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Clinical manifestations: Poor appetite, abdominal bloating after eating, loose stools, fatigue, heaviness in the limbs, pale complexion.
Tongue: Pale, puffy tongue with tooth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Soft, forceless, weakest at the right Guan position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Spleen Qi and strengthen the source of Qi and Blood production.
Note: moxa applicable on ST-36/BL-20. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide.
2. Qi and Blood Deficiency
Clinical manifestations: Persistent fatigue, pale or sallow complexion, dizziness, heart palpitations, shortness of breath on exertion, poor appetite.
Tongue: Pale body with possible thin appearance and tooth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, empty, weakest at the right Guan position.
Treatment principle: Tonify both Qi and Blood simultaneously to fill the vessels.
Note: moxa applicable. 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: Pale or sallow complexion, pale lips and nail beds, dizziness, heart palpitations, scanty menstrual flow with pale blood.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with thin white coating. Pulse: Fine, weak, forceless, may feel choppy.
Treatment principle: Nourish Blood to fill the vessels and strengthen the pulse with substance.
Note: no moxa on LR-14. Matched to this site's own Liver-Blood-deficiency slide — Liver stores Blood and scanty pale menstruation is a classic marker for this slide, the same organ assignment used elsewhere on this site.
Clinical manifestations: Palpitations worsening with activity, chest stuffiness or mild pain, cold hands and feet, bright pale or bluish face, mental listlessness.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender tongue with tooth marks and white slippery coating. Pulse: Deep, weak, feeble at the left Cun (Heart) position.
Treatment principle: Warm and strengthen Heart Yang to restore pumping force.
Note: moxa applicable on BL-15/REN-4. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Heart-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Cold aching lower back and knees, feeling cold throughout the body (worse in the lower body), frequent nighttime urination, low energy and desire to sleep.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender tongue with tooth marks and wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow, weak, especially soft at the Chi (rear) position.
Treatment principle: Tonify Kidney Yang to restore foundational warmth.
Note: moxa applicable throughout. Direct exact-name match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Profuse cold sweating, ice-cold limbs extending past the elbows/knees, ashen-white or bluish complexion, mental apathy or loss of consciousness, extremely feeble breathing.
Tongue: Pale, moist, flaccid body with thin white slippery coating. Pulse: Minute, nearly imperceptible, extremely faint and deep, may be impalpable.
Treatment principle: Rescue devastated Yang from collapse — a medical emergency.
Note: moxa essential on REN-4; this is a medical emergency requiring immediate hospital care, not home treatment. Direct match with this site's own Heart-Yang-Collapse slide, also badged Emergency.