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Clinical manifestations: Dry, tired eyes, pale complexion and brittle nails, scanty pale menstruation, muscle cramps or numbness, vivid dreaming or restless sleep, dull headache, blurred vision.
Tongue: Pale body, especially at the sides, thin and slightly dry with a thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and choppy, often wiry at the left middle position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Liver-Blood and invigorate circulation to the eyes.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36/BL-18. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Blood-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Dry, gritty eyes, blurred vision or floaters, night sweats, heat in the palms, soles, and chest, dizziness and tinnitus, sore weak lower back and knees.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating, dry surface. Pulse: Fine, rapid, and wiry, weak at the left Chi position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver and Kidney Yin, brighten the eyes, clear Liver-Heat.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-and-Liver-Yin-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Poor appetite or reduced food intake, abdominal bloating after eating, loose stools, fatigue and lack of energy, dull yellowish or pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy body with tooth marks and a thin white coating. Pulse: Weak and soft, especially at the right middle position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Spleen-Qi, strengthen digestion to produce sufficient Blood for eye nourishment.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36/BL-20. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide.
4. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Poor night vision with overall fatigue, pale or sallow complexion, dizziness or lightheadedness, heart palpitations, poor appetite, pale lips and nail beds.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or have teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, may feel empty.
Treatment principle: Tonify both Qi and Blood, strengthen the Spleen, restore nourishment to the eyes.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36. This site has no combined Qi-and-Blood-deficiency slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over this session — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Night blindness that feels deep and constant, feeling cold all over, especially the lower back and knees, low energy, desire to sleep, mental dullness, frequent urination at night, pale or dark complexion lacking warmth.
Tongue: Pale, puffy and tender body with teeth marks, wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, and weak at the Chi position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Kidney-Yang, warm the Gate of Life Fire, restore Yang-Qi to illuminate the pupils.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Dull, fixed ache behind the eyes, vision worse at night and with fatigue, dark or purplish lips and nail beds, dark menstrual blood with clots.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood, dispel stasis, unblock collaterals, restore circulation to the eyes.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide via the established discoloration-marker rule.