Source: Essentials from the Golden Cabinet (c. 220)

Indication: Plum-Pit Qi, Constrained Qi and Phlegm-Dampness

Symptoms: A feeling of something caught in the throat that can neither be swallowed nor ejected, a stifling sensation in the chest and hypochondria

Tongue: moist or greasy white coat; Pulse: wiry, slow or wiry, slippery