Eye, Nose, Ear, Mouth, Teeth, Throat Signs TCM Flashcards
What does it mean when:
The eyes are dull or clouded
mind disturbance, weakened five organs, emotional problem
What does it mean when:
The corner of the eye is red
heart fire
What does it mean when:
The corners of the eye are dull-white
heat
What does it mean when:
The corners of the eye are pale white
blood def
What does it mean when:
The sclera is red
Lung heat
What does it mean when:
The sclera is yellow
damp heat
What does it mean when:
The whole eye is red, painful and swollen
wind heat or Liver fire
What does it mean when:
there is swelling under the eyes
Kidney def
What does it mean when:
Grey and scattered spots, like clouds
injuries causing qi stagnation
What does it mean when:
there are black spots surrounded by a grey cloud like halo
qi and blood injuries
What does it mean when:
there are red veins clearly visible and are spiral shaped
pain
The corner of the eye represents the…
heart
The upper eyelid represents the….
spleen
The lower eyelid represents the…
stomach
The sclera represents the…
lung
The iris represents the…
liver
The pupil represents the…
kidney
When the nose is green or blue at the tip that represents….
abdominal pain from SP cold
When the nose has a yellow tip that represents….
SP damp heat
When the nose has a white tip that represents….
blood def
When the nose has a red tip that represents….
impairment of water movement
When the nose is slightly moist and shiny that represents….
good prognosis
When the nose is dry that represents….
Stomach or large intestine heat
When the nose is dry and black that represents….
toxic heat
When the nose has clear and watery discharge that represents….
cold pattern
When the nose has a thick yellow discharge that represents….
heat pattern
When the nose is flaring at the nostrils with a high fever that represents….
extreme lung heat
When the ears are white that represents….
cold pattern
When the ears are bluish/dark that represents….
pain
When the ears are dry, withered with dark ear lobes that represents….
Kidney qi/yin exhaustion
When the ears are shiny with moist ear lobes that represents….
good prognosis
When the ears are dry with withered ear lobes that represents….
poor prognosis
When the ears are swelling and there is pain in the middle of the ear that represents….
heat in the shao yang channels (triple heater and gallbladder)
When the ears are thin that represents….
qi or blood def
When the ears are long with a full lobe that represents….
a strong constitution
When the ears lobes are small that represents….
poor constitution
When the mouth and lips are pale red, moist and shiny that represents….
normal, good state of spleen
When the mouth and lips are pale that represents….
yang or blood def
When the mouth and lips are red and dry that represents….
stomach/spleen heat
When the mouth and lips are purple/blueish that represents….
blood stasis
When the mouth and lips are slightly open that represents….
an empty pattern
When a person is breathing via the mouth that represents….
lung qi def
When there is a slightly green color around the mouth that represents….
liver blood stasis or qi stagnation
When the teeth and gums are swollen and painful that represents….
stomach heat
When the teeth and gums are swollen but not painful that represents….
stomach empty heat
When the teeth and gums are pale that represents….
blood def
When the teeth and gums are moist that represents….
good kidney health
When the teeth and gums are dry that represents….
kidney yin def
When the teeth and gums are bright and very dry that represents….
heat in the yang ming (stomach and large intestine channels)/febrile disease
When the teeth and gums are dry and grey that represents….
empty heat from kidney yin def
When the pharynx is deep red that represents….
heat (can be either interior or exterior)
When the pharynx/throat is pale red that represents….
empty heat
When the pharynx is red, swollen with acute pain that represents….
invasion of wind heat
When the pharynx is red, swollen with chronic pain that represents….
lung/kidney yin def with empty heat
When the pharynx is red, swollen and eroded that represents….
full heat in stomach and intestines
When the pharynx is swollen, yellow/red and eroded that represents….
toxic heat
When the pharynx is presenting chronic erosion that come and goes that represents….
empty heat
When the pharynx has chronic dryness and erosion with greyish ulcers that represents….
severe yin def
When the pharynx has chronic erosion with raised ulcers that represents….
blood stasis with phlegm heat
When the tonsils are swollen with normal color that represents….
damp/phlegm retention with qi def
When the tonsils are chronically red and swollen that represents….
heat or toxic heat in the stomach/large intestine channels
When the tonsils are acutely red and swollen that represents….
invasion of wind heat w/ accompanying toxic heat
When the tonsils are chronically red and swollen that represents….
chronic heat in stomach/large intestine channels or empty heat in the lung channel
When the tonsils are acutely red, swollen with exudate that represents….
wind heat, complicated by toxic heat in stomach/large intestine channels
When the tonsils are greyish that represents….
acute stage of glandular fever (mononucleosis)
When the limbs are swollen this can indicate…
damp bi damp heat (when joints are red and hot to touch) damp bi with liver blood def
Symptoms of lung yang def edema include…
pitting edema in the hands
Symptoms of kidney yang def edema include…
pitting edema in the feet
Symptoms of spleen yang def edema include…
pitting edema in the four limbs
Symptoms of damp edema include…
edema of the four limbs (can be damp heat or cold)
Symptoms of qi stagnation edema include…
edema of the four limbs, non-pitting
Symptoms of wind-water invading the lung edema include…
acute edema of the hands and face
When the limbs are flaccid this can indicate…
lung heat injuring body fluids
spleen and stomach damp heat
spleen and stomach deficiency
kidney yin deficiency
When the limbs are rigid this can indicate…
invasion of external wind liver yang rising liver wind (elderly) bi syndrome with damp and phlegm (when accompanied by swelling and pain in the joint) phlegm with internal wind in the channels (inability to flex the joints) Blood stasis (rigidity accompanied by pain in joints/muscles that is worse at night) Liver and kidney yin def Spleen and kidney yang def
When the limbs are paralyzed this can indicate…
spleen and stomach def qi and blood def liver and kidney yin def dampness in the muscles blood stasis phlegm and internal wind in the channels
When the limbs are in a state of contraction can indicate…
invasion of wind (acute)
dampness in the muscles
heat injuring the fluids in the muscles
liver blood or yin def
When the hands have tremors, this indicates…
liver wind
When the four limbs in elderly patients have tremors this indicates…
liver wind and phlegm affecting the channels
liver/kidney yin def
When there is a fine tremor in the limbs of women, this indicates…
liver wind deriving from blood def
When there is a mild, fine tremor of the limbs this can indicate…
general qi and blood def
When the limbs are spastic this can be indicative of…
blood level in warm febrile diseases causing yin depletion and leads to liver wind
When the thenar eminence has bluish venules this indicates…
stomach cold
When the thenar eminence has blueish and short venules this indicates…
empty pattern
When the thenar eminence has red venules this indicates…
stomach heat
When the thenar eminence has purple venules this indicates…
stomach blood stasis
Dry skin indicates…
liver blood def
Itchy skin indicates…
wind
Pitting edema indicates…
kidney yang def
Non-pitting edema indicates…
Qi stagnation
Bright yellow skin indicates…
yang jaundice from damp heat
Dull yellow skin indicates…
yin jaundice from cold damp
Red venules in skin indicates…
heat in the blood
Purple venules in the skin indicates…
blood stasis
Green venules in the skin indicate…
pain
Blue venules in the skin indicate…
cold in the blood
Papules (red raised spots) in the skin indicate…
heat in the lung/stomach
Vesicles (yellow/clear raised spots) in the skin indicate…
dampness
Macules (flat discolored area of skin) on the skin indicate…
blood level disharmony (red: blood heat, purple: blood stasis, bluish: blood cold)
