The face of normal people in China is yellowish, slightly red and slightly shiny, which is called "normal color" by Chinese medicine. When you are sick, your complexion will change, which is called "sick color". China thinks that five colors are the main diseases, that is, "cyan is mostly liver disease, red is mostly heart disease, yellow is mostly spleen disease, white is mostly lung disease, and black is mostly kidney disease". This sentence reveals some internal relations between skin color and health. Look at the color, pay attention to two aspects: "color" and "luster". Generally speaking, no matter what color, such as bright and moist, indicates that the lesion is light and shallow, and the qi and blood are not aging, such as dim and withered, indicating that the condition is serious and the essence is seriously damaged. Here is a brief introduction to morbid complexion:1; Red face: mostly fever. Patients with hypertension are flushed. Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis have flushed cheeks due to a low fever, especially in the afternoon. Symmetrical butterfly erythema appeared on both cheeks in patients with lupus erythematosus. Red can be seen on cheeks and gills. This is a heart attack. When gas poisoning, the face will also glow with cherry red. If the face is red, accompanied by thirst or even convulsions, it is common in patients with high fever caused by acute infection. 2. Yellow-faced woman: It is necessary to distinguish between yellow-faced woman caused by disease and yellow-faced woman caused by eating. If you eat too many carrots or children eat oranges, your nose will turn yellow and disappear after stopping eating. Jaundice is the most common disease if it doesn't turn yellow. Such as yellow sclera and whole body, more common in jaundice hepatitis, gallstones, cholecystitis, gallbladder cancer, pancreatic head cancer. Due to long-term chronic blood loss, patients with hookworm disease have yellow complexion, commonly known as "jaundice". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yellow is bright and wet, while yellow is dark and mostly cold and wet, with sallow complexion, mostly due to weakness of heart and spleen and deficiency of qi and blood, and yellow swelling of the face is spleen deficiency and dampness. In addition, there are malaria and drug poisoning. This also leads to yellowing. 3. White face: Healthy people's faces are white and red, and people who often stay at home and don't go out are also white, but morbidly white as wax. For example, we can often see that patients with deficiency-cold syndrome, anemia and some lung diseases, severe abdominal pain caused by internal cold, or severe chills caused by external cold can all see pale faces. White liver disease is difficult to treat. Seeing white between the eyebrows is lung disease. Patients with hypothyroidism and chronic nephritis are paler than normal people. When lead poisoning occurs, the patient's face turns pale, which is called "lead capacity" in medicine. Patients with parasites, leukemia, long-term indoor work and malnutrition also see this color. Intestinal parasitic disease with white spots or white spots on the face. In addition, hemorrhagic diseases, frequent hemorrhoids bleeding and menorrhagia in women can also lead to pallor. Shock patients will turn pale because of the blocked facial blood circulation. Chinese medicine believes that pallor belongs to deficiency syndrome and cold syndrome. For example, some people are pale and obese, and Chinese medicine calls these people qi deficiency or yang deficiency. Although these people are fat, they are in poor health and easy to catch a cold. 4. Blue face: Generally speaking, blue face is caused by lack of oxygen. No matter what causes suffocation, cyanosis will occur in congenital heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, heart failure and other diseases. Spastic pain in the stomach or intestines, insect pain, biliary colic caused by biliary tract diseases, etc. will make your face blue. Patients with advanced tuberculosis, emphysema, chronic bronchitis and severe pneumonia are livid. Children with high fever have cyanosis on their faces, especially between the nose post and eyebrows, which is a sign that they will be frightened. In addition, when you endure some severe pain, your face can also show a touch of sadness. 5. Black face: a sign of chronic disease. Patients with adrenal cortical hypofunction, chronic renal insufficiency, chronic cardiopulmonary insufficiency, liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and other diseases may have a black face. The more serious the illness, the stronger the color. There is an old saying: "If you go out of the palace, you will die of illness as big as your thumb." . "Court" is located in the highest position on the face, that is, the forehead, where black appears, which is a signal of critical illness, and patients often die of failure. Take certain drugs for a long time, such as arsenic and anticancer drugs. , can also cause varying degrees of blackening, but once stopped, it can return to normal. Chinese medicine believes that dull complexion is a loss of kidney essence and can be treated with drugs for tonifying kidney. Looking at the complexion, we should distinguish between the guest color and the sick color in the normal color. Guest color refers to the temporary color change of a healthy person's face due to seasonal and climatic changes, or due to drinking, labor, emotional changes, sun exposure, etc. And it's not pathological color, so we should distinguish it when we look at the color. Such as strenuous exercise, drinking, sun exposure, emotional excitement (shyness or anger), etc., will cause short-lived facial flushing, and cold, panic and other stimuli will cause severe contraction of capillaries, which can make the face pale. There are many scattered fatty brown spots on the face of the elderly, which are called "senile pigment spots". During pregnancy, women will have brown symmetrical plaques on their faces, which are called "pregnancy spots". These are normal physiological phenomena.
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