- Phlegm-Fluids: Spleen- and Kidney-Yang Deficiency
- Liver-Fire insulting the Lungs: Liver-Fire
- Lung-Qi Deficiency: Spleen-Qi Deficiency
- Lung-Yin Deficiency: Kidney-Yin Deficiency
- Lung-Dryness: Stomach-Yin Deficiency.
Excess Type
Damp-Phlegm in the Lungs
Clinical Manifestations
Repeated attacks of cough, profuse expectoration of white-sticky sputum, breathlessness, worse
in the mornings and after eating, a sensation of oppression in the chest, a feeling of fullness of
the epigastrium, nausea, poor appetite, tiredness, a feeling of heaviness and loose stools.
Tongue: Pale or normal with a sticky-thick-white coating.
Pulse: Slippery.
Treatment Principle
Dry Dampness, resolve Phlegm, tonify the Spleen, restore the descending of Lung-Qi and stop
cough.
Acupuncture
General Prescription
LU-5 Chize, Ren-12 Zhongwan, Ren-9 Shuifen, ST-40 Fenglong, SP-6 Sanyinjiao, BL-20 Pishu,
ST-36 Zusanli, BL-13 Feishu. Reinforcing method on ST-36, Ren-12 and BL-20, reducing
method on the others. Moxa is applicable.
Explanation
- LU-5 resolves Phlegm from the Lungs and restores the descending of Lung-Qi.
- Ren-12, Ren-9, ST-40 and SP-6 resolve Dampness and Phlegm.
- BL-20 and ST-36 tonify the Spleen to resolve Phlegm.
- BL-13, Back-Transporting point, is used for chronic patterns and restores the descending