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Clinical manifestations: Forgetfulness worsening with overthinking or worry, fatigue, poor appetite with bloating, palpitations, sallow or pale complexion, insomnia with vivid disturbing dreams.
Tongue: Pale, tender body with teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak.
Treatment principle: Tonify Heart Blood and Spleen Qi to nourish the Mind and restore memory.
Note: moxa applicable. This site's Spleen- and Heart-Blood deficiency slide is the closest match.
Clinical manifestations: Soreness and weakness of lower back and knees, premature greying or hair loss, tinnitus or gradual hearing loss, dizziness and vertigo, gradual fading memory.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with little or no coating, fine cracks may appear. Pulse: Fine and deep, especially weak at both rear.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney Yin and Essence, filling the marrow to support brain function.
Note: moxa applicable. Direct name match with this site's own Kidney-Essence deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Mental restlessness and irritability, palpitations and racing heart especially at night, five-palm heat, night sweats, soreness and weakness of lower back and knees, insomnia.
Tongue: Red, thin body with a redder tip, little or no coating, possible midline crack. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weaker at rear, more perceptible at left front.
Treatment principle: Nourish Heart and Kidney Yin, clear deficiency heat, calm the restless spirit.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Kidneys-and-Heart-not-harmonized slide — this is the Yin-deficiency/Empty-Heat version of that slide, correctly matched here.
Clinical manifestations: Mental restlessness and agitation, copious thick yellow sticky phlegm, chest oppression, bitter taste in mouth, flushed red face and eyes, dizziness and head heaviness.
Tongue: Red body, swollen with a red prickly tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, full and overflowing at left Cun.
Treatment principle: Clear Heart Fire, transform Phlegm, calm the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Heart slide.
Clinical manifestations: Memory worsens with stress or anger, irritability or depressed mood, frequent sighing, rib-side distension or chest tightness, feeling of a lump in the throat.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dark body, red or slightly purple sides, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry, taut like a guitar string, most noticeable at left middle.
Treatment principle: Smooth Liver Qi, relieve stagnation, clear the mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct match on the core distension/irritability/sighing picture.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing pain especially in head or chest, dark or purplish complexion/lips/nails, dark menstrual blood with clots, dark circles under the eyes, history of head injury.
Tongue: Dark purple body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy, or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood, dispel stasis, open the brain's collaterals.
Note: no moxa. Matches this site's Liver-Blood stasis slide — dark/purplish discoloration and a stasis-spot tongue are the same core markers named there.