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Clinical manifestations: Red watery eyes with photophobia, mild fever and chills, sore red throat, acute onset often with a cold or flu.
Tongue: Red at the tip and edges, thin yellow coating. Pulse: Floating and rapid.
Treatment principle: Disperse Wind-Heat, clear Lung-Heat, restore the Lungs' diffusing and descending functions.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Throbbing headache at the temples, eyes red swollen and painful, bitter taste in the mouth, intense irritability and quick temper.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, dry yellow coating, possible red prickles. Pulse: Wiry, rapid and forceful, especially at left Guan.
Treatment principle: Drain excess Fire from the Liver and Gallbladder, clear Heat from the Liver channel.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Fire-blazing slide.
3. Toxic-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Burning gritty pain, sudden onset often epidemic, thick yellow or green discharge, fever and sore throat, swollen eyelids.
Tongue: Red body with prickly raised papillae, dry yellow coating. Pulse: Rapid and forceful, may be slippery.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and resolve toxicity, disperse Wind-Heat, dissipate nodules.
Note: no moxa. No standalone Toxic-Heat slide exists on this site, a confirmed and recurring absence, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Mild persistent eye redness worsening in the afternoon or evening, night sweats, five-palm heat, malar flush, dry throat especially at night, lower back soreness and weakness.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with little or no coating, possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid, especially weak at the rear position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Yin, clear deficiency Heat, nourish Kidney-Yin.
Note: no moxa given the Empty-Heat. Direct match with this site's own Kidney-Yin-deficiency-Empty-Heat-blazing slide.
5. Heat in the Blood
Clinical manifestations: Visible red veins on the whites of the eyes, mild persistent redness rather than acute pain, worse at night, nosebleeds bleeding gums or heavy periods, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: Red body with red spots or prickles, thin yellow dry coating. Pulse: Rapid and wiry, possibly slippery.
Treatment principle: Cool the nutritive level, resolve Heat toxins, cool the Blood and nourish Yin.
Note: no moxa. No standalone Heat-in-the-Blood slide exists on this site, a confirmed and recurring absence, so no pattern link is given here.