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Clinical manifestations: Forceful neck spasms and head twisting, intense irritability and agitation, red face and bloodshot eyes, bitter taste and dry mouth, worsens with emotional stress, spicy/greasy foods, alcohol, heat, overwork.
Tongue: Red body with redder sides, stiff or trembling, yellow dry coating. Pulse: Wiry, rapid, forceful.
Treatment principle: Calm the Liver, drain Fire, extinguish internal Wind.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Liver-Fire-generating-Wind slide — its tremor/spasm, irritability, and red-face-and-eyes presentation lines up closely, the same match used for Apraxia's analogous pattern last batch.
2. Phlegm in the Channels, Joints and Muscles
Clinical manifestations: Heavy, stiff neck with a sensation of thickness, fixed stabbing or dull pain in neck muscles, palpable hard knots or nodules, purplish or dark skin discoloration, chest tightness and excessive phlegm.
Tongue: Purple body with stasis spots, white greasy coating, distended sublingual veins. Pulse: Wiry and choppy, or wiry and slippery.
Treatment principle: Transform Phlegm-Dampness, dry Dampness, calm the channels.
Note: no moxa. This site has no Phlegm-in-the-channels/joints/muscles slide on any deck, a gap confirmed absent many times over — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
3. Wind-Cold
Clinical manifestations: Sudden onset after cold exposure, neck pain and stiffness worsening with cold, chills and strong aversion to cold, no sweating, headache and body aches.
Tongue: Normal or slightly pale body with thin white moist coating. Pulse: Floating and tight.
Treatment principle: Release the exterior, dispel Wind-Cold, relax neck and upper back muscles.
Note: moxa applicable on BL-10. This site has no organ-nonspecific Wind-Cold Bi-syndrome slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over (most recently Aversion to Cold) — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Fixed, stabbing neck pain that doesn't shift location, worse at night and with pressure, palpable hard lumps or knots in neck muscles, dark or purplish lips, nails, or facial complexion.
Tongue: Dark purple or dusky body with stasis spots and distended dark sublingual veins. Pulse: Choppy, sometimes wiry.
Treatment principle: Invigorate Blood, dispel stasis, move Qi.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Liver-Blood-stasis slide.
5. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent dull neck stiffness worsening with fatigue, overwhelming fatigue and weakness, pale or sallow complexion, dizziness or lightheadedness, heart palpitations, poor appetite.
Tongue: Pale body, may be thin with teeth marks on the edges, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, lacking force.
Treatment principle: Tonify Qi and Blood, strengthen the Spleen to nourish sinews.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36/SP-6. This site has no combined Qi-and-Blood-deficiency slide, a gap confirmed absent many times over — no pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Spasms worse at night or with fatigue, dizziness and ringing in the ears, dry eyes and blurred vision, sore lower back and weak knees, heat in the palms, soles and chest.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks and dry surface, scanty or absent coating. Pulse: Fine, rapid, wiry, weak at the left Chi (Kidney) position.
Treatment principle: Deeply nourish Yin and extinguish internal Wind.
Note: no moxa. Matched to this site's own Kidney-and-Liver-Yin-deficiency slide.