Complexion

Question 0

What are the factors of normal complexion and what do they correspond with?

Answer 0

Luster -spirit….subtle reddish hue -good heart blood….moisture -good body fluids

Question 1

What are the 6 complexions?

Answer 1

Normal, white (pale), yellow (sallow), red, bluish/greenish, black

Question 2

What does the face color reflect?

Answer 2

State of qi and blood and is related to condition of the mind

Question 3

What does white indicate?

Answer 3

Cold, deficiency of blood or yang

Question 4

What does Bright white correspond with

Answer 4

Yang deficiency (yin organs)

Question 5

What does dull pale white or sallow white correspond with?

Answer 5

Blood deficiency

Question 6

Pale white w puffy face

Answer 6

Yang deficiency- not enough fire

Question 7

What does bluish white correspond with?

Answer 7

Cold

Question 8

What does yellow (sallow) indicate?

Answer 8

Spleen deficiency and/or dampness

Question 9

Pale yellow

Answer 9

Spleen qi def, blood def

Question 10

Grayish yellow

Answer 10

Spleen qi def with liver qi or blood stagnation

Question 11

Dry yellow?

Answer 11

Full or empty heat in st and spleen

Question 12

Ash-like yellow?

Answer 12

Dampness

Question 13

Rich yellow?

Answer 13

Qi and blood def with dampness

Question 14

What does red complexion indicate?

Answer 14

Heat (excess or deficient)

Question 15

Red face?

Answer 15

Excess heat - exposure to pathogenic factors with fever, hyperactive yang for zang-fu organs

Question 16

Red cheeks?

Answer 16

Deficient heat (empty heat) … Due to yin def- hot flash, tidal fever, night sweating

Question 17

Floating red?

Answer 17

Deficient heat - empty heat…. Severe internal cold, separation of yin/yang, yang floats to top- similar to false spirit

Question 18

Bluish/greenish - more greenish

Answer 18

Liver pattern - liver qi stagnation, liver blood stasis, cold in liver channel or liver wind

Question 19

Green complexion red eyes?

Answer 19

Liver fire

Question 20

Bluish/greenish… Blue between eyebrows in child

Answer 20

Liver wind- often seen in convulsions

Question 21

Greenish-bluish…Bluish complexion in pregnant women

Answer 21

Blood stasis and yang def and is always poor sign…. Toxicity

Question 22

Black/dark complexion is related to?

Answer 22

Cold, pain, blood stasis, kidney deficiency

Question 23

Pale black and blue

Answer 23

Cold

Question 24

Blue and black

Answer 24

Blood stasis

Question 25

Dark and dry

Answer 25

Kidney yin deficiency

Question 26

Dark around eye sockets

Answer 26

Kidney deficiency with phlegm or cold dampness in lower burner

Question 27

Dark and puffy

Answer 27

Kidney Yang deficiency

Question 28

Dark color scaly skin

Answer 28

Blood stagnation