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Also drinker’s concretion. A hard lump that arises through drinking of liquor. Through excessive drinking, water collects in the chest and diaphragm and the rib-side forming into an aggregation. The Origin and Indicators of Disease (诸病源候论 zhū bìng yuán hòu lùn) states: Drinker’s aggregations results from heavy drinking after which [the person] is thirsty and drinks large amounts of fluid. When the liquor and fluid fail to disperse and collect below the rib-side, and bind and aggregation, that is periodically painful...

Medicinal therapy: Use formulas such as Major Seven Qì Decoction (大七气汤 dà qī qì tāng).

Biomedical correspondence: alcoholic cirrhosis.

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