04/12/2020
🤩 Face Map in Chinese Medicine! 🤩
There many renditions to face mapping in TCM! The most common ones are from the 2 classics “Spiritual Axis” and “Simple Questions”.
I am sharing the one that I have found very useful over the years in my practice. Like the ear, the tongue, the belly, and the limbs, the face is a microsystem which reflects what’s going on internally in the body.
- The Heart areas: wrinkles or redness in these are may indicate high blood pressure.
- The Liver area is located at Yin Tang for a good reason! Stress, irritability and anger will cause Yin Tang to b overloaded with years of frowning, causing wrinkles there.
- The Kidneys health reflect under the eyes. Dark circles may indicate lack of sleep for years depleting the adrenals and causing the TCM KD to age faster!
- The Spleen shows imbalances on the nose area. Pimples or black heads there, may indicate blood sugar issues or gut inflammation.
- The Lung area on the lower cheek can reflect Lung deficiency when dryness and wrinkles are prominent.
- The Small Intestine area: pimples on the forehead may indicate bacteria overgrowth, and absorption issues.
- The Gallbladder areas at the corner of the eyes often have wrinkle lines and maybe a cause of indecision.
- The Bladder area: pimples on the forehead may indicate lack of hydration.
- The Stomach area on the cheek often will show redness and indicate ST Heat.
- The Large Intestine at the corner of the mouth often maybe dry showing colon issues.
- The reproductive system area (which connects to the TCM Kidneys) is located on the chin. Pimples and cystic acne here shows a reproductive hormone imbalance.
