat — no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Heaviness and sluggishness, sticky greasy mouth, chest and upper abdominal stuffiness, dark yellow scanty urine, low-grade afternoon fever, skin sticky but dry.
Tongue: Red body with thick, yellow, greasy coating. Pulse: Soggy-rapid or slippery-rapid.
Treatment principle: Clears Damp-Heat obstruction to unblock the pores and restore sweating.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide, its general Damp-Heat match.
6. Phlegm in the Channels
Clinical manifestations: Patchy lack of sweat, heavy numb limbs, hard swellings around joints or muscles, purplish skin over affected areas, chest tightness, excessive phlegm.
Tongue: Purple body with stasis spots, white greasy coating. Pulse: Wiry and choppy or wiry and slippery.
Treatment principle: Transforms and expels Phlegm from the channels to clear localized sweat obstruction.
Note: this site's decks have no dedicated Phlegm-in-the-channels/joints/muscles slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here.