↑ reinforcing ↓ reducing ⊥ even method.
Clinical manifestations: Red, burning tongue tip, thirst for cold drinks, mental restlessness and agitation, mouth or tongue ulcers with red edges.
Tongue: Red body with a distinctly redder tip, red points on tip, yellow dry coating. Pulse: Rapid and forceful, overflowing at left Cun.
Treatment principle: Clear Heart Fire and guide heat downward through urination.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — mouth and tongue ulcers are named explicitly on this site's Heart-Fire-blazing slide.
Clinical manifestations: Burning tongue pain worse in the afternoon and evening, night sweats, five-palm heat, dry mouth and throat especially at night.
Tongue: Red, thin, dry body with little or no coating, possible cracks. Pulse: Fine and rapid, may be floating-empty, weak at Chi.
Treatment principle: Nourish Kidney Yin to anchor floating Yang and moisten the tongue.
Note: no moxa. Direct match, reusing the well-established Kidney-Yin/Empty-Heat slide.
Clinical manifestations: Burning or sticky tongue pain worse with rich foods, thick yellow greasy tongue coating, bloating and fullness after meals, loose, sticky stools, heavy, foggy head and limbs.
Tongue: Red body, possibly swollen with teeth marks, thick yellow greasy coating especially at centre and root. Pulse: Soggy and rapid, often slippery.
Treatment principle: Clear Heat and drain Dampness from the middle burner.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Damp-Heat-in-the-Stomach slide.
Clinical manifestations: Burning tongue pain worse on the edges, bitter taste in the mouth, intense irritability and short temper, red, painful or burning eyes, throbbing headache at temples.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, dry yellow coating, possible red prickles. Pulse: Wiry and rapid, forceful at left Guan.
Treatment principle: Clear Liver Fire, drain Damp-Heat from Liver and Gallbladder channels.
Note: no moxa. Direct match — irritability, bitter taste and a red tongue with redder sides are named on that exact deck slide.
5. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Mild, persistent soreness rather than sharp pain, pale tongue body, may appear thin or slightly swollen with teeth marks, fatigue and dizziness after activity, poor appetite and pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin or have teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, especially at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Tonify both Qi and Blood to nourish the tongue.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. No deck on this site combines Qi and Blood deficiency into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Stabbing, fixed pain on the tongue, dark purple tongue with stasis spots, distending sensation in the chest or ribs, irritability or emotional tension.
Tongue: Dark purple or dusky body with stasis spots, distended sublingual veins, thin white coat. Pulse: Wiry and choppy.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood and dispel stasis, open orifices, unblock channels.
Note: no moxa. Matches this site's Liver-Blood stasis slide — a dark purple tongue with stasis spots is the same discoloration marker named there.