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1. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Skin feels thin, dry, with loss of elasticity, pale or sallow complexion, fatigue and general weakness, dizziness or lightheadedness, poor appetite.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or have teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi and generate Blood, strengthen the Spleen and Lungs.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36/REN-4. This site has no combined Qi-and-Blood-deficiency slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Tight, hard, thickened skin with numbness, dusky or purplish skin discoloration, fixed stabbing pain worsening at night, rough dry scaly skin, dark menstrual blood with clots.
Tongue: Purple or dusky body with stasis spots and distended dark veins underneath. Pulse: Choppy, may be wiry if Qi stagnation is present.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, move Qi and alleviate pain.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide.
3. Damp-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Skin feels red, warm, and swollen, tightness with a thick heavy sticky sensation, yellow greasy tongue coating, body feels heavy and sluggish, bitter taste and sticky mouth, worsens in humid weather.
Tongue: Red body with yellow greasy coating difficult to scrape off. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and resolve toxicity, invigorate Blood and dispel stasis.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide on the skin-manifestation level, the same convention used for Hand Eczema last batch.
4. Wind-Cold-Damp
Clinical manifestations: Skin tightness with swelling but no redness or heat, skin feels cold to touch, heaviness and aching of limbs, stiffness improving with warmth and gentle movement, worsens in cold, damp, or windy weather.
Tongue: Pale or slightly swollen body with white greasy coating and moist surface. Pulse: Moderate or slow with a tight or floating quality.
Treatment principle: Dispel Wind-Dampness, tonify Qi and harmonize Protective and Nutritive Qi.
Note: moxa applicable. This site has no organ-nonspecific Wind-Cold-Damp Bi-syndrome slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Skin feels tight, cold, and puffy, swelling of the legs and ankles, early-morning diarrhea, chronic loose stools with undigested food, feeling cold especially in the hands, feet, low back, deep tiredness.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, puffy with teeth marks on the edges, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, slow, especially feeble at the rear (Kidney) and right middle (Spleen) positions.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang and disperse Cold, tonify Qi and strengthen the Spleen.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-and-Spleen-Yang-deficiency slide.