TCM Body Identification and Poultices

1.Peaceful quality ① physical characteristics: body shape proportional and robust. ②Common manifestations: moist face and complexion, dense and lustrous hair, lustrous gaze, bright nose, good sense of smell, harmonious mouth, red lips, not easily fatigued, energetic, tolerant of heat and cold, good sleep, good appetite, normal stool, light red tongue, thin white moss, harmonious pulse. ③Psychological characteristics: easy-going and cheerful personality. ④Predisposition to morbidity: less frequent illnesses in general. ⑤ Adaptability to the external environment: strong adaptability to the natural and social environment. 2.Qi deficiency ①Physical characteristics: muscles are not strong. ②Common manifestations: main item: plainly low voice, short of breath and lazy speech, easy to fatigue, mental discomfort, easy to sweat, light red tongue, fat tongue, side teeth marks, weak and slow pulse. Para: yellowish face or white light white, eyes less bright, lips less flashy, hair not flashy, dizziness, forgetfulness, normal stool, or constipation but not hard, or unformed stool, normal or excessive urine. ③Psychological characteristics: introversion, emotional instability, timidity and dislike of adventure. ④Pathogenic tendency: weak constitution and susceptibility to colds; or weak resistance to illness and susceptibility to prolonged illness; susceptibility to visceral prolapse and deficiency labor. ⑤ adaptability to the external environment: intolerant to cold, wind and summer evil medicine: it is advisable to sweet and warm to nourish the qi to ginseng, yam, astragalus, Rhodiola Rosea, etc. 3, Yang deficiency quality ① physical characteristics: most of the body is white and fat, muscle is not strong. ②Common manifestations: main item: usually afraid of cold, the hands and feet are not warm, like hot food, mental discomfort, sleep more, light fat tongue with teeth marks, moss moist, pulse sunken and weak. Para: white face, obscure eyes, pale lips and mouth, easy to sweat, loose stools, clear and long urine. ③Psychological characteristics: character is mostly sedate and introverted. ④Pathogenic tendency: the pathogenesis is mostly cold evidence, or easily transformed from cold, prone to phlegm, swelling, diarrhea, impotence. ⑤ Adaptability to external environment: intolerant to cold, summer but not winter; susceptible to dampness. Medication: it is advisable to nourish Yang to dispel cold, warm the liver and kidneys to deer antler, mealybug, bacopa monniera, Xian Ling spleen, Xian Mao, Cistanches, bone marrow, cinnamon sticks, sapodilla, etc. 4, Yin deficiency quality ① physical characteristics: long and thin body shape. ② common manifestations: main item: heat in the heart of the hands and feet, easy to dry mouth and throat, slightly dry nose, thirsty for cold drinks, dry stools, red tongue with little fluid and less coating. Secondary: flushed face with a feeling of heat, dry eyes, red lips, dry skin, wrinkles, dizziness, tinnitus, poor sleep, short urine, thin string or number of pulse. ③Psychological characteristics: impatient, outgoing and lively. ④Pathogenic tendency: susceptible to Yin deficiency and dry heat lesions, or susceptible to Yin deficiency symptoms after illness. ⑤ Adaptability to external environment: plainly not resistant to heat evil, winter but not summer; not resistant to dry evil. Medicine: it is advisable to nourish Yin and clear heat, nourish the liver and kidneys to chasteberry, dogwood, Wu Wei Zi, dry lotus grass, asparagus, yellow essence, yu zhu, wolfberry, etc. 5, phlegm damp quality ① physical characteristics: body shape obese, abdominal fat and flabby. ② common manifestations: main item: facial skin greasy, sweaty and sticky, chest tightness, phlegm. Para: yellowish and dark face, slightly floating eye cells, easily sleepy, fat tongue, white greasy moss, sticky or sweet mouth, heavy body, slippery pulse, like to eat fat, sweet and sticky, normal or insubstantial stool, little or slightly mixed urine. ③Psychological characteristics: character is mild, stable, modest, and patient. ④Pathogenic tendency: prone to thirst, stroke, chest paralysis and other diseases. ⑤ Adaptability to external environment: poor adaptability to wet environment. Medication: it is advisable to warm and dry dampness (focus on tonifying the lungs, spleen and kidneys) to the half summer, poria, zedoary, atractylodes, psyllium, etc. 6, damp-heat quality ① physical characteristics: the body is fat or pale thin. ② common manifestations: the main item: plain face dirt and oil, acne, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, easy to mouth bitter and dry, body heavy and sleepy. Secondary: disturbed and slack, dry stools or sticky, short and red urine, damp scrotum for men, increased frequency of hypochondriacal discharge for women, slippery pulse. ③Psychological characteristics: impatient and irritable personality. ④Pathogenic tendency: prone to sores and boils, jaundice, fire and heat, etc. ⑤ Adaptability to the external environment: it is difficult to adapt to the wet environment or high temperature, especially in late summer and early autumn, when the climate is hot and humid. The medicine: it is advisable to be sweet, light, bitter and cold, to clear heat and dampness to Scutellaria baicalensis, Huang Lian, Huang Bai, Gentiana, Tiger Balm, Gardenia, Yin Chen, etc. 7, blood stasis ① physical characteristics: thin people mostly. ②Common manifestations: main item: dull face, dark skin or hyperpigmentation, prone to pain, dull or purple lips, dark tongue with petechiae and stasis, varicose veins under the tongue, thin and astringent pulse or knotted generation. Side effects: dark eyes, dark stagnant nose, easy hair loss, dry skin, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, amenorrhea, purple and black menstruation, blood clots, leakage, or bleeding tendency in women. ③Psychological characteristics: characterized by irritable mood, impatience and forgetfulness. ④Pathogenic tendency: prone to bleeding, Y obstruction, stroke, chest paralysis and other diseases. ⑤ Adaptability to external environment: intolerant to wind and cold evil. Medicine: It is advisable to invigorate blood and nourish blood to Dan Shen, Chuan Xiong, Angelica, Niubizi, Paeonia, Chicken Blood Vine, Yi Mu Cao, Di Long, etc. 8. ②Common manifestations: main item: introversion and instability, depression, sensitivity and suspiciousness, poor adaptability to mental stimuli, and a bored and unhappy look. Sub-items: fullness in the chest, or painful movement, good at breathing, or belching, or a foreign body feeling between the throat, or breast pain, poor sleep, loss of appetite, palpitations, forgetfulness, phlegm, dry stools, normal urine, light red tongue, thin white coating, thin pulse. ③Psychological features: introverted and unstable personality, depression, sensitivity and suspiciousness. ④Pathogenic tendency: susceptible to depression, dirty dryness, lily disease, sleeplessness, plum nuclear gas, panic and other pathologies. ⑤ Adaptability to external environment: poor adaptability to mental stimulation; dislike of rainy weather. Medication: It is advisable to dredge the liver and regulate the qi, to relieve depression and tranquilize the mind to the aromatic herb, Yujin, Buddha’s hand, green Chenpi, neem, Acacia bark, sour date palm, Chaihu, rose hips, etc. 9, ectoplasm ① physical characteristics: no special, or deformities, congenital physical defects. ②Common manifestations: hereditary diseases with congenital and familial characteristics; fetal transmissible diseases for maternal influence on individual fetal growth and development and related disease characteristics. ③Psychological characteristics: vary according to the endowment specific situation. ④Pathogenic tendency: allergic individuals are prone to drug allergy and hay fever; genetic diseases such as hemophilia, congenital stupidity and what Chinese medicine calls “five delays”, “five softnesses” and “uncranial”. ⑤ Adaptability to the external environment: poor adaptability, such as poor adaptability to allergic seasons in allergic individuals, prone to persistent illness. Medication: It is advisable to add or subtract according to different situations, but such physique should be cautious with worm medicine.