What is the meaning of “phlegm in the skin and outside the membrane”?

Phlegm outside the skin means that phlegm is outside the five viscera and inside the epidermis, which means that phlegm is blocked within the meridians and between the chest and the diaphragm.
Typical symptoms of phlegm outside the skin and membrane are coughing all year round, feeling cold in the back when the temperature drops, pain in the shoulder blades and back, and an increase in the amount of coughing and phlegm.
It can be treated with white mustard seed, which is pungent and warm in nature and goes to the lung meridian, while the pungent and warm medicine can warm the lungs, expectorate phlegm, disperse knots and relieve pain, and it is especially good at expectorating phlegm within the meridians and between the chest and the diaphragm. It can also treat cold lung, excessive phlegm, cough and phlegm stagnation in the meridians, shoulder and back pain and other diseases.
It is recommended that patients with phlegm in the skin and outside the membrane should go to the doctor in time and be treated under the doctor’s guidance of diagnosis.