↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Distending, wandering pain that comes and goes; worse with stress; frequent sighing or belching; irritability or mood swings; breast tenderness; irregular or painful periods.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dark, red or purplish sides, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry.
Treatment principle: Smooths Liver Qi, relieves distension and harmonizes Liver and Spleen.
Note: no moxa.
Clinical manifestations: Cold, cramping pain that improves with warmth; radiates to the groin, testicles or inner thigh; worse with cold or iced drinks; cold hands and feet; scrotal contraction.
Tongue: Pale, wet white coat. Pulse: Deep, wiry, slow or tight.
Treatment principle: Warms the Liver channel, expels Cold and stops pain.
Note: moxa is strongly indicated.
Clinical manifestations: Burning or hot sensation in the lower abdomen; pain worse with pressure; dark, scanty or painful urination; foul vaginal discharge or scrotal dampness; sticky stools; heavy, dragging feeling.
Tongue: Red, slightly swollen, thick yellow greasy coat, thickest at the root. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, more pronounced at the rear position.
Treatment principle: Drains Damp-Heat from the Lower Burner and stops burning pain.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Bladder slide, its established Lower-Burner Damp-Heat convention.
Clinical manifestations: Dull, lingering pain improved by warmth and pressure; loose stools with undigested food; cold hands and feet; fatigue and heaviness.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender, tooth-marked, white slippery coat. Pulse: Deep, slow and weak.
Treatment principle: Warms the Middle Burner, disperses Cold and restores Spleen Yang.
Note: moxa is strongly indicated.
5. Blood Accumulation in the Lower Burner
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain in the lower abdomen; tenderness and hardness on pressure; restlessness, confusion or manic agitation; normal urination.
Tongue: Purple or dark with stasis spots, dry yellow coat, engorged sublingual veins. Pulse: Deep and choppy.
Treatment principle: Breaks up Blood stasis in the Lower Burner, clears Heat and relieves pain and mental disturbance.
Note: Excess. Needs medical exclusion of acute surgical causes first. No matching deck slide (a Blood-stasis-with-Heat-in-the-Uterus pattern is not among the decks) — no pattern link is given here.
6. Blood Deficiency and Stagnation
Clinical manifestations: Dull or stabbing lower abdominal pain, better with gentle pressure; scanty, late periods with dark clots; pale or sallow face with a dusky tinge; dizziness, fatigue, palpitations; brittle or ridged nails.
Tongue: Pale with a purple cast, thin, possible stasis spots, thin white coat. Pulse: Fine and choppy, often wiry at the left middle position.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Blood and invigorates its flow, addressing both the deficiency and the stasis.
Note: Mixed Deficiency/Excess. No deck slide combines Blood deficiency with stagnation — no pattern link is given here.