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Clinical manifestations: Frequent waking with panic, night sweats, soreness and weakness of the lower back and knees, dry mouth and throat, heat in the palms/soles/chest, vivid or disturbing dreams.
Tongue: Red body with redder tip, thin, little or no coating, possible midline crack. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weaker at the rear positions.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney-Yin to cool the rootless fire rising to the Heart, calm the Shen.
Note: no moxa given the Yin deficiency. Direct match with this site's own Kidneys-and-Heart-not-harmonized slide.
Clinical manifestations: Intense, vivid nightmares with confusion and fear, chest oppression and a phlegm sensation in the throat, bitter taste, flushed red face and eyes, gurgling sounds, mental restlessness and agitation.
Tongue: Red, swollen body with a red prickly tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, full at the left Cun position.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat, transform Phlegm, and calm the mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Heart slide.
Clinical manifestations: Explosive anger and irritability (especially at night), distending or burning pain along the ribcage, bitter taste, red face and eyes, vivid disturbing dreams or nightmares.
Tongue: Red body, especially redder along the sides, yellow coating. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, forceful at the left middle position.
Treatment principle: Clear Liver-Fire, drain Damp-Heat, and calm the agitated spirit.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Stagnant-Liver-Qi-turning-into-Heat slide, the same paraphrase-link convention used throughout this site.
Clinical manifestations: Sudden night terrors with a feeling of intense heat, mouth or tongue ulcers, red flushed face, thirst with desire for cold drinks, bitter taste, dark yellow urine, irritability and anxiety.
Tongue: Red body with a distinctly redder, swollen, red-pointed tip, yellow dry coating. Pulse: Rapid, forceful, overflowing at the left Cun position.
Treatment principle: Clear Heart-Fire, calm the Shen.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Heart-Fire-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: Night terrors with anxiety and being easily startled, fatigue and physical exhaustion, poor appetite/bloating/loose stools, sallow or pale complexion, palpitations or heartbeat awareness.
Tongue: Pale, tender body with teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, especially at the left Cun and right Guan positions.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Spleen-Qi to increase Blood production; nourish the Heart and anchor the Shen.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Linked to this site's Spleen-and-Heart-Blood-deficiency slide via its own palpitations/poor-appetite symptom set, the same match used for Sadness, Delayed Speech Development and Mood Swings.
Clinical manifestations: Upper abdominal bloating and distending pain worse with pressure, sour rotten-smelling belching and acid regurgitation, foul-smelling flatulence and loose stools with a sour smell, night terrors with an epigastric fullness feeling.
Tongue: Normal body with a thick, greasy, curd-like coating, thickest at the center. Pulse: Slippery and full, strongest at the right middle position.
Treatment principle: Promote digestion, resolve food stagnation, and clear the turbid Heat that disturbs the Shen.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Retention-of-Food-in-the-Stomach slide.