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Clinical manifestations: Shortness of breath worse on exertion, spontaneous daytime sweating, weak or low voice, frequent yawning even without fatigue.
Tongue: Pale, tender body with possible teeth marks and thin white coating. Pulse: Weak and empty, especially at right Cun.
Treatment principle: Tonify Lung-Qi and restore the descending function, directly addressing the root cause of the yawning.
Note: moxa applicable. Direct match with this site's own Lung-Qi-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Yawning worsens after eating, abdominal bloating worse after meals, loose or soft stools, fatigue and heavy limbs, poor appetite.
Tongue: Pale, puffy body with tooth marks, thin white coating. Pulse: Deficient and soft, especially weak at right Guan.
Treatment principle: Strengthen Spleen-Qi — the Spleen produces the Qi the Lungs depend on, and weakness causes Lung-Qi to rise upward as yawning.
Note: moxa applicable. Direct match with this site's own Spleen-Qi-deficiency slide.
3. Heart Blood Deficiency with Liver Qi Stagnation
Clinical manifestations: Frequent sighing and yawning, emotional instability with mood swings, chest or rib-side tightness, palpitations or racing heart, insomnia or disturbed sleep.
Tongue: Pale, thin body with possible reddish sides, thin white coating. Pulse: Fine and wiry, weak at left Cun and wiry at left Guan.
Treatment principle: The body yawns to force stuck Qi to move and descend, providing temporary relief for an ungrounded spirit and stagnant Liver-Qi.
Note: no moxa, mixed technique for the mixed Deficiency-Excess picture. No deck on this site combines Heart-Blood deficiency with Liver-Qi stagnation into one slide, so no pattern link is given here.
Clinical manifestations: Feeling cold throughout the body especially the lower back and knees, profound fatigue and desire to sleep, frequent nighttime urination, low sex drive, loose stools or early morning diarrhea.
Tongue: Pale, puffy, tender with teeth marks and wet white coating. Pulse: Deep, slow and weak, especially at the Chi positions.
Treatment principle: Warm Kidney-Yang — when its fire dims, yawning becomes frequent as the body tries to draw in more Qi to compensate for the lack of vital warmth.
Note: moxibustion strongly indicated throughout. Direct match with this site's own Kidney-Yang-deficiency slide.
Clinical manifestations: Coughing up thick yellow or green phlegm, chest tightness and oppression, body heat or low-grade fever, thirst with desire to drink, restlessness and irritability.
Tongue: Red body with yellow greasy coating, possibly swollen at the front with red prickles. Pulse: Slippery and rapid.
Treatment principle: Trapped Qi rebels upward against sticky, heat-producing Phlegm obstructing the Lung's natural downward movement, triggering yawning as a release valve.
Note: no moxa. Direct match with this site's own Phlegm-Heat-in-the-Lungs slide.