The feature of the fat, thin, dark color, and white(bright?) color (肥瘦黑白의 特徵) in hyungsang medicine (形象醫學)
The feature of the fat, thin, dark color, and white(bright?)
color (肥瘦黑白의 特徵)
In general, those who are fat and white
(bright) complexion tend to be in qi vacuity with damp and phlegm. Those who are
thin and dark complexion tend to be in blood vacuity with fire.
Fat person, constitutionally, has strong stomach
and spleen and eats well. And fat person bears the cold well but feels hard in
hot whether. The night is in which yin is exuberant and yang is vacuous, when it
is cold, and the time for sleep.
Fat person has exuberant physique and debilitated
qi, debilitated qi causes cold damp and phlegm to be stagnated, leaing to
getting weight. Hence, for fat person, 加味六君子湯 (Jia Wei
Liu Jun Zi Tang), 笭桂朮甘湯 (Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang), and so
on should be applied to loose weight.
Thin person has weak stomach and spleen so
does not eat well. And thin person bears the heat well but not the cold. As like
[the nature of] the day, thin person is in exuberant yang and vacuous yin so doesn't
sleep much and likes to move.
Thin person is in replete qi and vacuous
blood, and exuberant qi and debilitated physique, hence fire and dry heat are
copious in the body, and blood vacuity with fire and congested heat frequently
occur. So, to make thin person fat is to make the stomach and spleen healthy in
order to eat well, to make the one sleep well, and to enrich yin, nourish
blood, and drain fire. 滋陰降火湯(Zi Yin Jiang Huo Tang) 四六湯 (Si Liu Tang) 補陰散(Bu yin San) 養胃進食湯 (Yang Wei Jin Shi Tang) can be used.