Complexion

Question 1

Blue-green complexion indicates:

Answer 1

Wind

Question 2

dark blue-green (black) complexion indicates:

Answer 2

Cold

Question 3

blue-green-purple complexion indicates:

Answer 3

Stasis

Question 4

Sudden appearance of blue-green complexion indicates:

Answer 4

Pain

Question 5

Red over entire face indicates:

Answer 5

excess heat

Question 6

Red cheeks indicate:

Answer 6

deficiency heat (empty heat)

Question 7

Superficial zygomatic flush with pale face beneath indicates:

Answer 7

floating yang
(red/yang separated and floating above white/yin)

Question 8

Bright orange yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 8

jaundice - yang type

damp heat obstructs and steams the bile to the surface

Question 9

Smoky hazy yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 9

jaundice - yin type

damp heat obstructs and steams the bile to the surface

Question 10

Dim luster yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 10

dampness

dampness accumulates, limits SP’s transportation fx, leading to a lack of blood rising to the face, a slightly pale or yellow colour ensues

Question 11

Dull pale yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 11

Cold Damp in Middle Burner

dampness accumulates, limits SP’s transportation fx, leading to a lack of blood rising to the face, a slightly pale or yellow colour ensues

Question 12

Pale yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 12

SP qi deficiency

dampness accumulates, limits SP’s transportation fx, leading to a lack of blood rising to the face, a slightly pale or yellow colour ensues

Question 13

Puffy pale yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 13

SP qi deficiency w/ water accumulation

dampness accumulates, limits SP’s transportation fx, leading to a lack of blood rising to the face, a slightly pale or yellow colour ensues

Question 14

What zang fu organs relate to white/pale?

Answer 14

LU/LI

Question 15

Which organs relate to red?

Answer 15

HT/SI

Question 16

Pale blue-green complexion indicates:

Answer 16

Cold

cold contracts blood vessels

Question 17

Pale white complexion indicates:

Answer 17

Qi Deficiency

qi or blood def. leads to loss of nourishment on face, causes pale colour

Question 18

Bright white complexion indicates:

Answer 18

Yang deficiency

qi or blood def. leads to loss of nourishment on face, causes pale colour

Question 19

Pale white and withered yellow complexion indicates:

Answer 19

Blood deficiency

qi or blood def. leads to loss of nourishment on face, causes pale colour

Question 20

Pale white without sheen indicates:

Answer 20

Bleeding
(losing body fluids)

qi or blood def. leads to loss of nourishment on face, causes pale colour

Question 21

Dark black complexion indicates:

Answer 21

Internal Cold and/or KI-yang deficiency

channels and blood vessels spasm and contract, causing blood to stagnate and thus darken

Question 22

Dry scorched black complexion indicates:

Answer 22

KI-yin deficiency

channels and blood vessels spasm and contract, causing blood to stagnate and thus darken

Question 23

Black eye sockets, swollen lower eyelid indicates:

Answer 23

Phlegm Damp

channels and blood vessels spasm and contract, causing blood to stagnate and thus darken

Question 24

Purple black complexion indicates:

Answer 24

Blood Stasis

channels and blood vessels spasm and contract, causing blood to stagnate and thus darken

Question 25

What are the 4 different qualities of pathological facial colours?

Answer 25

1) Location - deep/floating (internal/external)
2) Brightness - bright, clear/ dull, dim (yang/yin)
3) Thickness - thin, faint/ thick, extreme (deficiency/excess)
4) Concentration - scattered/concentrated (new or mild/ chronic or serious)

Question 26

What does facial sheen indicate? (2)

Answer 26

1) state of essence (full/exhausted)

2) state of spirit (having/ lacking spirit)

Question 27

Which facial colour does this pathogenesis describe: Blood doesn’t fill up the vessels in the face due to onbstruction or contraction of the blood vessels.

Answer 27

Blue-green, LR/GB/Wood pathology

veins rely on contraction (LR) to pump blood

Question 28

What are the 3 aspects/classifications of abnormal facial colour?

Answer 28

1) single colour dominates
2) obvious exposure of colour
3) colour changes are inconsistent with seasonal changes

Question 29

What variables are important for facial diagnosis? (3)

Answer 29

1) Time (early morning best, or once patient is calm)
2) Environment (quiet, w/o stimulation)
3) Light (natural)

Question 30

What does an abnormal facial sheen (ex, withered and dim) indicate?

Answer 30

deficiency or failure of essence qi … (shen)

Question 31

What are the 3 classifications of normal facial skin colour?

Answer 31

1) Host or Governing (zhu) colour - colour from birth
2) Guest or Visitor (ke) colour - seasonal changes
3) Transient Normal Complexion - temporary changes due to activity/environment/emotion/diet/etc

Question 32

What is skin colour associated with? And sheen?

Answer 32

blood and yin ; qi, yang, shen