Facial pigmentation is a problem that many women suffer from, and many people try various kinds of spot removal products, not knowing that many whitening and spot removal products contain heavy metal ingredients, so we often see the bad situation of “white face, bad kidney” in the clinic. Perhaps many people do not understand that facial pigmentation is actually a barometer of the harmony of our body’s internal environment. As early as in the Inner Classic, there is a discussion: “Twelve meridians, three hundred and sixty-five veins, the blood and gas are on the face and take the empty orifices.” If the five organs are in harmony, the qi and blood are well regulated, and the yin and yang are in harmony, the face will be rosy and lustrous. Therefore, to get rid of pigmentation, we must regulate qi and blood, and harmonize the five organs. Everyone has the desire to be beautiful, but beauty is only true beauty when it comes from within! In clinical practice, I see that many female patients have their own characteristics of pigmentation distribution, which are inextricably linked with the internal environment of the body. Through the internal regulation of Chinese medicine, not only the pigmentation can be eliminated, but also the facial color will be glorious and moist. So, what body secrets can facial pigmentation suggest to us? 1. Insufficient kidney yang or cold condensation in the uterus: A considerable number of women who have given birth and a small number of infertile women have pigmentation spots near the cheek and cheek area unilaterally or twice, while their faces are dark or pale. Many of these women are also accompanied by fear of cold, lack of warmth in the hands and feet, menstrual disorders such as dysmenorrhea, lumpy menstruation, dark color and low volume. Some of them have cold waist, lumbago, frequent urination, and some of them have edema. We call this kind of discoloration “water color”. This is because the cheek is the area dominated by the kidney. Patients with weak endowment, improper maintenance after delivery, or overworking the kidneys can lead to deficiency of kidney yang. When the kidney is deficient in kidney yang or kidney qi, the metabolism of water and fluids will become a problem, and will stop gathering for drinking, while the flow of qi and blood will not be smooth, resulting in blood stasis. In some women, the desire for cold during menstruation or the lack of warmth in winter can lead to cold condensation in the uterus and cold stagnation, which can also cause stagnation of Qi and Blood. For such patients, we use the treatment of warming the kidneys and liver, warming and regulating the qi and blood, and will receive good results. Many patients say to me after a period of treatment, “Dr. Liu, I am not so afraid of cold anymore, I usually have to wear autumn pants in summer, but now I can wear a dress. But I observed that the patient’s intuitive change is that the cheek spots become lighter, and the cheek will be flushed with red color, and after a longer period of conditioning, the small spots will disappear, and the large ones will become lighter, and the patient’s face will become gloriously moist, and isn’t this beauty? 2.Liver qi stagnation: Some other patients have facial pigmentation mostly around the orbital area, accompanied by blue face, or impatient and irritable or depressed, like long out of breath, or chest and epigastric stuffiness, or the valley is not Xin, menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, and these patients are also easy to detain from thyroid disease, uterine fibroids, breast enlargement and other problems. I call such problems “foot syndrome of the liver meridian”. Because the foot Turk Yin liver meridian route for “…… ring Yin ware, against the small abdomen, on the diaphragm, cloth, after following the throat, up into the fly down, even the eye system …..” The liver qi stagnation, on the one hand, will produce blood stasis, blood stasis in the uterus will affect the menstruation, will appear uterine fibroids; on the other hand, will produce phlegm, phlegm qi gum, will appear pharyngeal discomfort such as “plum nuclear gas”, will appear thyroid problems, will appear gynecological swelling. On the other hand, phlegm will produce phlegm and blood, resulting in pharyngeal discomfort such as “plum pits”, thyroid problems and gynecological swelling. If the qi and blood are not smooth, the facial pigmentation will subside. I once had a patient who came to the clinic with severe facial discoloration, and the first thing I saw was the discoloration, then I noticed that she had an enlarged thyroid gland, and when I asked her again, she had breast enlargement and uterine fibroids! And this patient had been anxious and depressed for a long time because of marital problems. At that time, she was given Chai Hu Daxing Liver San combined with Xuan Fu Hua Tang, which worked very well. 3. Spleen deficiency without glory: Some patients have more scattered facial pigmentation, accompanied by atrophy, poor digestion, abdominal distension, and irregular bowel movements. These patients mostly have the problem of spleen qi deficiency. Spleen qi deficiency is caused by insufficient endowment or poor diet that damages the spleen and stomach. The spleen is the organ of the middle earth and is responsible for raising the clear and lowering the turbidity. When the spleen qi is deficient, there is no source of the essence needed by the body, and the qi and blood are insufficient to honor the face, which will also produce discoloration and yellowing of the face. When the Spleen and Stomach are healthy, the Qi and Blood will be harmonized, and the pigmentation will disappear. There was a patient who had a hemorrhage during delivery and had obvious discoloration after delivery. After 3 months, the patient’s complexion was glorious and lustrous, and the discoloration was almost gone, just like a new person.