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Clinical manifestations: Sticky, greasy sensation in the mouth, heavy, sluggish feeling in the body and head, dark yellow, scanty urine, loose stools that are sticky and incomplete, low-grade fever that worsens in the afternoon.
Tongue: Red body with yellow greasy coating, may be swollen with teeth marks. Pulse: Soggy-rapid or slippery-rapid.
Treatment principle: Clears Heat and drains Dampness, regulates Qi and harmonizes the middle burner.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Damp-Heat-invading-the-Spleen slide, its general Damp-Heat match.
Clinical manifestations: Sticky or greasy sensation in the mouth, heavy, bloated feeling in the upper abdomen after eating, nausea or queasiness, heavy, sluggish sensation in the limbs.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks, thick white greasy coating, excessively moist. Pulse: Slippery, may be slow or soggy.
Treatment principle: Dries Dampness and transforms Phlegm, regulates Qi and harmonizes the middle burner.
Note: no moxa. This site's decks name the closest match Cold-Dampness-invading-the-Spleen rather than Phlegm-Dampness specifically; linked as the nearest available slide.
3. Phlegm-Fluids in the Stomach and Small Intestine
Clinical manifestations: Splashing or gurgling water sounds in the stomach, fullness and distension in the upper abdomen, vomiting of thin clear watery fluid, thirst but only able to drink small sips.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with teeth marks, white slippery coating, excessively moist. Pulse: Deep, wiry, slippery.
Treatment principle: Warms Yang and transforms fluid retention, strengthens the Spleen and resolves Dampness.
Note: this is the classical Phlegm-Fluids (Tan Yin) Stomach/Small-Intestine presentation, with no corresponding slide on any deck here — no pattern link is given here, consistent with this session's earlier Vomiting page.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed stabbing pain worse at night, desire to rinse the mouth but not swallow water, dark clotted menstrual blood or purplish skin patches, irritability and restlessness.
Tongue: Reddish-purple body with stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin dry yellow coating. Pulse: Choppy and rapid, often wiry.
Treatment principle: Breaks Blood and dispels stasis, purges Heat from the Lower Burner.
Note: no moxa. Linked to this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide per this session's discoloration-marker rule; the Heat component isn't separately named on that slide.
Clinical manifestations: Thirst relieved by small sips of warm water, cold hands and feet, desire for warmth, fatigue and low vitality, pale, puffy face, loose stools or undigested food in stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen, moist with teeth marks, white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak.
Treatment principle: Warms Yang and disperses Cold, tonifies Qi and strengthens the Spleen.
Note: moxa strongly indicated throughout. The source doesn't name an organ, so linked to this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide as the closest plain-Yang-deficiency match, flagged as this session has done before for un-organ-specified Yang Deficiency.
6. Qi and Yin Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Chronic fatigue and weakness, dry mouth with only mild desire to drink, night sweats, thin, weak pulse.
Tongue: Red or pale-red body with thin or absent coating, dry surface, possibly cracked. Pulse: Fine and weak, possibly rapid.
Treatment principle: Tonifies Qi, generates fluids, nourishes Yin.
Note: this site's decks have no organ-nonspecific combined Qi-and-Yin-deficiency slide (only single-organ Qi- or Yin-deficiency slides exist individually) — no pattern link is given here.