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Deficiency of the liver’s free coursing action, usually caused by affect-mind binding depression, and characterized distending pain in the rib-side, constrained sensation in the chest, sighing, mental depression, and no desire for food and drink. There may be bitter taste in the mouth and retching. The pulse is stringlike. Constrained liver qì is treated by coursing the liver and resolving depression. Compare depressed liver qì and disharmony of liver qì.

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