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Clinical manifestations: Cough with thick, sticky yellow phlegm, chest fullness or oppression, restlessness or irritability, thirst desiring cool drinks, flushed or red face.
Tongue: Red, swollen body with thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, especially prominent at the right front (Lung) position.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and transform Phlegm, disperse Phlegm obstructing Qi and Blood flow.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Phlegm-Heat-in-the-Lungs slide — a slippery rapid pulse is exactly what that slide's own pulse description gives.
Clinical manifestations: Mental restlessness and agitation, insomnia or severely disturbed sleep, heart palpitations, chest oppression with copious yellow sticky phlegm, flushed red face and red eyes, bitter taste and thirst.
Tongue: Red, swollen body with red prickly tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, particularly full at the left Cun (Heart) position.
Treatment principle: Clear Heart-Fire, transform Phlegm, calm the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Heart slide.
Clinical manifestations: Mental restlessness or agitation, thick yellow phlegm with rattling throat sounds, chest tightness and fullness, insomnia with irritability.
Tongue: Red, swollen body with prickly tip, thick yellow greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, full and rolling.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat, transform Phlegm, drain Fire from the Pericardium, settle turbid Phlegm clouding the Mind.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Phlegm-Fire-harassing-the-Pericardium slide.
Clinical manifestations: Stuffiness and fullness in the upper abdomen, poor appetite with nausea, loose sticky stools, heavy sensation in the body and limbs, thirst with little desire to drink.
Tongue: Red body with yellow, greasy coating thickest at center and root, possible teeth marks. Pulse: Soggy-rapid or slippery-rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and drain Dampness, strengthen the Spleen's transforming function.
Note: no moxa. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide.
Clinical manifestations: Epigastric bloating worsening after eating, sour rotten-smelling belching, aversion to food and its smell, foul-smelling flatulence, pain and bloating relieved after vomiting.
Tongue: Normal body with thick, greasy, curd-like coating thickest at center. Pulse: Slippery and rapid, forceful, most prominent at the right Guan (middle) position.
Treatment principle: Digest food stagnation, harmonize the Stomach, move Qi.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Retention-of-Food-in-the-Stomach slide — same clinical picture, close naming variant.