How to treat diseases from an external perspective

Motherland medicine believes that "there must be external causes for internal causes". The pathological changes of the body will inevitably be reflected on the body surface, and complexion is one of such body surface reflections. The face of normal people in China is yellowish, slightly ruddy and slightly shiny, which is called "normal color" by Chinese medicine. When you are sick, your complexion will change, which is called "sick color".

Chinese medicine believes 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 "color" and "luster". Generally speaking, no matter what color, such as bright and moist, it means that the lesion is light and shallow, and the qi and blood are not aging; If it is dark and dry, it means that the condition is serious and the essence is greatly injured.

Red face is mostly heat syndrome. Some hypertensive patients have "blushing" due to facial telangiectasia. Because of low fever, the face of tuberculosis patients will be red, especially in the afternoon. Symmetrical pinch erythema appeared on both cheeks in patients with lupus erythematosus. Red cheeks (cheeks and cheeks) is a heart disease. When gas poisoning occurs, the face also glows cherry red, such as blushing, accompanied by thirst and even convulsions, which is common in patients with high fever caused by acute infection.

Yellowing should be distinguished from yellowing caused by illness or diet. Carotene is yellow. Many fresh fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, pumpkins, spinach, papaya and so on. High carotene content. Eating too much, especially hypothyroidism or liver dysfunction, will hinder the process of transforming absorbed carotene into vitamin A in the liver, which will lead to yellowing near the nose and will soon disappear after stopping eating. Jaundice is the most common disease if it doesn't turn yellow. Yellowing of sclera and whole body is more common in jaundice hepatitis, gallstones, cholecystitis, gallbladder cancer and pancreatic head cancer. Due to long-term chronic blood loss, patients with hookworm disease have a sticky yellow face, commonly known as "yellow fat disease".

Chinese medicine believes that yellow, as bright as orange, belongs to damp heat and is called "yang yellow"; Yellow, as black as smoke, belongs to cold and dampness, and is called "Yin Huang"; Pale face, mostly due to weakness of heart and spleen, insufficient blood supply, spleen deficiency and dampness, yellow and swollen face. In addition, there are malaria, drug poisoning (such as taking a lot of adipine) and so on. It can also lead to yellowing.

White-faced 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, it can often be seen in clinic that patients with deficiency-cold syndrome, anemia and some lung diseases have severe abdominal pain caused by internal cold or severe chills caused by external cold, showing pale complexion and liver disease is refractory.

Seeing white between the eyebrows means that the lungs are sick; 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 parasitic diseases, 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 also turn pale because of blocked facial blood circulation. Chinese medicine follows the trend, and pallor belongs to deficiency-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.

Blue face Generally speaking, blue face is caused by lack of oxygen. No matter what causes suffocation, congenital heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, heart failure and other diseases, you can have a blue face. Spastic pain in the stomach or intestine, insect pain, biliary colic caused by biliary tract diseases, etc. will also 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 nose posts 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.

Black is a sign of chronic diseases. Patients with adrenal cortical hypofunction, chronic renal insufficiency, chronic cardiopulmonary insufficiency, liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and other diseases may have a dull complexion. 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." . The "court" is 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. Long-term use of certain drugs, such as arsenic and anticancer drugs, can also cause varying degrees of blackening, but once the drug is 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.

Knowing by sight, knowing by smell, knowing by holiness, knowing by asking, knowing by skill and knowing by cutting, is a coincidence. It is not uncommon to find diseases by visual inspection. It's just that people nowadays rely too much on instrument testing and have doubts about many things, so don't be surprised. The four consultations do not exist in isolation. We must look at them together. The so-called "seeing with eyes and listening with ears"