|
Colors |
Five elements |
Five Zang organs |
Diseases indicated by the five colors |
Characteristics |
|
Bluish color |
Wood |
Liver |
Indicating convulsive syndrome: liver pertains to
wind, failure of the liver to dredge and regulate will affect qi and
blood circulation. |
Bluish complexion |
|
Indicating
pain syndrome: qi and blood stagnation in meridians and vessels
result in pain. |
Paroxysmal complexion |
|
Indicating cold syndrome : cold factors causes
contraction and stagnation, leading to spasm of meridians and
vessels and blood stagnation. |
Bluish and blackish
complexion
|
|
Indicating Blood stasis syndrome: blood stasis
blocks meridians and vessels. |
Bluish and purplish complexion |
|
Red color |
Fire |
Heart |
Indicating
heat syndrome: Asthenia or sthenia heat syndrome: blood flows fast
in the meridians and vessels with heat. |
Flushed face |
|
Flushed and delicate cheeks |
|
Indicating heat syndrome: Floating yang syndrome
:pale complexion with occasional migratory reddish luster indicates
real cold and false heat syndrome, predominant yin rejecting yang. |
Occasional migratory
reddish luster like makeup |
|
Yellow color |
Earth |
Spleen |
Indicating dampness
syndrome: Internal accumulation of dampness blocks the qi and blood
circulation. |
Yellowish complexion
like with dirtiness |
|
Yang jaundice |
Yellow as tangerine
peel |
|
Yin jaundice |
Yellow as fumigated |
|
Indicating asthenia of the spleen |
Yellow as fumigate |
|
Insufficiency of qi and
blood resulting
from failure of the
spleen to transport. |
Light yellow, dry and
lusterless complexion |
|
Internal accumulation
of dampness blocks qi and blood. |
Yellowish obesity |
|
White color |
Medal |
Lung |
Yangqi insufficiency: failure to transport blood. |
Floating whitish
complexion
Light whitish
complexion |
|
Blood
insufficiency: Asthenia of qi and blood due to failure to nourish
the face. |
Light whitish
complexion and emaciation |
|
Blood
collapse: Blood consumption and vessel is hollow. |
Light whitish,
lusterless complexion |
|
Blackish color |
Water |
Kidney |
Indicating cold syndrome: Blood can’t be warmed, which causes blood
stasis. |
Blackish with squamous
and dry complexion
Blackish and dry
complexion |
|
Indicating kidney asthenia syndrome
1.
Asthenia of kidney
yang, blood can’t be warmed, which due to blood stasis
2.
Asthenia of kidney yin,
asthenic fire consumes kidney yin. |
|
Indicating fluid
retention syndrome:
Fluid retention is due
to kidney asthenia, which cause qi and blood stasis. |
Blackish color of the
area around the eye socket |
|
Indication blood stasis
:
Blood stasis blocks
meridians and vessels. |
Blackish and Purplish
color |
