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Clinical manifestations: Burning, very painful ulcers on the tongue tip or edges with red, swollen borders; mental restlessness, anxiety, and insomnia; thirst for cold drinks; bitter taste, especially after poor sleep.
Tongue: Red body with distinctly redder tip, showing swollen red prickles, dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid, forceful, overflowing, especially at left front.
Treatment principle: Clear Heart Fire, nourish Yin, calm the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — the deck slide names mouth and tongue ulcers explicitly among its symptoms.
Clinical manifestations: Multiple painful ulcers with red, swollen edges on cheeks, gums, or lips; burning pain in mouth and gums; foul breath; intense thirst for cold drinks; constipation with dry, hard stools.
Tongue: Red body, often with red prickles in centre, thick dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid, slippery, forceful, especially strong at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Clear Stomach Heat, cool Blood, relieve oral pain.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — the deck slide names mouth ulcers explicitly, alongside the same thirst-for-cold-drinks and dry-stools picture.
Clinical manifestations: Shallow, recurrent ulcers, often on tongue or inner cheeks; burning pain worsening in evening and at night; dry mouth and throat; five-palm heat, night sweats, malar flush; lower back soreness, tinnitus.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with little or no coating, possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid, possibly floating empty, weak at Chi.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney Yin, anchor rising Yang fire, clear deficiency heat.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, reusing the well-established Kidney-Yin/Empty-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Pale, few, slow-healing ulcers; cold hands and feet; chronic fatigue; loose stools or early-morning diarrhoea; sore and cold lower back; poor appetite with abdominal bloating.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, puffy with teeth marks and white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, slow, both Chi positions feeble.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang, dispel internal cold, tonify Qi, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: moxa strongly applicable throughout. Direct name match — cold, loose stools, fatigue and pale swollen tongue are the same markers named there.
Clinical manifestations: Recurrent, shallow ulcers with sticky or greasy taste in mouth; thick, greasy yellow tongue coating; bloating and stuffiness in upper abdomen; poor appetite and nausea; loose, sticky stools.
Tongue: Red body with thick, yellow, greasy coating thickest at centre and root, may be swollen with teeth marks. Pulse: Soggy and rapid, or slippery.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat, drain Dampness, transform turbidity.
Note: no moxa. Direct name match with this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide.
Clinical manifestations: Stabbing, fixed pain in ulcer; pain worse at night; dark purplish ulcer colour; slow-healing ulcers; dark lips or dusky complexion.
Tongue: Dark purple body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coating. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood, dispel stasis, nourish Blood.
Note: no moxa. Matches this site's Liver-Blood stasis slide — dark lips/complexion and a dark purple tongue with stasis spots are the same discoloration markers named there.