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Clinical manifestations: Deep coldness in the lower back and legs, sore aching lower back and knees, frequent urination especially at night, low energy and fatigue, pale or dark complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender body with teeth marks and a wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak, especially feeble at the rear (Chi) positions.
Treatment principle: Tonify Kidney-Yang, warm Yang, transform Qi, warm the Gate of Life Fire.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
2. Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Pale sallow complexion, pale lips and nail beds, dizziness or light-headedness, numbness or tingling in the hands and feet, scanty menstrual flow with pale blood.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak or forceless, possibly choppy.
Treatment principle: Warm the channels and disperse Cold, nourish Blood and unblock the vessels.
Note: moxa applicable given the Cold framing. This site has no organ-nonspecific Blood-deficiency slide on any deck — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
3. Qi Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue worsening with activity, shortness of breath on mild exertion, spontaneous sweating without physical effort, reluctance to speak or speaking in a low voice, skin feels cold especially in the hands and feet.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, and tender with teeth marks on the edges, thin white coating. Pulse: Empty or weak, soft and forceless, disappearing under deeper pressure.
Treatment principle: Tonify the Middle and augment Qi, raise sunken Yang, lift sunken Qi.
Note: moxa strongly indicated on ST-36/REN-6. This site has no organ-nonspecific Qi-deficiency slide on any deck — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Cold, clammy skin and limbs, heavy waterlogged sensation in the body, copious white watery phlegm, chest and upper abdomen feel stuffed and full, poor appetite and loose stools.
Tongue: Pale and swollen with teeth marks, thick white greasy wet coating. Pulse: Slippery, slow, possibly deep or soggy.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang and transform fluid retention, strengthen the Spleen and resolve Dampness.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36. Matched to this site's own Cold-Phlegm-in-the-Lungs slide — the closest match, given the chest-and-fluid framing here even though this presentation is skin-wide rather than purely respiratory.
Clinical manifestations: Sudden onset after cold exposure, strong aversion to cold with mild fever, no sweating, headache and body aches, clear runny nose and sneezing.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale body with a thin white moist coat. Pulse: Floating and tight.
Treatment principle: Induce sweating and release the Exterior, disperse Wind-Cold.
Note: moxa applicable given the Cold signs. Matched to this site's own Invasion-of-Lungs-by-Wind-Cold slide.
6. Terminal Yin Stage
Clinical manifestations: Ice-cold hands and feet, burning pain or heat in the chest, intense thirst with large fluid intake, hunger without desire to eat, irritability and restlessness.
Tongue: Red body with a white slippery coat, often redder at the tip. Pulse: Wiry and fine or faint, left Guan position feeling tense.
Treatment principle: Warm the organs, harmonize Cold and Heat, soothe the Liver and regulate the Middle.
Note: no moxa. This is the classical Terminal-Yin (Jue Yin) stage from the Shang Han Lun's six-stage framework, a distinct concept with no corresponding slide on any deck here — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.