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Colour 색깔 |
Other symptoms |
Meaning |
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Red = Heat |
Whole Face |
External Heat, Hyperactive Zang Fu |
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Cheeks |
Tidal fever, Night Sweats |
Internal Deficiency Heat |
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Pale = Cold |
Pale White |
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Yin Excess OR Yang Xu |
Puffy & Bloated look |
Yang Qi Xu |
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Withered White |
(*withered = sunken & dry by disease) |
Blood Xu |
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Yellow = Damp or Xu |
Body, Face, Eyes, Skin |
Jaundice = Damp Heat/ Cold |
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Bright Orange |
Yang Jaundice (Damp Heat) |
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Smoky Dark |
Yin Jaundice (Cold Damp / Chronic Stagnation) |
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Pale Yellow |
Blood & Qi Xu |
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Blue |
Pale Blue |
Pain @ Epigastrium / abdomen |
Excess Yin / Cold |
Bluish Purple |
Face & Lips + intermittent Pain |
Heart Blood Stagnation |
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Bluish Purple |
Face & Lips + High Fever + Convulsion @ child |
Infantile Convulsion |
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Dark Grey |
Pale + Dark |
Sore Lumbar + Cold Feet |
Kidney Yang Xu |
Dark |
Scaly Skin + no bright |
Chronic Blood Stagnation |
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Appearance 외양 |
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Meaning |
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Weight |
Overweight |
Mental depression |
Qi Xu + Excess Damp Phlegm |
Lose weight |
Chronic illness |
Exhaustion of Yuan Qi (essential Qi) |
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Thin |
Dry skin |
Blood Xu |
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Other |
Extended Neck |
Excess LU Syndrome + Excess Phlegm |
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Tremble limbs |
External / internal wind, infantile convulsion |
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Muscular atrophy |
Weak, more impaire, muscle astrophy @ limbs |
Wei Syndrome |
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Restricted move |
Pain / sore / swelling / heavy / numb @ tendons, bones, muscles |
Bi Syndrome |
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Numb / impaired move @ one side |
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Hemiplegia or Wind Stroke |
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Eyes |
Red |
Swelling |
Wind Heat / LV Fire |
@ Canthus, ulcer |
Damp Heat |
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Yellow |
Sclera |
Jaundice |
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@ Canthus, ulcer |
Damp Heat |
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Staring |
Up/ straight / sideway |
Liver Wind |
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Nose |
Discharge |
Clear |
Wind Cold |
Turbid |
Wind Heat |
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Chronic discharge |
Sticky |
Rhinitis / Chronic Sinusitis |
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Ears
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Blackish, dry |
Severe illness |
KD Jing Xu |
Purulent discharge |
(fluid from wound) |
Damp Heat (GB & LV) |
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Mouths |
Pale |
@ Gums |
Blood Xu |
Red & swelling |
@ gums |
Stomach Fire |
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+ bleeding @ gums |
Vessels damage by ST Fire |
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Pale |
@ Lips |
Blood Xu |
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Bluish Purple |
@ Lips |
Cold Retention / Blood Stagnation |
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Red / Dry |
@ Lips |
Excess Heat |
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Open mouth |
Sudden collapse |
Xu condition |
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Locked Jaw |
Sudden collapse |
Excess condition |
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Throat |
Red, swell |
+ Sore |
LU & ST Heat |
+ Yellow / White Ulcer spots |
Toxic Heat @ LU / ST |
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Bright Red |
Mild sore |
Yin Xu + Hyperactive Heat |
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False Gray & White membrane over throat – hard to remove, bleed when removed |
Heat damage @ LU, consuming Yin |
Temperature 체온 |
Other symptoms |
Meaning |
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Fever |
Mild fever |
Chills > Fever sweat, headache, bodyache |
Wind Cold |
Severe fever |
Fever > Chills thirst, sweat |
Wind Heat |
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Alter chills n fever |
Bitter taste @ mouth, thirst, full/stuffy chest |
Intermediate syndrome |
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Fever |
+ no chills, aversion to heat, profuse sweat, severe thirst |
Internal excessive heat |
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Tidal fever |
@afternoon/evening |
Yin Xu |
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@afternoon > evening, constipation, abdominal pain |
Yang Ming Fu Syndrome |
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Chills |
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Cold limbs, slow weak pulse |
Internal Cold |
Sweat |
No Sweat |
External Cold invasion |
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Sweat |
Wei Qi Xu invade by Wind. External Heat invasion |
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Night Sweat |
Red Tongue |
Yin Xu + Hyperactive Heat |
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Spontaneous Sweat |
Lassitude |
Qi & Yang Xu |
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Profuse Sweat |
High fever, restlessness, thirst, Full Pulse |
Excessive internal Heat |
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Weak energy, cold limbs, deep thready pulse |
Yang Qi exhaution |