Identifying a person’s appearance is one method of an herbalist’s diagnosis. Chinese herbalist believe lips tell a story of one’s health information. Although it is a secondary piece of information, it is a useful guideline to know more about ourselves so we can subdue a problem before a doctor is needed. The following is a list of of common indications associated with abnormal lip appearances:
Upward the lip is shriveled with color dark reddens – showing a large intestine pathological changes, may have tight shoulder. Also, symptoms such as bad breath, mouthful rash , and rough throat or the ear and nose are blocked up.
The upper lip is pale with little greenish color – showing the large intestine is weak and cold, symptoms such as the has loose bowels, gas , stomach angina, shivers all over between cold and heat.
The deep red appears at the lower lip – showing the stomach is hot, stomachache, heavy body, hiccups and abdominal fullness.
Pale color appears at the lower lip – showing the stomach is cold, symptoms such as can appear the to vomit and diarrhea, stomach.
The purple deep red inside the lip – may show irascible temper, pain on the rip reign, loose appetite.
Yellow color appears at inside the lip – having a hepatitis sign, as if dim and muddy, the gall balder is certainly not so good
Lip color is red as fire with feverish symptoms – the internal heat is prosperous, and the respiratory tract may have inflammation.
Lip color dark black and muddy – the digestive system lost its imbalance, sometimes it is a sign of constipation, diarrhea, headache , insomnia and having no appetite.
Lip have a visible white color – it is a characteristic of blood deficiency, poor blood circulation, may feel cool or hands and foot turns blue in winter.
Two lips becomes yellowish dry – the spleen’s secretion stagnated, reduced function of immunity system , and receives infection easily
The lip is in purple color – this is the sign that the organism is short of oxygen or drug poisoning. It is usually accompanied with light greenish blue complexion, and chest has thorny ache, and short of breath with flustered feelings.
The lip chap is a mouthful lip has appeared the crack or splits the ditch – riboflavin ( vitamin B2 ) is short of and it is the Chinese herbalist saying “deficiency of yin fire”, or meaning that it is the time your system need a tone up!
As mentioned earlier, lip color tells a story, but it can not be a primary diagnosis method. It should be combined with pulse reading to determine the true story of your body system.
