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Clinical manifestations: Breast distension, fullness, and bloating, worse with emotional stress, frustration, or before the period, irritability, mood swings, frequent sighing, tightness or distension along the ribs and chest.
Tongue: Normal or slightly red body with red or purplish sides, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry, taut like a guitar string.
Treatment principle: Course the Liver and resolve constraint, nourish Blood and soften the Liver, strengthen the Spleen.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Qi-stagnation slide.
Clinical manifestations: Mild, dull breast tenderness, breasts feel soft with no distinct lumps, scanty light-colored menstrual flow, dry eyes, dry mouth, or night sweats, lower back soreness or knee weakness.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating, dry surface. Pulse: Fine, rapid, and wiry, weak at the left Chi position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver and Kidney Yin, soothe the Liver and regulate Qi, nourish Blood and soften the Liver.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-and-Liver-Yin-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Breast distension, fullness, and bloating, poor appetite or no desire to eat, fullness and stuffiness in the upper abdomen after eating, fatigue especially after meals, loose or soft stools, excessive thin white phlegm or mucus.
Tongue: Pale, puffy body with teeth marks and a white, greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery overall, but weak and soggy at the right middle (Stomach/Spleen) position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi, strengthen the Spleen, harmonize the Stomach.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36. Linked to this site's own Stomach-and-Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide, the closest match, with the Phlegm component flagged as a gap that slide alone does not cover.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing breast pain, dark menstrual blood with clots, pain worse with pressure.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, move Qi and alleviate pain, disperse accumulations and dissipate nodules.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide via the established discoloration-marker rule.
Clinical manifestations: Intense, burning breast distension and pain, bitter taste in the mouth, dry mouth and throat, marked irritability and short temper, red painful eyes or flushed face, throbbing headache at the temples.
Tongue: Red body, especially redder on the sides, with a dry yellow coating, possible red prickles. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, forceful.
Treatment principle: Drain excess Fire from Liver and Gallbladder, clear Damp-Heat from the Lower Burner, clear Heat from the Liver channel.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Liver-Fire-blazing slide.