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Clinical manifestations: Dull, band-like pressure headache; pain worsens with emotional stress; chest tightness or rib-side distension; frequent sighing; irritability or mood swings.
Tongue: Normal or slightly dark body, red or slightly purplish sides, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry, taut like a guitar string.
Treatment principle: Smooth Liver Qi flow, release constraint.
Note: no moxa except on HE-7 if used. Direct match on the core distension/irritability/sighing picture.
2. Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Dull, band-like pressure headache; worsens with fatigue and mental strain; pale complexion; dizziness or lightheadedness.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with a thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, sometimes choppy.
Treatment principle: Rebuild blood reserves to nourish the head and brain.
Note: moxa applicable on the tonifying points. Matches
Liver-Blood deficiency — pale complexion and dizziness are the same core markers named there.
Clinical manifestations: Dull, heavy ache or pressure worsening with exertion or end of day; persistent fatigue and weakness; shortness of breath on mild effort; reduced appetite and loose stools; pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, and tender with scalloped edges, thin white coating. Pulse: Empty or weak, soft and forceless.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Spleen Qi production, lift sinking clear yang to the head.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct match — the deck slide's poor appetite/loose stools/pale complexion/tiredness picture mirrors the source exactly.
Clinical manifestations: Throbbing or distending headache at the temples; dizziness or lightheadedness; irritability or mood swings; flushed face and red eyes; soreness and weakness of lower back and knees.
Tongue: Red body with red sides, thin dry yellow or scanty coat. Pulse: Wiry, possibly fine and rapid.
Treatment principle: Subdue rising Liver Yang, anchor yin, calm internal wind.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, reusing the same well-established Liver-Yang-rising slide used for Postconcussion Syndrome and Macular Degeneration.
5. Damp-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Sensation of head wrapped in a band or filled with cotton; dull heavy headache worse in damp weather; nausea/poor appetite/chest stuffiness; fatigue, drowsiness, brain fog.
Tongue: Pale, swollen body with tooth marks, thick white greasy coating. Pulse: Slippery, like beads rolling in oil.
Treatment principle: Transform dampness and resolve phlegm at the root via Spleen strengthening.
Note: no moxa. No deck on this site has a generic head-focused Damp-Phlegm slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain that does not move; pain worsens at night; history of head trauma or chronic stress; dark or purplish lips and complexion.
Tongue: Dark purple body with possible stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins. Pulse: Choppy, rough and uneven.
Treatment principle: Invigorate blood circulation, dispel stagnation blocking the channels.
Note: no moxa. Matches
Liver-Blood stasis — dark/purplish lips and a dark purple tongue with stasis spots are the same discoloration markers named there.