Red facial complexion

Also red face. A complexion redder than normal; a sign of heat.

External wind-heat exterior patterns are characterized by a red face with pronounced heat effusion and mild aversion to cold, thirst, sweating, red sore swollen throat, a red tongue tip and margins, a thin yellow tongue fur, and a rapid floating pulse.

yáng brightness (yáng míng) channel heat is marked by a continuous full red facial complexion (面色缘缘正赤 miàn sè yuán yuán zhèng chì) with high fever, sweating, aversion to heat rather than to cold, thirst with intake of fluids, a dry yellow tongue fur, and a large surging pulse.

Heat entering provisioning-blood is characterized by redness of the whole face (满面通红 mǎn miàn tōng hóng) with a generalized heat that is most pronounced at night, dry mouth with little intake of fluid, heart vexation and sleepless, periodic delirious speech, maculopapular eruptions, ejection of blood and spontaneous external bleeding, bloody stool, bloody urine, a red or crimson tongue body, and a fine rapid pulse.

Yīn vacuity internal heat is characterized by a somber-white facial complexion with postmeridian reddening of the cheeks; (午后两颧发赤 wǔ hòu liǎng quán fā chì) this is associated with emaciation, dry mouth and throat dizziness, insomnia, tidal heat, night sweating, vexing heat in the five hearts, red tongue with scant fur, and fine rapid pulse.

Vacuous yáng floating astray (also called upcast yáng) is marked by cheeks that are a floating red as if dabbed with rouge (两颧泛红如妆 liǎng quán fàn hóng rú zhuāng) (floating describes how the patches constantly change location); this is observed in severe illnesses and is accompanied by generalized heat effusion despite a desire to keep well wrapped, thirst with liking for warm drinks, short hasty breathing, cold sweating, reversal cold of the limbs, clear urine and sloppy stool, pale lips and tongue, white or gray-black moist tongue fur, and a faint pulse on the verge of expiration.