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Clinical manifestations: A dry cough with scanty sticky phlegm, night sweats, afternoon tidal heat or a low-grade fever, a dry throat and mouth, heat in the palms soles and chest.
Tongue: Red, thin with cracks, little or no coating, dry surface. Pulse: Fine and rapid, especially weak at the right Cun.
Treatment principle: Nourish Lung-Yin, clear deficiency-heat, descend rebellious Qi, replenish body fluids.
Clinical manifestations: Poor appetite with bloating after meals, loose or poorly formed stools, fatigue and physical weakness, weak heavy limbs, a sallow or pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tooth-marked, thin white coating. Pulse: Weak, soft, empty at the right Guan.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Spleen-Qi, transform Dampness, and send nourishment upward to the Lungs.
Clinical manifestations: Heavy weak limbs with mild swelling, poor appetite and nausea, a sticky or greasy taste in the mouth.
Tongue: Red with a thick yellow greasy coating at the centre and root. Pulse: Soggy-rapid or slippery-rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Damp-Heat, strengthen the Spleen's transforming ability, reduce the inflammatory burden.
Clinical manifestations: Sore weak lower back, dizziness and tinnitus, night sweats with heat in the palms soles and chest, dry eyes with blurred vision, a scanty sticky phlegm cough, insomnia with vivid dreams.
Tongue: Red, thin with cracks, dry peeled surface. Pulse: Fine, rapid, wiry; weak at the left Chi and left Guan.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney and Liver Yin to provide the foundational moisture that stops the Lung tissue from withering.
5. Lung Yang Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: A chronic cough with thin watery frothy white sputum, a feeling of cold in the chest and upper back, cold hands and feet, no thirst with a preference for warm drinks, spontaneous sweating and fatigue.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, moist with teeth marks, thin white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak, especially at the right Cun.
Treatment principle: Warm the Lungs and dispel Cold, restoring Yang's warming and dispersing power.
Note: Confirmed absent: this site's lung deck has no standalone Lung-Yang-Deficiency slide (only Lung-Qi and Lung-Yin variants), so no pattern link is given here.
6. Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: A pale face, lips and nail beds, dizziness or light-headedness, palpitations, numbness or tingling in the limbs, scanty menstrual flow with pale blood.
Tongue: Pale, thin, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak or forceless, may be choppy if Blood stasis is present.
Treatment principle: Nourish and invigorate Blood, strengthening the Spleen's Blood-generation to give the Lung tissue a material foundation.
Note: Confirmed absent again: standalone Blood-Deficiency has no matching deck slide on this site.