NCCAOM 4 PILARS OF EVAL
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bwalter3 Plus on November 14, 2010
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4 PILLARS OF EVAL. A 4 STAR TO KNOW FOR TESTS.
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AFEA - Herbs, AFEA -- TCM/non 5E
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lustrous skin color: shiny and moist | healthy |
| skin tones red | excess heat or fire |
| skin tones pallor (white) | cold, pai (caused by deficiency of qi or blood or both) |
| skin tones bright white, puffy | qi deficiency (yang deficiency also) |
| skin tones white - withered, no luster | blood deficiency |
| skin tones withered | vital essence (deficiency) |
| skin waxy, oil coated | excess (condition) |
| skin yellow | dampness (or deficiency) |
| face yellowed | deficient blood |
| face yellowed leaning to bright orange | damp heat (considered a yang type of jaundice, LIV is involved) |
| face yellow, leaning to pale | damp cold (considered yin type of jaundice, Spleen Involved) |
| face looks blue/green | Qing (color of dragon scales: excessive liver disharmony and wind) |
| Face blue/purple | blood stagnation |
| face malar flush (red) | yin deficiency (sheeks red, comes and goes) |
| face dark black | blood congealed (or KD deficient) |
| head not developed | KD Jing deficiency (Like in the ending of Beetlejuice) |
| collapsed fontanelle | deficent condition |
| raised fontanelle | excess condition |
| hair falls out easily | jing deficiency |
| falls out in clumps suddenly | blood deficiency affected by wind |
| hair appearance | KD flowers the hair. This shows condition of blood. |
| ears dry | kd jing is exhausted |
| ears red | heat or wind |
| ears purple | cold (or deficient) |
| ears pus | damp heat in GB |
| ear lobes | jing is strong |
| large ear lobes | you're a hobbit |
| nose | lungs open into th nose, ST and LI |
| nostrils moving | lung heat |
| dry nostrils | heat (or dryness) |
| scorched black | extreme heat |
| red nose | you're a raindeer |
| red nose | heat |
| red and swollen | ST and SP damp, heat or congealed blood (alchol) |
| red, glowing nose | your Rudolf the raindeer |
| nose is white | qi deficient |
| shiny white nose | food stagnation in the intestines |
| eyes bright with sparkling nature | jin is uninjured |
| Eyes | Pure jing QI of all organs pours through the eyes |
| eyes stiff and inflexible | deficient condition or wind |
| eyes red sclera | heat |
| eyes unclear sclera | dampness |
| eyes excess tears | liver fire |
| eyes sand in them w/o being red | damp (or SP Xue) |
| eyes wide pupils | KD yin Xue (VERY SERIOUS CONDITION) |
| eyes fear of bright lights | you're a turtle (sea turtle, coming on shore, in South Florida) |
| eyes fear of bright lights | excess (condition) |
| eyes gray and baggy sockets | KD Qi Xue |
| Protruding eyes | Heat (w/ mucus) |
| Lips pale and white | deficient and cold |
| lips spleen flowers into the lips | lips spleen flowers into the lips |
| lips redder than normal | heat |
| lips dry scorched | heat injuring the fluids |
| lips blue/green (qing) | cold (or pain) |
| lips purple (qing) | cold (cauding congealed blood) |
| lips trembling | wind (or spleen is weak) |
| lips excess salvation | Spleen is weak and damp (or ST deficiency ) |
| lip mouth askew | Wind |
| lips cannot close mouth | great deficiency |
| teeth | ruled by the KD's and is considered excess of bone |
| teeth dry (or gums) | Stomach heat |
| teeth red, swollen, or hot gums | ST fire (or KB Yin Deficiency: with fire rising) |
| teeth look like dry bones | KD yin deficiency (Yuck, dude... or dudette) |
| teeth, grinding them... | heat (especially empty fire) |
| Throat | Door to the lungs |
| throat swollen, red painful | heat in LU or ST |
| Throat swollen, red, painful, ulcerations | extreme heat |
| throat chronic sore throat (NOT red) | KD yin Deficiency (or KD yang deficiency) |
| throat (lump in the throat) | Liver QI stag |
| Skin withered | injured fluids |
| skin swollen or pitting edema | excess fluids |
| rashed (raised) | less serious than flat rashes |
| skin red moist, dark rash | severe illness |
| skin closed edged eruptions | more serious than less clear edged eruptions |
| skin many clustered eruptions | more serious |
| many clusterd eruptions | most serious |
| skin red eruptions | obstructed blood |
| skin red eruptions | heat |
| eruptions with fluid | dampness (or deficiency) |
| skin boills | fire poisoning |
| skin ulcers (not raised) w/o color | deficiency (yin ulcers) |
| Overweight | tends to qi deficiency, excess mucus and damp |
| thin | sallow complexion, narrow chest, dry skin tends toward qi and yin deficiency |
| emaciated | hyperactivity of fire of the deficient type (yin) |
| agitated outward | yang tendencies |
| passive, inward | yin tendencies |
| heavy ponderous | excess tendencies |
| weak, frail movements | deficient tendencies |
| quick movements | tends toward heat patterns |
| slow movements | tends toward cold patterns |
| curls up when lying | cold condition |
| lies stretched out, no coveres | heat condition |
| paralysis of limbs | deficieny of qi and blood |
| convulsions, deviation of eyes and mouth | deficieny of yin and blood (or invasion of pathogenic wind) |
| speech weak or slow | deficiency |
| speech lusty, strong voice | excess |
| speech stuttering | wind phlegm |
| speech muttering | derangement of mind (deficiency) |
| speech delirium | blurring of Heart by phlegm heat (excess) |
| speech groaning, moaning, or outcries | detention, pain, oppressive sensation (KD, water element) |
| speech weeping | involves LU and LI (metal) |
| speech singing | involves SPL and STO (earth) |
| speech laughing | involves the HT and SI (fire) |
| speech shouting | involves the LIV and GB (wood) |
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