Syndrome differentiation and treatment
1. Syndrome of qi stagnation due to depression of the liver
Main symptoms and signs: There exists foreign object sensation like the plum pit or the lump which cannot be swallowed and spat out in the pharyngolarynx. In severe cases, the patient even feels asphyctic and unbearable. But the foreign object does not affect feeding. The patient often has mental depression, more misgivings and suspicion as well as thoracic tightness, hypochondriac distension, vexation, irascibility, susceptibility to sighing, or epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness. The pulse is taut.
Therapeutic methods: Soothing the liver to regulate qi, removing depression and eliminating masses.

2. Syndrome of obstruction of phlegm intermingled with qi
Main symptoms and signs: There exists foreign object sensation in the pharyngolarynx. The patient often feels profuse sputum which cannot be expectorated, or has cough, whitish sputum, lassitude of limbs, anorexia, epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, enlarged tongue with whitish greasy fur as well as slippery pulse.
Therapeutic methods: Regulating qi and resolving sputum, removing depression and eliminating masses.

In Chinese medicine, when treating a disease, the doctors take everything into into consideration, including climatic changes, environmental variations, emotional changes, the diet, the urine and the stool, the sleep, and the disorder of sex life. That is the feature of the Three Pathogens Theory in TCM. This etiology doctrine built on the basis of the macro methodology entirely differs from that of Western medicine. It is on the basis of the microscopic and pathologic anatomy. But it is exactly a biological, psychological, social and new medical model that Western medicine is attempting to pursue. While Chinese medicine established its own system with this medical model two thousand years ago.

Chinese doctor doesn’t considers static anatomy as a starting point for understanding the diseases, and does not rely on detection equipments. On the contrary, Chinese doctor depends on the unique ways of TCM diagnosis to experience and study the human dynamic life information. Also it is based on syndrome differentiation to guide the disease therapy. This method not only can save a lot of examination fees for patients, but also can help doctors exchange with patients more closely, thus reflecting a real humanistic spirit.