Observation Of The Hands

Front 1

pale hands

Back 1

yang deficiency
blood deficiency
heart yang or lung yang deficiency
heard blood or liver yang deficiency

Front 2

red dorsum of the hands

Back 2

full heat of heart lungs or stomach

Front 3

red palms

Back 3

empty heat of the heart lungs or stomach

Front 4

bluish or bluish/purple venules on thenar eminence

Back 4

cold in the stomach

Front 5

bluish but short venules on the thenar eminence

Back 5

deficiency of qi
empty cold from stomach yang deficiency

Front 6

reddish venules

Back 6

full heat or empty heat of stomach and or lungs

Front 7

atrophy of the muscles of the dorsum of the hands

Back 7

liver blood deficiency
kidney yin deficiency
stomach and spleen qi deficiency

Front 8

hand tremor

Back 8

full or empty wind
liver wind or wind phlegm in the liver

Front 9

fine hand tremor

Back 9

empty liver wind form blood or yin deficiency
retention of dampness in the muscles and sinews of the hand

Front 10

fine hand tremor from alcoholics

Back 10

phlegm heat

Front 11

contraction of the fingers with normal movement of the wrist joint and all the joints above it

Back 11

(chicken claw wind)
liver blood deficiency
liver yin deficiency
cold in the joints
stagnation of qi from emotional problems (comes and go)

Front 12

tinea of the hand

Back 12

external invasion of wind heat or damp heat

Front 13

tinea of the nails

Back 13

goose claw wind

Front 14

swollen fingers

Back 14

damp bi
heart or liver blood stasis
edema from the lung
spleen yang deficiency
blood stasis of heart or liver