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Clinical manifestations: Shortness of breath worsening with exertion, weak low voice and reluctance to speak, spontaneous daytime sweating, fatigue, pale complexion, frequent colds.
Tongue: Pale, tender body with possible teeth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Empty or weak, especially at right Cun.
Treatment principle: Tonify Lung Qi to restore the chest's capacity for full expansion.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct match with this site's own Lung-Qi deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Exhaling feels easier than inhaling, chronic shortness of breath worsening with exertion, lower back soreness and weak knees, fatigue and low stamina.
Tongue: Pale, puffy body with teeth marks and thin white moist coating. Pulse: Deep and weak, barely palpable Chi.
Treatment principle: Warm and tonify Kidney Yang to restore the Kidney's grasping power.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct name match with this site's own Kidneys-failing-to-receive-Qi slide.
Clinical manifestations: Copious white or grey sticky phlegm, chest stuffiness that eases after expectoration, wheezing or gurgling sounds, worse in the morning or after lying down, nausea or loose stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks, thick white greasy or slippery coating. Pulse: Slippery, possibly wiry at right Cun.
Treatment principle: Warm Spleen Yang and transform Phlegm-Fluids.
Note: no moxa except tonifying points. Direct name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fluids-obstructing-the-Lungs slide.
Clinical manifestations: Palpitations or uncomfortable awareness of heartbeat, shortness of breath worsened by physical activity, fatigue, pale complexion, spontaneous daytime sweating.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, thin white coat, possible midline crack toward tip. Pulse: Empty, weak, especially at left Cun.
Treatment principle: Tonify Heart Qi to restore the pumping force that supplies Qi and Blood to the Lungs.
Note: moxa applicable. Direct match with this site's own Heart-Qi deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Shortness of breath on exertion, poor appetite, abdominal bloating worse after eating, loose or soft stools, fatigue and heaviness, reluctance to speak.
Tongue: Pale, puffy body with tooth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Deficient and soft, weak at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Tonify Spleen Qi to restore the body's capacity to produce Qi from food.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct match on the poor appetite/loose stools/pale puffy tongue picture.
Clinical manifestations: Dry cough with scanty sticky phlegm, breathlessness worse in the afternoon or evening, night sweats, heat in palms/soles/chest, dry scratchy throat and mouth.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating, dry surface. Pulse: Fine and rapid, right Cun weak or floating and empty.
Treatment principle: Nourish Lung Yin to restore the cooling and moistening foundation.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Lung-Yin deficiency slide.