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1. Bright Yang Stomach Heat
Clinical manifestations: Intense thirst craving cold water that returns quickly after drinking, a flushed red face, profuse sweating that does not relieve the fever, irritability and restlessness.
Tongue: Red with a yellow dry coating, possibly early cracks. Pulse: Overflowing and surging, rapid.
Treatment principle: Clear the intense Stomach-Fire that is rapidly consuming the body fluids.
Note: Confirmed absent again: this site's own Excessive Sweating page leaves the identically-named pattern unlinked for the same reason — its closest candidate, plain Stomach-Heat, is epigastric-pain framed with no matching content.
2. Greater Yang Accumulation of Water
Clinical manifestations: Intense thirst not relieved by drinking, scanty or difficult urination, lower-abdominal fullness or distension, vomiting water after drinking, a mild fever and aversion to wind.
Tongue: Pale or normal, puffy and moist with a white slippery coating. Pulse: Floating and slightly rapid, more pronounced at the left rear position.
Treatment principle: Promote urination and drain the accumulated fluid trapped in the lower burner, warming Yang to restore the Bladder's transformative function.
Note: Confirmed absent again: this classical Shang Han Lun water-accumulation stage is new to the site and has no matching deck slide, joining last batch's classical-framework additions.
Clinical manifestations: Thirst that returns quickly after drinking with a preference for small sips, a dry throat worse at night, five-palm heat, night sweats, sore weak lower back.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry with little or no coating, possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid, weak at the rear position.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney-Yin reserves and clear the empty-heat to anchor fluids long-term.
Clinical manifestations: Thirst with little desire to drink, a sticky or bitter mouth taste, bloating and upper-abdominal fullness, a heavy sluggish body, loose sticky stools.
Tongue: Red, may be swollen with teeth marks, thick yellow greasy coating especially at the centre and root. Pulse: Soggy and rapid, often slippery.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and transform the sticky Dampness blocking the Spleen's fluid transport.
5. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Fatigue and lack of strength, shortness of breath that worsens with exertion, dry mouth with little desire to drink, spontaneous and night sweats, warm palms soles and chest.
Tongue: Red or pale-red, thin or absent coating, possibly cracked and dry. Pulse: Fine and weak, often rapid.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi to restore the transformative capacity and nourish Yin to anchor the fluids.
Note: Confirmed absent again: combined Qi-and-Yin-Deficiency has no matching deck slide on this site.
Clinical manifestations: Drinking does not relieve the thirst; fixed stabbing pain that worsens at night; dark lips or a dusky complexion; rough dry skin or menstrual clots.
Tongue: Purple or dusky, stasis spots, distended dark sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Choppy or wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and remove the stasis obstructing the fine channels so fluids can reach the mouth.