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 following herbal formulas are potentially useful in the process of treating phlegm stagnation. For a complete list from our store with more details see our phlegm stagnation formula section.

• Nei Xiao Luo Li Wan
• Fu Zheng Kang Ai Wan

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.

• Electroacupuncture Or Moxibustion Promote Sciatic Nerve Regeneration (Back Pain Study) (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Knocking Seasonal Allergies Out With Acupuncture (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Acupuncture Modulates the Stress Response (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Acupuncture for Spinal Cord Injury (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Acupuncture Shown To Be More Cost Effective, and Effective Overall, than NSAIDS for Chronic Low Back Pain (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Parkinson’s Disease Yields To Basic Moxibustion Treatment (Study) (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Study Finds Acupuncture Effective for Chronic Tinnitus (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Acupuncture Effective for Fibromyalgia – Pain Modulators Improved For Months Following Treatments (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Acupuncture Effective for Chemo Fatigue – 10 Trials With 1327 Patients (Research – Yin Yang House)
• Acupuncture Provides Neuroprotective Effects Against Vascular Dementia (Research – Yin Yang House)

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