The five elements and five colors, green, red, yellow and white, black and green again, like a ring of constant virtue. [Translation Note] This section focuses on the color diagnosis in inspection, and uses the Five Elements Theory to explain it.
The main principle of five-color diagnosis in inspection is to use the Five Elements theory to explain the five internal organs and the five colors, and to distinguish the normal functions and abnormal lesions of the five internal organs from the reflection of the five internal organs, mainly on the face.
The five elements are wood, fire, earth, whole, and water. The Five Elements Theory is a theory summarized by ancient people through long-term observation of changes in nature. The ancients believed that all things in nature are closely connected and influenced, so they used the mutual support and mutual restriction of the five common specific substances: wood, fire, earth, earth, and water as a reasoning tool to form the Five Elements Theory. Traditional Chinese medicine is used to understand and summarize all physiological phenomena and pathological changes of the human body, as well as the complex relationship between the human body and the external environment. According to the five colors of green, red, yellow, white, and black on the patient's face, the internal lesions of the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, etc. can be detected; based on the relationship between the five stomachs and the five elements and five colors, the disease can be detected according to The mutual generation and mutual restraint of the five elements can help us understand the relationship between the diseases of the internal organs. Not only that, but it can also be related to the five seasons, five meridians and other conditions, and then explore the complex changes (Table 1).
Change of color, great safety, life and defeat. Green and red combine, red and yellow combine into one, yellow and light yellow, black, green and deep blue, white, black and light black; white, green and light green, red and white turn into red, blue and yellow turn into green, black, red and purple become, black and yellow are succulent.
[Translation Note] The previous section mentioned that the five internal organs of the human body transform into five colors, which is based on the Five Elements theory. For example, green is the color of liver wood, red is the color of heart fire, yellow is the color of spleen earth, white is the color of lung metal, and black is the color of kidney water. These are all transformed by the five elements. The normal color is also the correct color of the correct disease. For the expression of the five colors, it is better to be bright, light, glossy, and contained (that is, not exposed); it is not good to be dark, dull, tangled, and exposed. The moistness and dryness of the colors indicate the decline of stomach qi, which is the key to distinguishing the good and evil of the five colors.
Although the five internal organs have positive colors, when you are sick, the disease color and the internal color are different in opposite directions, which is discoloration. The color change is the direct and reverse direction of the five colors. The color changes that are in harmony with each other are called forward colors, and the color changes that are in conflict with each other are called reverse colors. There are originally countless combinations of the five colors, but the general outline of the color changes can be listed as follows: Table 2 of the five mutually reinforcing colors and the five mutually antagonistic colors as follows:
Table 2 Mutual generation and color change (The disease belongs to Shun)
Hehua (assimilation)
Discoloration
Green (wood)
Red (fire)
Red and green
Red (fire)
Yellow (earth)
Red and yellow
Yellow ( Earth)
White (gold)
Yellow and white (light yellow color)
White (gold)
Black (water)
Black and white (light black color)
Black (water)
Green (wood)
Black and green (Dark blue color)
Color discoloration (disease is inverse)
Combined change
Discoloration
White (gold)
p>Green (wood)
Green and white (light green color)
Red (fire)
White (gold)
White, red and red
Green (wood)
Yellow (earth)
Blue and yellow, green
Black (water)
Red (fire)
Black and red purple
Yellow (earth)
Black Water However, there are also small adverse events and great favorable conditions among auspicious events, and there are also favorable conditions and adverse conditions among evil events. All of them are measured according to the rules of the five elements, which are the principles of five-color diagnosis in ancient times.
During clinical diagnosis, based on this change of life, restraint, success and reversal, the main diseases and concurrent diseases of the five internal organs can be inferred, and the good and evil changes of the disease can also be roughly measured. For example: if you see cyan in liver disease, it is a corresponding color, which is a normal phenomenon of the disease. If you see black or red (in addition to the main disease of the liver, there may be concurrent diseases of the kidney or heart), it is a complementary color among the non-corresponding colors, and it is a compliant syndrome. Generally, the symptoms are auspicious. If you see yellow or white (in addition to the main disease of the liver, there may be concurrent diseases of the spleen or lungs), it is an inconsistent color, which is an adverse syndrome, and the general condition is fierce. The rest of the internal organs can be deduced in the same way. However, in actual clinical application, this method of inferring that the main disease and the disease are combined with symptoms, is just a reference among the four diagnostic methods, and cannot be relied solely on looking at the color alone, otherwise it will lead to a one-sided conclusion. diagnosis.