What is wind-phlegm upheaval syndrome?

Wind-phlegm upturn is a syndrome in Chinese medicine, mostly manifested as wind and phlegm upturning the orifices, with clinical manifestations such as blurred vision, dizziness, tremor, and phlegm sounding in the throat. Wind-phlegm disturbance is mostly due to deficiency of liver yin, over-excessive liver yang, liver wind internal movement, wind evil easily entrapped phlegm upward disturbance of the orifices, so the clinical manifestations are not only faintness of vision, face redness, bitter taste of mouth and other deficiencies of the liver yin, but also dizziness, phlegm sounding in the throat, sudden fainting, unconsciousness, red tongue, thick and greasy moss, and stringy pulse and other symptoms of wind and yang entrapped phlegm upward disturbance of the orifices. Wind-phlegm upward disturbance syndrome clinically occurs in the elderly, old age is liver and kidney deficiency (liver and kidney function weakness), yin deficiency and wind movement, entrapment of phlegm upward disturbance, most of the use of antelope horn and hook vine soup in order to extinguish the wind and clear the fire, and exclude phlegm and open the orifices (through the transformation of phlegm to dredge the orifices, awake the mind). Acupuncture and moxibustion can also be used for treatment, such as the main acupuncture points to take Fenglong, the middle epigastric region, etc., and moxibustion to take the flat tonic and flat diarrhea method.