The face can reflect the physiological information of various parts of the body, making the face a microcosm of the overall integrity. All parts of the face belong to different viscera, which is the basis of face diagnosis. Chen Shiduo, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, once said, "When you see a doctor, you must look at your face, and you must know all parts. 」
"LingShu? Among the five colors, the human face is compared to the court courtyard, with the nose in the middle and the highest position, so it is called "Tang Ming". The rest of the ministries are vividly imagined: the nose is called "Tang Ming", the eyebrows are called "Que", the forehead is called "Pavilion" (Yan), the cheeks are called "Fan", and the auricle is called "Shielding". As "Guan Jing" said: "The first face is in the que, the palace is in the lower pole, the five internal organs are second to the middle, and the six internal organs are on both sides. This is the whole law of facial viscera distribution.
The corresponding relationship between each part of the face and the five internal organs is as follows: the upper part waits for the head, the upper part for the throat, the middle part for the lung (Tang Yin), the lower part for the heart (lower pole), the lower part for the liver (longevity), the left and right parts of the liver for the gallbladder, the lower part for the spleen, the upper part (both sides of the spleen) for the stomach, the central part (under the zygomatic part) for the large intestine and the kidney.
"Su Wen? In the chapter of "Pricking Heat", the related parts of the five internal organs and the face are divided into: the left cheek treats the liver, the right cheek treats the lung, the forehead treats the heart, the chin treats the kidney, and the nose treats the spleen. He also said: "fever begins at the beginning and ends at the end", "liver is hot, and the left cheek is red first; Heart heat, Yan Xianchi; People with spleen heat have a red nose first; In patients with lung heat, the right cheek is red first; People with kidney heat will turn red in the morning. Although this is classified from the perspective of "fever", later doctors have extended it to "home visits" of all diseases.
"Uncle Ling?" "Five Readings and Five Ambassadors" said: "Those who have five senses can also read five organs. The so-called "reading" means being visible outside now. Accordingly, "wheezing and nasal distension" is lung disease, "bruise" is liver disease, "yellow lips" is spleen disease, "short tongue and red cheekbones" is heart disease, and "black cheekbones and cheeks" is nephropathy. The kidney opens to the ear and should be black.
Clinically, this can be used as a supplement to complexion, and diseases of skin, meat, qi, blood, tendons and bones can be diagnosed according to the relationship between five internal organs and five bodies. For example, "Lingshu Wei Qi Chaos" said: "Those with thin eyebrows are sick in the skin; If the lips are blue-yellow, red, white and black, the muscles are sick; Those who are full of qi are sick with blood gas; Those with blue, yellow, red, white and black eyes are sick in tendons; The ear is burnt with dust, and the disease lies in the bone. 」
Note: Huangdi Neijing? Su Wen and Huangdi Neijing? In Lingshu, there are slightly different views on the color division of human viscera in the face, so this book is elaborated separately above. (Continued from the next article)
This article is provided by Human Think Tank Publishing House, and is taken from the book Three Minutes Face-to-Face Diagnosis. The original work is the editorial board of the famous forum of Health China.