Pathology Face Colors Flashcards
Dried-Up and withered looking yellow color in between the eyebrows
poor prognostic sign
Black and Dried-up, burned looking
Heat
Red Cheebones (malar Flush) plus tidal fever, night sweating
Deficiency Heat
Blue-Purplish face & lips and intermittent pain in precordial region
HT Blood Stasis
Green Complexion with Red Eyes
LV Fire
Entire Body (Yang Type: orange, Yin Type: smokey dark)
Jaundice
Dark-reddish-green complexion
LV Qi Stagnation turning into heat
Ash-like yellow
Long-standing Damp
White-Bluish (pale and blue tinge)
Excess Cold or Chronic Pain
Dull-Pale Yellow
Cold-Damp in ST/SP
Black and Moist
Cold
Green Face
LV Patterns, Interior Cold, Pain or LV Wind
Smoky, Dull Yellow
Damp-Heat (with prevalence of Damp)
Green Color on the Nose
Qi Stagnation with abdominal Pain
Clear and moist yellow color in between the eyebrows
ST Qi Recovering after illness
Bright White (puffy bloated appearance)
Yang Deficiency
Blue-Purplish face and lips and high fever and violent movement of limbs
LV Wind (infantile convulsion)
Dark Complexion without brightness and scaly skin
Blood stasis (prolonged)
Dark and pale, lumbago, cold feet
KD Deficiency
Dull White (withered)
Blood Deficiency
Black
Cold, Pain, or KD Disease (esp. KD Yin Def)
Whole Red Face
Excess Heat
Dull-Bluish
Severe HT Yang Def.
Sallow Yellow (pale-yellow without brightness)
SP/ST Deficiency or Blood Deficiency
Bluish White
Excessive Cold
