Chest pain:
The lung is located in the chest, so chest pain is usually seen in heart and lung problems. The precordial pain or pain involving the inner side of the arm indicates that the location of the pain is in the heart due to asthenia of heart yang and qi as well as stagnation of qi and blood; distress and puncturing pain over the precordium is usually due to blood stasis in the heart vessels. Pain?over the chest means that the location of pain is in the lung due to exogenous pathogenic factors invading the lung or retention of phlegm and fluid in the lung which prevent qi from smooth flowing; chest pain with expectoration of foul sputum mingled with pus and blood indicates lung abscess due to exuberance of pathogenic heat in the lung which stagnates qi and blood and putrefies blood to cause abscess.
 
Hypochondriac pain:
The liver and gallbladder are located in the hypochondrium. The liver and gallbladder meridians circulate to the sides. Therefore, hypochondriac pain is often related to liver and gallbladder disorders .For example, hypochondriac pain is often seen in such disorders like liver depression and qi stagnation, damp heat in the liver and gallbladder, exuberant heat in the liver and gallbladder and retention of fluid in the hypochondrium, etc.