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Heart disease: The complexion is red, and the tongue is crimson. If the tongue is deeply crimson, dry, and curled, it indicates excess pathogenic factors; if it is pale red, moist, but short, it indicates deficiency of healthy qi. Excess patterns manifest as dry mouth, mental restlessness, tendency to laugh, chest pain, forgetfulness, palpitations, pulsation at the umbilicus, mania, and coma. Deficiency patterns manifest as frequent sorrow and heat in the palms.

Liver disease: The complexion is green. Excess patterns manifest as convulsions, tendon contraction, hypochondriac pain, deafness, hernia, masses (Zheng Jia), constipation, stranguria with turbidity, and irritability. Deficiency patterns manifest as blurred vision or inability to see, accompanied by a sense of fear as if being pursued.

Spleen disease: The complexion is yellow. Excess patterns manifest as heaviness of the body, abdominal distension, constipation, and frequent belching. Deficiency patterns manifest as excessive thinking, borborygmus, diarrhea, lethargy and fatigue, joint pain, and poor appetite.

Lung disease: The complexion is white. Excess patterns manifest as chest bi syndrome, hypochondriac pain, frequent sneezing, and sadness/worry. Deficiency patterns manifest as asthma and cough, aversion to cold, and shortness of breath with inability to complete inhalation.

Kidney disease: The complexion is black, and the ears are black. Excess patterns manifest as timidity, frequent yawning, rebellious qi, cold calves, wheezing with inability to lie flat, difficulty in urination and defecation, lower abdominal distension and pain with diarrhea, qi movement and fluid retention below the umbilicus, and pain in the back and joints. Deficiency patterns manifest as a hollow feeling in the heart resembling hunger.

Heart exhaustion (Jue): The face is red, shoulders droop, eyes stare straight or roll abnormally, palms are swollen without visible lines, speech is disordered, there is feverish oppression, the mouth is open, and death occurs within one day.

Liver exhaustion: The face is green and swollen, the tongue is curled and the scrotum retracted, the eyes cannot see people, sweat pours like rain, the patient prefers lying prone, limbs are weak, crying does not stop, convulsions occur with eye closure, and death occurs within eight days.

Spleen exhaustion: The face is yellow and swollen, the head feels distended, the lips are cold, the abdomen is hot, the umbilicus and dorsum of the feet are swollen, diarrhea is unceasing, soiling clothes goes unnoticed, the lips invert and flesh becomes rough, hands relax and cannot grasp, and death occurs within eleven days.

Lung exhaustion: The face is white, the mouth is open with air exhaling straight out without returning, the skin is hot, nails are withered, the voice sounds like snoring, and death occurs within three days.

Kidney exhaustion: The face is black, the sclera is yellow, teeth are withered, hair is brittle, sweat flows incessantly, waist pain feels like breaking, teeth ache, there is a sensation of bone and flesh separating, blindness occurs, enuresis happens, and death occurs within four days.

Gallbladder exhaustion: Eyebrows droop, and death occurs within seven days.
Stomach exhaustion: The waist feels heavy, the spine hurts, turning over is difficult, and death occurs within five days.
Small Intestine exhaustion: Hair stands straight like hemp, sweat flows incessantly, and death occurs within six days.
Large Intestine exhaustion: Diarrhea is unceasing; if diarrhea stops, death follows.
Tendon exhaustion: Nails on hands and feet turn cyan or fall off, shouting and cursing do not cease, and death occurs within nine days.
Bone exhaustion: Waist pain makes turning difficult, teeth fall out, the pulse is floating and rootless, and death occurs within ten days.
Flesh exhaustion: The tongue and feet swell, the body feels heavy, stool contains blood, urine contains blood, and death occurs within six days.