Teacher Guo Weiting has divided the impediment syndrome into six types of wind impediment, coldness impediment, damp impediment, damp-heat impediment, the impediment from the deficiency in qi, blood, liver and kidney, and the impediment from phlegm stagnation. The self-prescribed empirical formulas of the wind-dispelling and impediment-removing decoction, coldness-dispersing and impediment-removing decoction, damp-resolving and impediment-removing decoction, heat-clearing, damp-eliminating and impediment-removing decoction, blood-nourishing, kidney-tonifying and impediment-removing decoction, and Longfeng impediment-removing decoction combined with external application of diet therapy have been adopted in treating the six types of impediment syndrome respectively. The therapeutic effect is significant. |