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Clinical manifestations: Limb weakness and heaviness worse after eating, poor appetite, abdominal bloating, loose stools, fatigue, pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy with tooth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Soft and weak, especially at the right middle position.
Treatment principle: Tonify the Middle and augment Qi, raise sunken Yang, lift sinking Qi.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide.
2. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Pale or sallow complexion, heart palpitations, dizziness, numbness or tingling in the limbs.
Tongue: Pale body, possibly thin with teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak, empty or slow.
Treatment principle: Rebuild both Qi and Blood simultaneously to nourish the muscles.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. This site's decks have no combined Qi-and-Blood-deficiency slide (confirmed absent many times before), so no pattern link is given — points still link fine individually.
Clinical manifestations: Palpitations, insomnia with vivid dreams, poor memory, poor appetite with bloating, pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale, slightly thin with possible teeth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and weak.
Treatment principle: Nourish Heart-Blood and strengthen the Spleen to support energy production.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Spleen-and-Heart-Blood-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Limbs feel cold, heavy, weak, worse at night or in the cold, lower back and knee soreness, frequent urination, leg/ankle swelling, low energy.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender with teeth marks and wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak.
Treatment principle: Warm Yang and transform Qi, warm the Ming Men fire.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Lower back and knee soreness/weakness, dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes with blurred vision, night sweats, heat in the palms/soles/chest, insomnia with vivid dreams.
Tongue: Red, thin body with cracks, little or no coating. Pulse: Fine, rapid, wiry.
Treatment principle: Nourish Liver and Kidney Yin to restore lubrication of the sinews.
Note: no moxa given the Yin deficiency. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-and-Liver-Yin-deficiency slide.
6. Damp-Phlegm
Clinical manifestations: Limb heaviness more than weakness, chest and upper abdominal stuffiness, brain fog, dizziness, poor appetite, nausea, loose sticky stools.
Tongue: Pale, swollen with scalloped edges, thick white greasy coat. Pulse: Slippery.
Treatment principle: Dry Dampness and transform Phlegm, regulate Qi and harmonize the Middle Burner.
Note: moxa applicable on the tonifying points. This is limb-heaviness Damp-Phlegm rather than the respiratory kind, so this site's Lung-specific Damp-Phlegm slide does not apply on an organ-system level — the standard non-Lung Damp-Phlegm absence, confirmed again here. No pattern link is given here; points still link fine individually.