↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Persistent greasy shine; bloating after eating; sticky or bitter taste; loose, incomplete stools; heavy, foggy head.
Tongue: Red, possibly swollen and tooth-marked, thick yellow greasy coat at the centre and back. Pulse: Soggy, rapid and slippery; strongest at the right middle position.
Treatment principle: Clears Heat, drains Dampness and restores Spleen-Stomach transformation.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Stomach slide.
2. Damp-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Thick, waxy oil; dull sallow complexion; poor appetite with sticky taste and no thirst; heavy limbs and head; brain fog.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with scalloped edges, thick white greasy coat. Pulse: Slippery — like beads rolling through oil.
Treatment principle: Dries Dampness and transforms Phlegm; strengthens the Spleen to prevent its formation.
Note: Mixed Deficiency/Excess. This site's decks have no Phlegm-Dampness slide for this presentation — no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Red, flushed, oily face; bitter taste; intense irritability and short temper; throbbing temple headaches.
Tongue: Red with redder sides, dry yellow coat. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, forceful at the left middle position.
Treatment principle: Drains Liver-Gall Bladder Fire and clears the upward-flaring Heat.
Note: no moxa.
Clinical manifestations: Oily yet dry, tight-feeling skin; flushed cheekbones; night sweats; dry mouth worse at night; heat in the palms, soles and chest; restlessness and insomnia.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry with cracks, little or no coat. Pulse: Fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Nourishes Yin fluids and clears deficiency Heat rising to the face.
Note: no moxa (Yin deficiency with heat signs).