The clinical library

Learn the distinction, not just the symptom list.

Focused guides turn the app’s structured knowledge into a repeatable clinical reasoning flow: what supports a pattern, what argues against it, and what to ask next.

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Pattern guide

Liver patterns

Liver Qi Stagnation: symptoms and differentiation

A practical guide to Liver Qi Stagnation symptoms, tongue and pulse clues, and the findings that separate it from Liver Fire, Blood Stasis and Spleen Qi Deficiency.

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Pattern comparison

Liver patterns

Liver Yang Rising vs Liver Fire

Compare Liver Yang Rising and Liver Fire through headache quality, Heat signs, tongue, pulse and root-versus-branch reasoning.

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Complaint guide

Dynamic diagnosis

TCM headache diagnosis: a pattern-differentiation framework

A structured TCM headache assessment using onset, location, quality, triggers, associated symptoms, tongue and pulse to narrow competing patterns.

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TCM pattern differentiation for insomnia

Differentiate TCM insomnia patterns by sleep phase, mental agitation, Heat, deficiency, Phlegm, digestion, tongue and pulse findings.

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Observation guide

Spleen patterns

Spleen Qi Deficiency tongue: what the finding can—and cannot—tell you

Understand the pale, swollen or teeth-marked tongue associated with Spleen Qi Deficiency and the symptoms and pulse findings needed to support differentiation.

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Treatment reasoning

Pattern-led point selection

Acupuncture points for anxiety: why there is no universal ‘best’ set

A practitioner-oriented guide to commonly considered acupuncture points for anxiety and how pattern differentiation changes point selection.

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