People with xiphoid process are usually introverted, with dark red face, bitter mouth and bad breath, yellow and greasy tongue coating, foul urine, fever in hands and feet, and swallow-tailed swelling and pain (xiphoid process).
There is a piece of cartilage under the sternum stalk, which is called xiphoid process in modern medicine and bone covering in Chinese medicine-covering means shielding, concealment and protection. Chinese medicine believes that covering the bone can protect the heart, because under the xiphoid process is the "giant que" of the heart.