Phlegm may be present when Liver Depression turns into Fire (when Liver Qi is blocked leading to the production of fire and heat). According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), phlegm is divided into tangible phlegm and intangible phlegm, both of which may occur in people with liver depression and fire.
1. Liver depression and fire is a series of uncomfortable symptoms caused by various reasons of liver depression and stagnation of qi, which results in fire over a long period of time. Liver depression and fire is easy to go up against the lungs, resulting in lung heat, which leads to coughing and phlegm, which can increase or decrease with mood swings, dry throat and bitter mouth, sputum is small and sticky, and it is difficult to cough out.
2. Liver depression and fire affects the body fluid metabolism, resulting in invisible phlegm accumulation in the body, easy to appear in front of the neck on both sides of the throat knot swollen gall tumor (equivalent to thyroid tumors), accompanied by irritable heat (irritability and sultriness), sweating, impatience and irritability, dry mouth and bitter mouth.
Or the formation of breast fetish (painful lumps in the breasts, closely related to menstrual cycle and emotional changes, equivalent to breast hyperplasia), accumulation of lumps under the dermatome, and so on.
You should consult a doctor in time after discomfort occurs, and choose medication under the doctor’s guidance to avoid delaying the condition.