Inspection of Color

Question 1

What does blue green and black indicate

Answer 1

Pain

Question 2

What does yellow and red indicate

Answer 2

heat, but also can indicate wind

Question 3

What does white indicate

Answer 3

cold

Question 4

What does exterme red indicate

Answer 4

pain

Question 5

What does yellow pus indicate

Answer 5

damp heat

Question 6

purple and heat

Answer 6

Heat with stasis

Question 7

green and pus

Answer 7

Liver and GB

Question 8

pale blue

Answer 8

cold

Question 9

pale dusty blue

Answer 9

yang qi def.

Question 10

pale green under eyes

Answer 10

LIV Qi stagnation, or LIV blood def

Question 11

Dark under eyes

Answer 11

LIV stasis

Question 12

Green complexion and red eyes

Answer 12

LIV fire

Question 13

Yellow green cheeks

Answer 13

Phlgem LIV yang rising

Question 14

Green on nose with abdominal pain

Answer 14

LIV Qi stagnation

Question 15

Dark red green

Answer 15

LIV stagnation turned to heat

Question 16

Dark green complexion

Answer 16

Pain

Question 17

Redness

Answer 17

governs heat

Question 18

Mallor flush

Answer 18

Def heat / yin def, night sweats, heat in palms and soles

Question 19

Yellow

Answer 19

damp

Question 20

Smokey yellow

Answer 20

damp heat with damp predominant, damp cold

Question 21

Orange

Answer 21

damp heat with damp predominant

Question 22

Withered dryness yellow

Answer 22

heat in SP & ST

Question 23

sallow yellow

Answer 23

SP ST deficiency, or blood def

Question 24

Dull pale yellow

Answer 24

damp cold

Question 25

White

Answer 25

Deficiency, cold and blood loss

Question 26

Dull white

Answer 26

blood deficiency

Question 27

Blueish White

Answer 27

yang def + cold

Question 28

Bright White

Answer 28

Yang deficiency

Question 29

black governs

Answer 29

cold

Question 30

Face and forhead -

Skin may pit when pressed

Answer 30

indicate KI disease

Question 31

What are the ten methods for viewing color

Answer 31

Floating  and deep: 
Clear and turbid:
Faint and Extreme
scattered and concentrated
sheen or perishing

Question 32

floating color

Answer 32

visible on skin, mild exterior Yang pathology

Question 33

deep color

Answer 33

seem hidden inside the skin - severe - interior and a Yin pathology

Question 34

clear color

Answer 34

Colour distinct Yang condition - Zheng Qi still intact

Question 35

turbid color

Answer 35

Turbid - darkness and turbidity , yin Qi def, Zheng Qi is exhausted

Question 36

faint color

Answer 36

def. condition

Question 37

extreme color

Answer 37

XS

Question 38

scattered color

Answer 38

new disease

Question 39

concentrated color

Answer 39

old pathogen

Question 40

sheen color - moist

Answer 40

better prognosis, shorter treatment

Question 41

perishing or dry or whithered

Answer 41

poor prognosis, longer treatment