1. Stagnation of Liver Qi
Chief Manifestations: Mental depression, restlessness, feeling of fullness and oppression over the chest, distending and wandering pain in the hypohondrium, abdominal flatulence, eructation, loss of appetite, irregular bowel movements, thin and greasy tongue coating, and wiry pulse.

2. Stagnant Qi Transforming into Fire
Chief Manifestations: Irritability, distention and fullness over the chest and hypochondrium, dry mouth and bitter taste, or headache, red eyes, tinnitus, or gastric upset and acid regurgitation, constipation, red tongue with yellow coating, wiry and rapid pulse.

3. Stagnation of Blood
Chief Manifestations: Mental depression, irritability, headache, insomnia, amnesia, or pain over the chest and hypochondium, or chills or fever of some part of the body, dark purple tongue or with petechia and ecchymosis, wiry or unsmooth pulse.

4. Stagnation of Qi and Retention of Phlegm
Chief Manifestations: Mental depression, feeling of oppression over the chest, distension and fullness over the hypochondrium, feeling of a foreign body in the throat with difficulty to swallow or spit out, white and greasy tongue coating, wiry and smooth pulse. This syndrome, in TCM, is also known as "mei he qi" (globus hystericus).

5. Mental Confusion
Chief Manifestations: Restlessness, trance, suspiciousness, timidness, sentimentality, liability to cry, changeable moods, or frequent stretching and yawning, or unrestrained flourishing and shouting, pale tongue, and wiry pulse.

6. Deficiency of the Heart and Spleen
Chief Manifestations: Suspiciousness, dizziness, listlessness, palpitation, timidness, insomnia, amnesia, poor appetite, lusterless complexion, pale tongue with thin and white coating, and thready pulse.

7. Consumption of Heart Yin
Chief Manifestations: Restlessness, palpitation, amnesia, insomnia, dreamfulness, burning sensation of the palms, soles and chest, night sweating, dryness of the mouth and throat, red and dry tongue, thready and rapid pulse.

8. Consumption of Liver Yin
Chief Manifestations: Restlessness, irritability, dizziness, tinnitus, dryness of the eyes, photophobia, blurred vision, or headache and feeling of distention in the head, flushed face, red eyes, dry and red tongue, wiry and thready or rapid pulse.