✵Chest impediment: or Chest Qi-blockage is pectoral pain, sometimes accompanies by a feeling of suffocation.
✵Herbalist Zhang Zhongjing defined the Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage) in about 12 entries. These syndromes are all defined in details by his famous works.
Chest impediment.
[entry-01]. Master: for pulse manifestation which is over or inferior, the Yang pulse is faint and the Yin pulse is wiry (string-like), this is the case of chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage) and pains. For its reasons, extreme deficiency. Now there is Yang deficiency, knows it is at the upper energizer, chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage) and pains, its reason is that Yin pulse is wiry (string-like).
[entry-02]. Normal health person, no cold or fever, chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), shortness of breath (short breath) and could not breathe, is excess.
[entry-03]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), panting (pant for breath), cough and spit phlegm, pain in chest and back, the cunkou pulse is sunken and slow, the guan pulse is small, tense (tight) and rapid, ...
[entry-04]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), insomnia (not want to sleep), pain in heart and radiating to the back, ...
[entry-05]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), fullness in the heart, stasis Qi accumulated and bind in the chest, fullness sensation in chest, counterflow and disturbs the heart from under the costal region, ...
[entry-06]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), Qi obstacled (blockage) in the chest, or shortness of breath, this is the syndrome that there is Shuǐ Qì (pathogenic water) in the chest, ...
[entry-07]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), mild or urgent at sometimes (now and then), ...
[entry-08]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), suspended pain of the heart, ...
[entry-09]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), thoracalgia (chest pain) and radiating to the back, dorsodynia (pain in the back) and radiating to heart, ...
[entry-10]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), the patient always wants to massage chest, before it's suffering, only want to drink hot water, ...
[entry-11]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), palpitation under the heart (epigastric throb), for the reason there is phlegm, ...
[entry-12]. Chest impediment (chest Qi-blockage), pain under the heart (epigastric pain), or there are extravesated blood and accumulation of pathogenic cold, ...
References:
1.Chest impediment:an introduction.
2.Shang Han Za Bing Lun:the Treatise on Cold-induced and Miscellaneous Diseases.By Zhāng Zhòngjǐng.
3.Jin Kui Yao Lue Fang Lun:the Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber.By Zhāng Zhòngjǐng,Wáng Shūhé,Lín Yì,Gāo Bǎohéng.
4.Zhong Jing Quan Shu:the Complete Book of Zhongjing.By Zhào Kāiměi.