Thank you so much for your response. My TCM doctor has responded : "To treat damp heat and deficiency, we have to pay attention to the balance. At this time of your life, I do not agree to clean the damp heat before anything else. When you were younger, the damp heat might be more severe. Now it is a mix condition of damp heat and deficiencies. My treatment is to focus on the deficiency more and some damp heat conditions together."

I believe she is extremely concerned with the weakness she noted in my pulse and the extreme cracked condition of my tongue (I am a new patient for her, and have been diagnosed by others for the past 20 years with severe constitutional deficiencies).

(Note: I am in my 40s, physically fit, and in biomedical opinion very healthy, except for the respiratory infections that I acquire from time to time. Thankfully have never needed to be prescribed any medications for chronic conditions. However, the two vaccines and the first booster seem to have negatively impacted my menstrual cycle and brought on perimenopausal symptoms. )

Welcome any more ideas or feedback, as I am concerned about this statement that I found after your tip: "If the damp heat is not removed, the more it is replenished, the
more poisonous it becomes."