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Clinical manifestations: Cough with thick yellow phlegm, fever with mild chills, sore throat, thirst.
Tongue: Red tip with thin yellow coating, body slightly red. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Release the exterior, clear Heat, soothe the throat.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide via the fever/sore-throat/yellow-phlegm symptom set.
Clinical manifestations: Cough with thick yellow or green sputum hard to bring up, chest fullness and oppression, fever or body heat with thirst, flushed face and irritability.
Tongue: Red body, possibly swollen at the front, yellow greasy coating with red prickles. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat from the Lungs and transform Phlegm.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Heat-in-the-Lungs slide.
Clinical manifestations: Copious white or grey sticky phlegm (easy to expectorate), fullness or heaviness in the chest, poor appetite and abdominal bloating, fatigue and heaviness of the body, nausea, loose stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with teeth marks, thick white greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery, possibly soggy.
Treatment principle: Dry Dampness and transform Phlegm, regulate Qi and harmonize the middle burner.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Damp-Phlegm-in-the-Lungs slide.
4. Toxic-Heat
Clinical manifestations: High fever, thick yellow sputum difficult to expectorate, chest tightness and dyspnea, intense thirst with desire for cold drinks, restlessness and irritability, red face and dark urine.
Tongue: Red body with prickly thorns, dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid and forceful, often overflowing at the Lung position.
Treatment principle: Clear Lung-Heat, resolve toxicity, calm wheezing.
Note: no moxa — acute Full-Heat emergency pattern requiring urgent medical care. This site has no standalone Toxic-Heat slide, so no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
5. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dry cough with little or no phlegm, fatigue and shortness of breath on exertion, night sweats or spontaneous daytime sweating, dry mouth and throat with little desire to drink, low-grade afternoon fever or warm palms and soles.
Tongue: Red or pale-red body with dry surface, thin or absent coating, possibly cracked. Pulse: Fine, weak, often rapid.
Treatment principle: Tonify both Qi and Yin, recovery-phase pattern.
Note: no moxa given the Yin deficiency. This site has no combined Lung-Qi-and-Yin-deficiency slide (only Lung-Qi deficiency and Lung-Yin deficiency separately), so no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.