Tag: Qi Stagnation with Phlegm

In my hometown lived Yang Lezhai, a martial scholar. His second sister-in-law, widowed in her twenties, raised a son alone. Though highly capable—managing all household affairs better than other female relatives—she suffered chronic depression from solitude. This caused recurrent “liver qi stagnation” (emotional blockage in TCM), manifesting as wheezing, coughing, groaning, and loss of appetite…