Interior Pattern

Symptoms

• Cough
• Shortness of breath
• Clear and Fluid Phlegm (worsened by cold)
• Throat clearing (cough sounds)
• Feeling of oppression and chest fullness
• Cannot sleep lying flat, needs pillows
• Aversion to cold and chilling of 4 limbs
• White and sticky tongue coating
• Slippery, slow and deep pulse.

Causes

1. Cold becomes interior if Defensive Qi does not defend well (Lung-Qi deficiency).
2. Obese person + cold attack
3. Spleen-Yang deficiency produces damp-phlegm.

Treatment

Resolve the dampness, tonify the earth and restore the descending of lung

• Eliminates Phlegm: ST-40; CV-12 (Moxibustion if cold phlegm); SP-9; BL-13; LU-7;
• In case of cold: LU-9
• BL-20