Below you will find theoretical and clinical applications information related to phlegm stagnation. We have created associations based on clinical experience that lead to possible treatment approaches with acupuncture points, individual herbs, TCM formulas, and more.

Phlegm Stagnation - Basics

Heaviness of the head/body, dizziness, poor appetite, stuffy chest, excessive mucus, poor health, pain that is fixed, stabbing a/or severe, dark complexion, fixed masses, bleeding w/clots, purple lips/nails.

Tongue Diagnosis

Purple, sticky coat.

Pulse Diagnosis

Slippery, choppy.

The following 2 TCM Formulas are empirically related to the treatment of Phlegm Stagnation

A

• An Gong Niu Huang Wan (Calm The Palace Pill With Cattle Gallstone) Clear Heat

B

• Ban Xia Hou Po Wan (Pinellia & Magnolia Pills) Regulate the Qi

The Chinese Medicine treatment of phlegm stagnation generally involves being certain that this pattern is the proper diagnosis. Each pattern may have multiple conditions and each condition may arise from one or more patterns (see treating the cause and not the symptoms).

The following 21 conditions may arise from phlegm stagnation . Each condition is listed with other possible patterns to expand diagnostic possibilities.

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