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Hair
Falling out
Blood deficiency
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Hair
Prematurely gray
decline of Kidney essence
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Hair
State of the hair reflects:
Blood or Kidney essence
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Hair
Thickness and luster of the hairdepend on
Liver
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Hair
Dull hair with a tendency to split
Liver blood deficiency
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Face
face color reflects:
State of Qi/Blood/mind
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Face
moisture flects:
Stomach Qi
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Face
Lustrous & moist complexion
disease is mild, Qi and Blood are not deficient, prognosis is good.
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Face
Dark & haggard complexion
disease is severe, essential Qi is already injured, prognosis is poor
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Face
Clear and rather moist
Stomach Qi is still intact, good prognosis
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Face
Dry and rather lifeless
Stomach Qi is exhausted, poor prognosis
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Face
Green color
interior cold, pain, or interior wind (Liver pattern)
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Face
Deep color:
Floating color:
- Deep: interior
- Floating: exterior
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Face
Thin color:
Thick color:
- Thin: Qi deficiency
- Thick: Full condition
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Face
Scattered color:
Concentrated color:
- Scattered: new disease
- concentrated: old disease
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Face
Red, entire face
- excess heat syndrome from exogenous pathogen
- hyperactive Yang
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Face
Pale in general
- Cold syndromes of deficiency type
- loss of Blood
- yin excess or yang deficiency
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Face
Pale, bright white face with puffy, bloated appearance
deficiency of Yang Qi
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Face
Pale, withered face
Blood deficiency
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Face
Yellow in general
Deficicncy and damp type syndromes
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Face
Entire body is yellow
Jaundice
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Face
tends toward bright orange
yang jaundice from damp heat
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Face
Hazy and smoky yellow
yang jaundice with more damp than heat
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Face
Withered, dried up yellow
heat in Stomach and Spleen
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Face
Salow yellow
deficiency of Stomach and Spleen
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Face
dull pale yellow
cold damp in Stomach and Spleen
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Face
pale yellow without brightness
deficiency of both Qi and Blood
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Face
pale with red spots
- Spleen deficicney
- stasis of Liver blood
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Face
clear, moist between eyebrows
Stomach Qi is recovering after a long illness
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Face
smoky, dark yellow
yin jaundice from cold-damp or long-standing blood stagnation
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Face
blue in general
cold, pain, blood stagnation, convulsions
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Face
pale and blue
excess yin & cold, w/severe pain in epigastrium and abdomen
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Face
bluish-purple face/lips
w/ intermittent pain in precordial region or behind the sternum
stagnation of Heart Blood
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Face
bluish-purple face/lips
w/ high fever, violent movement of limbs in children
signs of infantile convulsions
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Face
Dark-bluish under the eyes
cold in the liver channel
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Face
white-bluish complexion
cold or chronic pain
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Face
bluish complexion in children
Liver wind
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Face
pale green under the eyes
Liver Qi stagnation
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Face
green with a red tinger
lesser yang pattern
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Face
green color with red eyes
Liver Fire
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Face
yellowish-green cheeks
Liver Qi stag, Liver Blood stasis, Cold in Liver, Liver-Wind
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Face
Green color on nose
stagnation of Qi with abdominal pain
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Face
Dark reddish green
stagnant Liver Qi turning into heat
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Face
pale green under the eyes
Liver Blood deficiency
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Face
Dark Gray in general
Kidney deficiency and blood stagnation
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Face
pale and dark complexion, with lumber soreness and cold feet
insufficient Kidney Yang
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Face
dark color complexion without brightness, but with scaly skin
prolonged blood stagnation
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Face
white
- deficiency or cold
- blood deficiency or yang dificiency
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Face
black in general
cold, pain, Kidney disease (Kidney yin deficiency)
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Face
black and moist looking
cold
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Face
black, dried up and burnt
heat from Kidey Yin deficiency
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Face
red tip of nose
Spleen deficiency
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Face
bluish color in the center of the forehead
heart has suffered shock
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Face
short chin
Kidney deficiency
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Eye
red color in the corners of the eye
Heart fire
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Eye
red color in the sclera
Lung heat
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Eye
green, blue, purple or red spots appearing at the end of red veins, w/purple blood spots on them
- lesions in back or chest.
- (If spots are not connected to veins, they have no diagnostic significance)
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Eye
Gray and scattered spots, like clouds
injury of Qi
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Eye
deep black spots, like sesame seeds
injury of Blood
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Eye
Black spots surrounded by a gray cloud-like halo
injury of Qi & Blood
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Eye
red veins visible and spiral shaped
pain
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Eye
upward, straight forward or sideways staring of eye
disturbance of Liver wind
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Eye
yellow color in the sclera
damp heat jaundice
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Eye
dull white color in the corners of the eye
heat
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Nose
slightly moist and shiny
disease not serious
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Nose
dry
heat in Stomach or LI
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Nose
Dry and black
presence of fire poison
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Nose
flapping of the ala nasi sometimes in asthmatic breathing
d/t Lung heat, Lung & Kidney Qi def.
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Nose
clear nasal discharge
exposure to cold
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Nose
turbid discharge
exposure to wind-heat
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Nose
prolonged turbid nasal charge with sticky smell
chronic rhinitis/ sinusitis
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Nose
tip of the nose is green or blue
abdominal pain
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Nose
tip of the nose is yellow
damp-heat
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Nose
white color
blood deficiency
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Nose
red color
heat in the Lungs and Spleen
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Nose
gray
impairment of water movement
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Ear
dry & withered auricles, burnt-black in color
prolonged or severe illness, due to consumption of Kidney essence, or d/t Kidney Qi deficiency
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Ear
Lobes are dry, withered and black
extreme exhaustion of Kidney Qi
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Ear
purulent discharge "Tin Ear" (infection)
damp heat of the Liver & Gall bladder
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Ear
white color
cold pattern
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Ear
bluish or black color
pain
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Ear
long and full lobe
strong Kidneys and good constitution
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Ear
thin and small lobe
poor constitution
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Ear
swelling and pain of ear or middle ear
fire in the Shao Yang channels
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Ear
swollen ear
pathogenic factor, full pattern
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Ear
thin ear
deficiency of Qi and Blood
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Teeth/ Gums
teeth are an extention of____
infuenced by ____
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Teeth/ Gums
teeth are bright and dry, like a stone
heat in Yang Ming in context of exterior diseases
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Teeth/ Gums
teeth are dry and grayish
Kidney Yin deficiency
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Teeth/ Gums
Gums are under the influence of____
Stomach
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Teeth/ Gums
Lips are under the influence of ___
Spleen
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Teeth/ Gums
pale gums
Blood deficiency
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Teeth/ Gums
redness and swelling of gums & teeth
- flaring of Stomach fire,
- if no pain- empty heat
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Teeth/ Gums
redness and swelling with bleeding
injury of the vessels by Stomach Fire
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Lips
pale lips
very pale lips
- pale: blood def.
- very pale: blood or yang def
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Mouth
bluish- purple lips
retention of cold or stagnation of blood
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Mouth
dry lips, deep red in color
- excessiv heat
- heat in the Spleen/ Stomach
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Mouth
mouth always slightly open
deficiency
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Mouth
only breathes through mouth
Lu Qi deficiency
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Mouth
sudden collapse with open mouth
sudden collapse with lock jaw
- open: deficiency
- closed: excess
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Mouth
greenish color around the mouth
Liver blood stasis & invasion of the Spleen by Liver
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Throat
red and swollen with yellow or white ulcer spots
excess toxic-heat in the Lung/ Stomach
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Throat
bright red with mild soreness
yin deficiency leading to hyperactivity of fire
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Throat
false membrane over throat, grayish white, hard to remove, bleeding after forceful rubbing, returns immediate
diphtheria from heat in Lu consuming yin
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Throat
sore dry but not swollen red
def Lu/ Kd yin
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Throat
chronic erosion of pharynx w/ ulcers that have raised, hard edges
blood stasis, phlegm-heat
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Throat
chronic dryness and erosion with grayish ulcers
severe yin def
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Tonsils
swollen tonsils normal color
retention of dampness or phlegm from Qi deficiency (most often seen in children recovering from pathogenic factors and chronic upper respiratory infections)
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Tonsils
chronic redness & swelling that comes and goes
chronic heat in Stomach, LI (common children)
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Tonsils
red and swollen tonsils with exudate
wind heat / toxid heat in Stomach, LI
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Tonsils
Grayish tonsils
acute glandular fever (mononucleosis)
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Limbs
healthy color & firmness of the flesh and around anckle/ wrists
good state of body fluids
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Limbs
skin lacks luster & is dry, flesh is shriveled
exhaustion of body fluids
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Limbs
pale nails
blood deficiency
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Limbs
bluish nails
liver blood stasis
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Limbs
bluish color venules on the thenar eminence of the thumb
cold in the Stomach
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Limbs
bluish and short venules
deficiency pattern
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Limbs
rigid
- Liver yang rising or Liver wind in elderly
- Bi syndrome with dampness
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Limbs
empty conditions
Liver def. & Kidney Yin, Spleen or Kidney-Yang (more elderly)
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Limbs
limb paralysis
- Spleen/ Stomach def
- Qi/ Blood def
- Liver yin / Kidney yin def
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Limbs
full conditions
retention of dampness in muscles and blood stasis
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Limbs
contraction of limbs:
acute-
empty-
- acute- wind
- empty- Liver blood/ yin def (elder, dupuytren)
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Limbs
tremors
(Liver) wind, phlegm, Liver yang rising, Liver blood def, Liver/ Kidney yin def
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Infant
First Gate, Gate of Wind
(base finger/MCP)
exterior pathogen/ mild disease
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Infant
Second gate, Gate of Qi (PIP)
interior/ more severe disease
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Infant
Third Gate, Gate of Life (DIP)
serious/ life-threatening disease
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Skin
Skin is related to what three organs?
Liver, Lung, Stomach
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Skin
Dry skin
Liver blood deficiency
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Skin
water edema
shui zhong, yang def edema, pitting
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Skin
Qi edema
Qi zhong, qi stag, damp, non pitting
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Appearance
overweight with mental depression
Qi def, excess phlegm damp
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Appearance
sit with neck extended
xs Lung syndrome w/ xs phlegm
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Appearance
weakness, motor impairment, muscular atrophy of the limbs
Wei syndrome
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Appearance
tall, slender body
wood type
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Appearance
broad, square shoulders, strongly built body, triangular face; moves slowly deliverately
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