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1. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue, pale or sallow complexion, dizziness or lightheadedness, heart palpitations, poor appetite, weakness worsening with overexertion.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or show teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak.
Treatment principle: Tonify both Qi and Blood simultaneously.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. No deck on this site combines Qi and Blood deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Lower back soreness and weak knees, loose stools or chronic diarrhea, poor appetite with bloating, frequent urination especially at night, cold hands and feet.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with teeth marks, white moist or slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, fine, especially weak at right Guan and both Chi.
Treatment principle: Warm and tonify the Spleen's transformative capacity while strengthening the Kidney's foundational reserves.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Matched to this site's Kidney- and Spleen-Yang deficiency slide — the cold hands/feet and loose stools here are Yang-deficiency-type Cold signs, even though the source names this pattern "Qi" rather than "Yang" deficiency.
3. Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dizziness or light-headedness, pale complexion and lips, numbness or tingling in hands and feet, scanty pale lochia, heart palpitations.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with a thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, like a thin thread.
Treatment principle: Nourish and invigorate Blood to restore the material foundation.
Note: moxa applicable. No deck on this site has a plain, organ-nonspecific Blood-deficiency slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed dull or stabbing lower abdominal pain, scanty lochia with dark clots, pale complexion with dusky or purple tinge, fatigue unrelieved by rest, brittle nails or dry rough skin.
Tongue: Pale body with a purple or dusky cast, thin, may show stasis spots and distended sublingual veins. Pulse: Fine and choppy, possibly wiry at left Guan.
Treatment principle: Nourish Blood while simultaneously dispersing stasis.
Note: moxa applicable on REN-4. Matches this site's Liver-Blood stasis slide — the dusky/purple tinge and stasis spots are the same discoloration markers named there, with a deficiency component layered underneath.
Clinical manifestations: Afternoon or evening hot flushes, night sweats, five-palm heat, dry mouth and throat worse at night, flushed cheekbones, irritability and restlessness.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with cracks and little to no coating. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak on deep pressure.
Treatment principle: Nourish depleted Kidney Yin while clearing deficiency heat.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, reusing the well-established Kidney-Yin/Empty-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Profound cold intolerance, cold hands and feet, desire for warmth, loose stools or diarrhea, abundant clear urination, low back soreness or weakness.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, moist with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak.
Treatment principle: Warm and tonify the body's deep Yang reserves, particularly Kidney Yang.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Matched to this site's Kidney-Yang deficiency slide — cold, loose stools and fatigue are the same core markers named there.