病患五脏已夺,神明不守,声嘶者,死。
病患循衣缝, 语者,不可治。
病患阴阳俱绝,掣衣撮空,妄言者,死。
病患妄语错乱,及不能言者,不治;热病者,可治。
病患阴阳俱绝,失音不能言者,三日半死。
病患两目 有黄色起者,其病方愈。
病患面黄目青者,至期而死,重出在下文。
病患面黄目赤,不死;赤如 血者,死。
病患面黄目白者,不死;白如枯骨者,死。
病患面黄目黑者,不死;黑如 ,死。
病患面黑目青者,不死。
病患面目俱黄者,不死。
病患面青目白者,死。
病患面黑目白者,不死。
病患面赤目青者,六日死。
病患面黄目青者,九日必死。是谓乱经。饮酒当风,邪入胃经,胆气妄泄,目则为青,虽天救亦不可生。
病患面赤目白者,十日死;忧、恚、思,心气内索,面色反好,急棺椁。
病患面白目黑者,死。此谓荣华已去,血脉空索。
病患面黑目白,八日死。肾气内伤,病因留积。
病患面青目白,五日死。
病患着床,心痛短气,脾气内竭,后百日复愈。能起彷徨,因坐于地,其上倚床,能治此者也。
病患耳目鼻口,有黑色起入于口者,必死。
病患目无精光,若土色不受饮食者,四日死。
病患目无精光,及牙齿黑色者,不治。
病患耳目及颧颊赤者,死在五日中。
病患黑色出于额上发际,直鼻脊两颧上者,亦死在五日中矣。
病患黑色出天中,下至上颧上者,死。
病患及健人黑色,若白色起,入目及鼻口者,死在三日中矣。
病患及健人面忽如马肝色,望之如青,近之如黑者,必死矣。
病患面黑,直视恶风者,死。
病患面黑唇青者,死。
病患面青唇黑者,死。
病患面黑,两胁下满,不能自转反者,死。
病患目不回,直视者,一日死。
病患头目久痛,卒视无所见者,死。
病患阴结阳绝,目睛脱,恍惚者,死。
病患阴阳结绝,目眶陷者,死。
病患眉系倾者,七日死。
病患口如鱼口,不能复闭,而气出多不返者,死。
病患卧,遗尿不觉者,死。
病患尸臭者,不可治。
肝病皮白,肺之日,庚辛死。
心病目黑,肾之日,壬癸死。
脾病唇青,肝之日,甲乙死。
肺病颊赤目肿,心之日,丙丁死。
肾病面肿唇黄,脾之日,戊己死。
青欲如苍璧之泽,不欲如蓝。
赤欲如帛裹朱,不欲如赭。
白欲如鹅羽,不欲如枯骨。
黑欲如黑漆,不欲如炭。
黄欲如罗裹雄黄,不欲如土。
目赤色者病在心,白在肺,黑在肾,黄在脾,青在肝,黄色不可名者,病在胸中。
诊目病,赤脉从上下者,太阳病也;从下上者,阳明病也;从外入内者,少阳病也。
诊寒热瘰 ,目中有赤脉,从上下至瞳子,见一脉,一岁死;见一脉半,一岁半死;见二脉
,二岁死;见二脉半,二岁半死;见三脉,三岁死。
诊牙齿痛,按其阳明之脉来太过者,独热在右,右热;热在左,左热;热在上,上热;热
诊血者,脉多赤多热,多青多痛,多黑多黄,多痹多赤,多黑多青,皆见者,寒热身痛,面
色微,齿垢,黄爪甲上,黄胆也。安卧少黄赤,脉小而涩者,不嗜食。
If the patient's five zang organs have exhausted their essence, spirit and mind are not guarded, and the voice is hoarse, death ensues.
If the patient picks at the seams of clothing and speaks incoherently, it is incurable.
If the patient's yin and yang qi are both exhausted, exhibiting pulling at clothes and grasping at empty air, along with delirious speech, death ensues.
If the patient speaks deliriously, is confused, or cannot speak, it is incurable; however, if it is due to a heat disease (Re Bing), it may be treatable.
If the patient's yin and yang qi are both exhausted and they lose their voice and cannot speak, death occurs in three and a half days.
If yellowish hue appears at the corners of the patient's eyes, the illness is about to heal.
If the patient has a yellow complexion and greenish eyes, death will occur at the designated time; this is repeated later in the text.
If the patient has a yellow complexion and red eyes, they will survive; but if the redness resembles blood, death ensues.
If the patient has a yellow complexion and white eyes, they will survive; but if the whiteness resembles dry bones, death ensues.
If the patient has a yellow complexion and black eyes, they will survive; but if the blackness resembles [coal/ink], death ensues.
If the patient has a black complexion and greenish eyes, they will survive.
If the patient has a yellow complexion on both face and eyes, they will survive.
If the patient has a greenish complexion and white eyes, death ensues.
If the patient has a black complexion and white eyes, they will survive.
If the patient has a red complexion and greenish eyes, death occurs in six days.
If the patient has a yellow complexion and greenish eyes, death will certainly occur in nine days. This is called "disorder of the meridians" (Luan Jing). Drinking alcohol while exposed to wind allows pathogenic factors to enter the Stomach meridian, causing gallbladder qi to leak recklessly, turning the eyes green; even with heavenly rescue, survival is impossible.
If the patient has a red complexion and white eyes, death occurs in ten days; if caused by sorrow, anger, or excessive thinking, leading to internal depletion of heart qi, yet the facial color appears surprisingly good, prepare the coffin urgently.
If the patient has a white complexion and black eyes, death ensues. This indicates that glory and brilliance have departed, and blood vessels are emptied and depleted.
If the patient has a black complexion and white eyes, death occurs in eight days. Kidney qi is internally injured, and the pathogenic cause remains stagnant and accumulated.
If the patient has a greenish complexion and white eyes, death occurs in five days.
If the patient is bedridden, suffers from heart pain and shortness of breath, and spleen qi is internally exhausted, recovery may occur after one hundred days. If they can rise and pace, sit on the ground, lean against the bed, and recover, such cases can be treated.
If blackish hue arises in the patient's ears, eyes, nose, and mouth and enters the mouth, death is certain.
If the patient's eyes lack luster and the complexion is like earth, unable to eat or drink, death occurs in four days.
If the patient's eyes lack luster and the teeth are black, it is incurable.
If the patient's ears, eyes, and cheekbones are red, death occurs within five days.
If blackish hue emerges from the hairline on the forehead, straight up the nasal bridge to above the cheekbones, death also occurs within five days.
If blackish hue emerges from Tianzhong (the area between the eyebrows) and extends downward to above the cheekbones, death ensues.
If black or white hue suddenly appears on the faces of patients or healthy individuals, entering the eyes, nose, and mouth, death occurs within three days.
If the patient or a healthy person's face suddenly looks like horse liver color—greenish from afar and blackish up close—death is certain.
If the patient has a black complexion, fixed gaze, and aversion to wind, death ensues.
If the patient has a black complexion and cyan lips, death ensues.
If the patient has a cyan complexion and black lips, death ensues.
If the patient has a black complexion, fullness under both hypochondria, and inability to turn over independently, death ensues.
If the patient's eyes do not move and gaze fixedly, death occurs in one day.
If the patient suffers from chronic headache and eye pain, followed by sudden blindness, death ensues.
If the patient has yin knotting and yang exhaustion, protruding eyeballs, and mental confusion, death ensues.
If the patient has yin and yang knotting and exhaustion, with sunken eye sockets, death ensues.
If the patient's eyebrow tails droop, death occurs in seven days.
If the patient's mouth opens like a fish's mouth, cannot close, and breath exits without returning, death ensues.
If the patient urinates involuntarily while lying down without awareness, death ensues.
If the patient emits a corpse-like odor, it is incurable.
In liver disease, if the skin is white, death occurs on Geng-Xin days (Metal days).
In heart disease, if the eyes are black, death occurs on Ren-Gui days (Water days).
In spleen disease, if the lips are cyan, death occurs on Jia-Yi days (Wood days).
In lung disease, if the cheeks are red and eyes swollen, death occurs on Bing-Ding days (Fire days).
In kidney disease, if the face is swollen and lips yellow, death occurs on Wu-Ji days (Earth days).
Green should resemble the luster of dark jade, not the dullness of indigo.
Red should resemble cinnabar wrapped in silk, not the dullness of hematite.
White should resemble goose feathers, not the dryness of dead bones.
Black should resemble black lacquer, not the charred look of charcoal.
Yellow should resemble realgar wrapped in thin silk, not the dullness of soil.
Red eyes indicate disease in the Heart; white in the Lungs; black in the Kidneys; yellow in the Spleen; green in the Liver; yellow that cannot be clearly defined indicates disease in the Chest center.
When diagnosing eye diseases: red veins moving from top to bottom indicate Taiyang disease; from bottom to top, Yangming disease; from outside to inside, Shaoyang disease.
When diagnosing scrofula (Luo Li) with chills and fever: if red veins in the eyes extend from top to bottom to the pupil, seeing one vein means death in one year; one and a half veins, death in one and a half years; two veins, death in two years; two and a half veins, death in two and a half years; three veins, death in three years.
When diagnosing toothache, pressing the Yangming pulse which is excessive: heat on the right indicates right-sided heat; heat on the left indicates left-sided heat; heat above indicates upper-body heat... [text cuts off].
When diagnosing blood conditions: pulses that are mostly red indicate heat; mostly green indicate pain; mostly black and yellow indicate bi-syndrome; mostly red and black/green appearing together indicate alternating chills and fever with body pain, slightly yellowish complexion, dental fur, and yellow nails, indicating jaundice (Huang Dan). Those who lie still with little red/yellow hue and have small, choppy pulses suffer from poor appetite.