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Facial diagnosis
Gio Ch 23
Question | Answer |
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Dull white | Blood xu |
Bright white | Yang xu |
Bluish white | Yang xu with cold |
Sallow yellow | Sp & St xu or Blood xu |
Bright orange yellow | Damp heat with prevalence of heat |
Dull yellow | Damp heat with prevalence of dampness |
Withered dried up yellow | Heat in Sp/St |
Dull pale yellow | Cold damp in Sp/St |
Ash like yellow | Long standing damp |
Pale yellow surrounded by red spots | Sp xu & Liv blood stasis |
Clear & moist color in between eye brows | St qi recovering from illness of Sp/St |
Dried up, withered looking yellow color in between eyebrows | Poor prognosis |
Whole face red | Full heat |
Red cheekbones | Empty heat |
Green face | Liv patterns, Interior cold, pain or interior wind |
Pale greenish color under eyes | Liv qi stag or Liv blood xu |
Greenish color on cheeks | Liv qi stag, liv blood stasis, cold in Liv channel, or Liv wind |
Green complexion with red tinge | Shaoyang pattern |
Green complexion with red eyes | Liver fire |
Yellowish green cheeks | Phlegm w/ Liver yang rising |
Green color on nose | Qi stag w/ ab pain |
Dark reddish green complexion | Stagnant Liv qi turning into heat |
Grass-like green complexion | Collapse of Liv qi |
Dark bluish under eyes | Cold in Liver channel |
White bluish | Cold or chronic pain |
Dull bluish | Severe Ht yang xu w/ blood stasis |
Bluish complexion in kids | Liver wind |
Black | Cold, pain or Kid disease, esp K yin xu |
Black & moist | Cold |
Black & dried up, burnt looking | Heat |