1. Disease pattern arising in patients ordinarily suffering from phlegm disease who contract wind evil or in whom wind-heat becomes depressed.
2. Phlegm in the liver channel; characterized by a stringlike pulse, green-blue facial complexion, dizziness, fullness and oppression in the chest and rib-side, constipation and rough urination, periodic agitation and anger, and green-blue colored phlegm. According to Dān-Xī’s Heart-Approach (丹溪心法 dān xī xīn fǎ) wind-phlegm should be treated with wind-phlegm medicinals such as typhonium (Typhonii Rhizoma, 白附子bái fù zǐ), gastrodia (Gastrodiae Rhizoma, 天麻tiān má), realgar (Realgar, 雄黄xióng huáng), bovine bezoar (Bovis Calculus, 牛黄niú huáng), old scutellaria (Scutellariae Radix Veta, 枯芩kū qín), silkworm (Bombyx Batryticatus, 白僵蚕bái jiāng cán), and small gleditsia (Gleditsiae Fructus Abnormalis, 猪牙皂zhū yá zào).