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Clinical manifestations: Severe dizziness with a sensation of falling, throbbing or distending headache, tremor of the hands or head, stiff neck, flushed face and red eyes, irritability and easy anger.
Tongue: C Pulse: a
Treatment principle: red body, stiff or trembling, possibly deviated, with thin yellow or scanty coating,wiry, fine, and often rapid
2. Wind-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Sudden numbness or tingling in the limbs, slurred or difficult speech, copious white frothy sputum, heavy sensation in the body or limbs, chest stuffiness or fullness, dizziness with a heavy or distending feeling.
Tongue: T Pulse: r
Treatment principle: normal or slightly pale body, swollen with teeth marks, white greasy coating,wiry and slippery
3. Phlegm-Heat
Clinical manifestations: Constipation with foul-smelling stools, foul breath and a sticky unpleasant taste, thick yellow greasy tongue coating, copious yellow sticky phlegm or sputum, restlessness, irritability, and flushed face.
Tongue: C Pulse: l
Treatment principle: red, swollen body with thick yellow greasy coating,slippery and rapid
4. Empty-Wind Agitating in the Interior
Clinical manifestations: Trembling or twitching of the hands and feet, severe fatigue and listlessness, wasting and emaciation, dry mouth and throat, night sweats, dizziness and blurred vision.
Tongue: N Pulse: o
Treatment principle: crimson, thin, dry, cracked, with little or no coating, may tremble,fine and rapid, possibly wiry at the left middle position, weak on deeper pressure
5. Qi Deficiency Causing Blood Stagnation
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain in the affected limbs, persistent limb weakness and heaviness, dark or purplish complexion, fatigue worsening with mild activity, shortness of breath and reluctance to speak.
Tongue: T Pulse: o
Treatment principle: pale-dark or pale-purple body with possible stasis spots, teeth marks, thin white coat,deep, fine or weak, and choppy