Traditional Chinese Medicine: Diagnostic Colors

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In traditional Chinese medicine diagnostics, we often times look at the patient to see what kind of colors they're reflecting. And that may seem odd. But we look at things like if their face is very pale, it?s going to tell us that they're blood deficient. Other people may show a very red face that tells us they have a lot of heat, we need to cool them off. But then there is some more subtle things that we may look at. Like exactly how much redness there is. So if your whole face is red, we're going to say that you have excessive heat and too much. But if you just have a flush here, which we call a mallor flush, we may say that you have yin deficiency. We often times see that with menopause. And so we'll have a completely different treatment based on where those colors show up. Then there's some other interesting things that happen with the colors. We might see in the ear, what we call the triangular fossa, right here in the corner of the ear. If that's very dark, often times a woman is menstruated. The darker it is, the more likely they are to have painful menses. Then there's things like the tongue when we look at that depending on whether its pale or red or even sometimes purple will tell us the level of pain or the deficiency or excess. So something that can be helpful to your practitioner before you go in to see them is try not to wear makeup or very minimal makeup so they can see the true colors of your face. If you can, don't put any fingernail polish on your fingernails because often times they may look at your nails and that will give them some insight as well. So ask your practitioner lots of questions so you can understand the kinds of interesting things that they're trying to see to better help you get a good diagnosis.

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