What Your Face Says About Your Health

“This face you got, this here phizzog you carry around, you never picked it out for yourself at all, at all—-did you?” from Phizzog, by Carl Sandburg

Your body’s unique intelligence has a way of telling you when something is wrong and it needs help. Not understanding this language makes it difficult to know when your body is talking to you. In Eastern medicine a doctor will read what is written in your face, tongue, eyes, skin, and pulse. The signs of depletion are all there and may have been for some time.

Visual diagnosis is an ancient tool used by traditional healers to discover the strengths and weaknesses, and health (or lack of health), within the body. Once awareness of what’s happening inside the body becomes evident, it can be used to diagnose an illness or prevent an illness from fully manifesting. Awareness of your body is the key to figuring out the necessary diet and lifestyle adjustments to obtain vibrant health. In Oriental diagnosis each organ is seen in relation to all the others, with energy flowing in one continuous circuit.

This energy, called ki (Japanese), chi (Chinese) or prana (Indian), runs through the body in pathways called meridians that are associated with each organ: liver, gallbladder, heart, small intestine, stomach, spleen/pancreas, lung, large intestine, kidney, and bladder. Your face is the most revealing part of your body and provides insight into the larger internal body systems. According to Oriental diagnosis each area of your face manifests a corresponding organ and how it is functioning in the body. For example:

The mouth is the entrance to the digestive tract.
The nose is the entrance to the respiratory system.
The eyes are connected to the optic nerve, brain and nervous system.
The ears are the auditory system.

14 Things Your Eyes Say About Your Health

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Ra S.

1:46PM PST on Mar 2, 2012

As someone with an invisible disability and who is quite ill, I get tired of being told that I look fine. Especially when I was younger, I looked young and healthy, but I wasn't. A lot of things don't show.

send a green star

Dale O.

3:05PM PST on Mar 1, 2012

Fascinating and useful information, wonderful!

Pat L.

10:35PM PST on Feb 27, 2012

When my husband became ill with CLL at 42 (chronic lymphocytic leukemia) we first saw an oncologist who talked about radiation, chemo, how his body would slowly break down. The first year of his illness we were in a haze, worrying about what would happen and if we'd have a life together. Then we met someone who had seen a doctor who specialized in traditional Chinese medicine. This doctor had been a practicing oncologist at a famous hospital in Texas, but he felt he was treating symptoms rather than the whole disease. So he returned to traditional Chinese medicine; he was the 4th generation in his family to practice. When my husband saw him, this doctor looked at my husband's face, eyes, skin, fingers, nails and so on. We didn't tell him my husband's illness, but he diagnosed it anyway. We are certain that his treatments of herbs and medicinal teas have kept my husband well and able to avoid any radical western medicine. 14 years later a cure is being developed, not chemo, but a simple pill that will soon be available. Without traditional Chinese medicine and this excellent physician, we know my husband wouldn't be here to take advantage of this cure.

Vivek B.

4:37PM PST on Feb 24, 2012

thanku for introducing such an explanation about reading face ..

thankyou i really enjoyed it :)

Joe R.

12:06PM PST on Feb 24, 2012

Interesting.

Sue H.

6:33AM PST on Feb 23, 2012

Got it

Nessa S.

8:22AM PST on Feb 22, 2012

Looks like i need to start some changes in my diet.. and include some things in to it even. Thank you so much for this!

Kori S.

8:14AM PST on Feb 22, 2012

well this is certainly an eye opener.

Nicole G.

11:20PM PST on Feb 21, 2012

I enjoyed reading the article and found that many of the statements are personally true for me. I also learned some new things. Therefore, its true that you're never to old to learn something new.

Deb L.

10:58PM PST on Feb 20, 2012

Interesting, leaves me wanting to know more. Hi-ho, hi-ho, ...off to the library I go to find those books!!