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D&D Correspondences
Macioca FCM Correspondences between various Signs & Sx Complexion/ Color
| Sign of State of Health | Disharmony/ Significance |
|---|---|
| Sinews are weak or stiff (constitutional) | LR in disharmony |
| Blood Vessels are hard or wiry (constitutional) | HT disharmony |
| Muscles are weak or flaccid (constitutional) | SP deficiency |
| Skin is flaccid (constitutional) | LU Qi deficiency |
| Bones are brittle (constitutional) | KD deficiency |
| Barrel chest and barrel epigastrium | ST excess (long-term) |
| Very large upper thighs out of proportion to body | SP deficiency (long-term) |
| Thin emaciated body | Blood deficiency or Yin deficiency (long-term) |
| Overweight body | SP Yang deficiency with Damp and Phlegm (long-term) |
| Excess movement of body or body parts Also rapid or jerky | Yang excess, Full or Hot patterns |
| Lack of movement or slow movement of body or body parts | Yin excess (?), Empty or Cold patterns |
| Moves body quickly and throws covers off at night | Heat excess pattern often from LR or HT disharmony |
| Person moves slow, and like to lie down, and is cold | Yang deficiency or Cold-Deficiency pattern usually from SP or KD issues |
| Small movements of especially legs and continuous fidgeting | Empty KD-Heat |
| Tremors or convulsions | Internal LR-Wind - whole body or just eyelids More severe: Full-Wind [usually] derived from Heat Smaller/ticks: Empty-Wind arising from Blood deficiency and Yin deficiency |
| Paralysis of limb | Internal LR-Wind |
| Stiff or rigid limb | Full pattern of Qi stagnation, Blood stasis or in acute cases External-Wind |
| Health of head hair | KD Jing status |
| Hair falling out | Blood deficiency |
| Premature graying of hair | KD-Jing decline |
| Thickness and Luster of hair | LR status |
| Dull or brittle hair | LR-Blood deficiency |
| Complexion as a whole | state of HT - Mind/Spirit |
| Dull sallow complexion | SP deficiency, Dampness, or possibly Blood deficiency Also, deficiency in Mind/Spirit |
| Luster and moisture of complexion: shines or glows and is moist and firm | Has Spirit |
| Contained or veiled color of complexion, slightly shiny, slightly red, moist and firm | Healthy |
| White complexion | Blood deficiency (dull-white) , Yang deficiency (bright-white) |
| Yellow complexion | SP deficiency, Dampness or both |
| Sallow yellow complexion | ST/SP deficiency or Blood deficiency |
| Bright orange complexion | Damp-Heat with more Heat |
| Hazy/smoky yellow complexion | Damp-Heat with more Damp |
| Withered dried up yellow complexion | ST/SP-Heat |
| Dull pale yellow complexion | Cold-Damp in ST/SP |
| Ash-like yellow complexion | long-term Dampness |
| Pale complexion, face surrounded by red dots | SP deficiency and LR-Blood stasis |
| Clear and moist yellow between eyebrows | ST-Qi recovering after illness of SP/ST |
| Dried up and withered yellow between eyebrows | Poor prognostic sign |
| Red complexion | Heat - Full or Empty |
| Whole face red | Full-Heat |
| Cheekbones are red | Empty-Heat |
| Green complexion | LR pattern, Internal-Cold, pain or Interior-Wind |
| Pale green under eyes | LR-Qi stagnation |
| Greenish cheeks | LR-Qi stagnation, LR-Blood stasis, LR Channel-Cold or LR-Wind |
| Green complexion with red tinge | Shao Yang pattern |
| Green color with red eyes | LR-Fire |
| Yellow-green cheeks | Phlegm w/ LR Yang Rising |
| Green on nose | Qi stagnation w/ abdominal pain |
| Dark red-green complexion | LR-Qi stagnation turning into Heat |
| Pale green under eyes | LR-Blood deficiency |
| Grass-green complexion | LR-Qi collapse |
| Blue complexion | Cold |
| Dark blue under eyes | LR Channel-Cold |
| White-blue complexion | Cold or Chronic pain |
| Dull-blue complexion | Severe HT-Yang deficiency w/ Blood stasis or Chronic pain |
| Blueish complexion in children | LR-Wind |
| Black (grayish or very dark) | Cold, pain, KD disease, KD-Yin deficiency |
| Black and moist complexion | Cold |
| Dried up, burned looking complexion | Heat, Empty-Heat from KD-Yin deficiency |
| Floating complexion | Exterior syndrome, mild, Yang |
| Deep complexion | Internal syndrome, severe, Yin |
| Distinct complexion | Yang w/ Upright Qi intact |
| Obscure complexion | Yin w/ Upright Qi exhausted |
| Thin complexion | Deficiency |
| Thick complexion | Full condition |
| Moist complexion | Good prognosis |
| Dry complexion | Poor prognosis |
| Red cheeks | Heat in LU |
| Short earlobes (constitutional) | Weak KD and short Lifespan |
| Blueish forehead in child | Prenatal shock |
| Clear eyes w/ lustre | Healthy |
| Dull and clouded eyes | disturbed Shen and or weak ZF Essence - long-term deep emotional issues |
| Sign at corners of eyes | HT |
| Sign at upper eyelid | SP or YM channels |
| Sign at lower eyelid | ST |
| Sign in sclera of eye | LU |
| Sign in iris of eye | LR |
| Sign in pupil of eye | KD |
| Red in the corners of the eyes | HT-Fire |
| Red in the sclera | LU-H |
| Yellow sclera | Damp-Heat |
| whole eye red and painful and swollen | Wind-Heat (EPF) or LR-Fire blazing up |
| Dull-white corners of the eyes | Heat |
| Pale-white corners of the eyes | Blood deficiency |
| Swelling under the eyes | KD deficiency |
| Sclera of the eyes additional | injuries of back and chest i.e. internal hematomas |
| Green, blue, pruple, or red spots at the ends of the red veins in eyes w/ purple Blood spots ON them | Lesions w/ back or chest Spots not directly connx w/ veins have no diagnostic significance |
| Gray and scattered spots like clouds in eyes | Qi injuries, Qi stagnation w/o organic lesion |
| Deep black spots like sesame seeds in eyes | Blood injuries or Blood stasis |
| Black surrounded by a halo of gray in eyes | Qi and Blood injuries |
| Red veins clearly visible and spiral shaped in the eyes | Pain |
| Bridge of the nose | LR |
| Green bridge of nose | LR-Qi stagnation |
| Gray/dark bridge of nose | LR-Blood stasis |
| Red bridge of nose | LR-Fire |
| Tip of nose | SP |
| White tip of nose | Blood deficiency |
| Red tip of nose | LU-Heat and SP-Heat |
| Gray tip of nose | impaired movement of H2O |
| Nose is slightly moist and shiny | not serious issue |
| Nose is dry | ST-Heat or LI-Heat |
| Dry and black nose | Toxic-Heat |
| Clear and watery discharge coming from nose | Cold patterns |
| White thick yellow discharge coming from nose | Heat |
| Flaring nostrils w/ high FV | Extreme LU-Heat |
| Health of ears | KD Health |
| White ears | Cold patterns |
| Blue/Black ears | Pain |
| Dry, withered, black earlobes | Extreme exhaustion of KD-Qi |
| Shiny earlobes and moist | Good prognosis |
| Dry and withered earlobes | Bad prognosis |
| Swollen and painful ear/ mid-ear | Heat in Shao Yang channels |
| Swollen ear | Pathogenic Factor present, Full condition |
| White thin ear | Qi or Blood deficiency |
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