✵Chest impediment: or Chest Qi-blockage is pectoral pain, sometimes accompanies by a feeling of suffocation.
✵Herbalist Zhang Zhongjing defined the Chest impediment in about 11 syndromes. These syndromes are all defined in details by his famous works:
Chest impediment.
✵Master: for cases pulse manifestation over or inferior, Yang pulse weak and Yin pulse wiry(string-like), is the case chest impediment and pains.For the reasons, extreme deficiency. Now Yang deficiency, know it is at the upper energizer, chest impediment and pains, for the reason Yin pulse wiry(string-like).
✵Case normal health no cold or heat, chest impediment, shortness of breath(short breath) and could not breath, is the case of excess.
✧Case chest impediment, panting(gasp for breath), cough and spit phlegm, pain in chest and back, Cun pulse sunken and slow, guan pulse small tight and rapid, use...
✦Case chest impediment, not want to sleep, pain in heart and strech to back, use...
✧Case chest impediment, glomus in the heart, stasis Qi accumulated and bind in the chest, fullness in the chest, counterflow below the costal region, use...also use...
✦Case chest impediment, Qi obstacled(panting) in the chest, or shortness of breath, for the reason water pathogen in the chest, use...also use...
✦Case chest impediment, mild sometimes urgent sometime, use...
✦Case chest impediment, hanging pain in the heart, use...
✦Case chest impediment, pain in the heart and throughout back, pain in the back and throughout heart, use...
✦Case chest impediment, the patient always want to massage chest, before its suffering, only want to drink hot water, use...
✦Case chest impediment, palpitation below the heart, for the reason there are phlegm, use...
✦Case chest impediment, pain below the heart, or there are back blood accumulated cold pathogens, use...
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.
✵Chest impediment: or Chest Qi-blockage is pectoral pain, sometimes accompanies by a feeling of suffocation.
