Damp Phlegm Obstructing Lung

The lifestyle factors contributing to this pattern include high stress levels and worry over finance or deadlines; constant pressure, overwork, an unhealthy diet, and sleep deprivation. This affects the spleen’s ability to transform and transport fluids which then forms phlegm. As your spleen is a major organ involved in the production of chi, and in […]

Phlegm Heat Obstructing Lung

The factors that cause this pattern are stress, relentless pressure and overwork in combination with unhealthy compensatory behaviours, such as smoking for stress management or high-pressure business lunches with excessive consumption of hot (this is an energetic quality not actual temperature), spicy and greasy foods. These affect the spleen’s function of transforming and transporting fluids […]

Phlegm Fluids Obstructing the Lungs

This pattern is common in middle-aged and older people. It is a chronic condition of phlegm in the lungs caused by over-exertion and poor diet over a long period of time which has impaired the spleen’s function of transforming and transporting fluids. In TCM the spleen produces phlegm and the lungs store it. As the […]