Inspection of Color Flashcards
What does blue green and black indicate
Pain
What does yellow and red indicate
heat, but also can indicate wind
What does white indicate
cold
What does exterme red indicate
pain
What does yellow pus indicate
damp heat
purple and heat
Heat with stasis
green and pus
Liver and GB
pale blue
cold
pale dusty blue
yang qi def.
pale green under eyes
LIV Qi stagnation, or LIV blood def
Dark under eyes
LIV stasis
Green complexion and red eyes
LIV fire
Yellow green cheeks
Phlgem LIV yang rising
Green on nose with abdominal pain
LIV Qi stagnation
Dark red green
LIV stagnation turned to heat
Dark green complexion
Pain
Redness
governs heat
Mallor flush
Def heat / yin def, night sweats, heat in palms and soles
Yellow
damp
Smokey yellow
damp heat with damp predominant, damp cold
Orange
damp heat with damp predominant
Withered dryness yellow
heat in SP & ST
sallow yellow
SP ST deficiency, or blood def
Dull pale yellow
damp cold
White
Deficiency, cold and blood loss
Dull white
blood deficiency
Blueish White
yang def + cold
Bright White
Yang deficiency
black governs
cold
Face and forhead -
Skin may pit when pressed
indicate KI disease
What are the ten methods for viewing color
Floating and deep: Clear and turbid: Faint and Extreme scattered and concentrated sheen or perishing
floating color
visible on skin, mild exterior Yang pathology
deep color
seem hidden inside the skin - severe - interior and a Yin pathology
clear color
Colour distinct Yang condition - Zheng Qi still intact
turbid color
Turbid - darkness and turbidity , yin Qi def, Zheng Qi is exhausted
faint color
def. condition
extreme color
XS
scattered color
new disease
concentrated color
old pathogen
sheen color - moist
better prognosis, shorter treatment
perishing or dry or whithered
poor prognosis, longer treatment
