Controlling wind and transforming phlegm

1. Also extinguishing wind and transforming phlegm. To eliminate internal wind-phlegm. Phlegm may arise when damp turbidity fails to transform and congeals or when intense internal fire heat condenses humor. It may rise with wind and penetrate the channels and network vessels, causing, in mild cases, numbness or dizziness and headache with spinning head and black vision and, in severe cases, paralysis. It is for this condition that the method of controlling wind and transforming phlegm is used.

Medicinal therapy: A representative formula is Pinellia, White Atractylodes, and Gastrodia Decoction (半夏白朮天麻汤 bàn xià bái zhú tiān má tāng).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on ST, and LR. Select CV-12 (Center Stomach Duct, 中脘 zhōng wǎn), LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ), ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge, 丰隆 fēng lóng), GB-20 (Wind Pool, 风池 fēng chí), and LR-3 (Supreme Surge, 太冲 tài chōng); needle with even supplementation and drainage. For dizziness and headache, add ST-8 (Head Corner, 头维 tóu wéi), and ST-41 (Ravine Divide, 解溪 jiě xī).

2. A method of treatment used to eliminate externally contracted wind evil causing expectoration of phlegm. The method of controlling wind and transforming phlegm addresses copious phlegm from wind evil fettering the exterior disinhibiting lung qì and causing qì congestion that cause phlegm.

Medicinal therapy: A representative formula is Cough-Stopping Powder (止嗽散 zhǐ sòu sǎn).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on LU and ST. Select BL-13 (Lung Transport, 肺俞 fèi shù), LU-7 (Broken Sequence, 列缺 liè quē), LI-4 (Union Valley, 合谷 hé gǔ), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), and ST-40 (Bountiful Bulge, 丰隆 fēng lóng); needle with drainage and moxa.

3. A method of treating round or oval lumps at the body's surface that are soft to the touch and neither red nor painful.