What part of the body do the lips correspond to?

Some abnormalities of the lips also correspond to one's physical condition. If you often feel that your lips are pale, it is mostly due to anemia or excessive blood loss. In this case, treatment should be targeted at the cause. Some patients are caused by gastrointestinal coldness. No matter what the situation is, you should find a suitable treatment method in the early stage to treat the disease fundamentally.

Pale lips are common in anemia and blood loss. Pale upper lip with bluish tint may cause cold in the large intestine, diarrhea, flatulence, abdominal cramps, chills, alternating hot and cold, etc.

Pale lower lip: It indicates a weak and cold stomach, which may cause vomiting, diarrhea, cold stomach, stomach cramps, etc.

Pale pink lips: mostly due to blood deficiency or qi and blood deficiency, nutrition needs to be supplemented.

Dark red lips: common in fever.

Bluish lips: blood circulation is not smooth and you are prone to acute diseases, especially vascular diseases such as vascular embolism, stroke and other acute diseases.

Dark lips: Dark lips are mostly caused by digestive system diseases, such as constipation, diarrhea, lower abdominal pain, headache, insomnia, loss of appetite, etc.; if black patches appear on the lips and there is pigmentation around the lips, it is common in chronic adrenal cortex insufficiency.

(a) Lips are red, dark red or purple

Tip: If the red color is too bright or dark purple, it may be caused by what is commonly known as "heat" in the body. If accompanied by bad breath and hiccups, it means damp heat in the spleen and stomach; if accompanied by pain and distension in the flanks and loss of appetite, it means excessive liver fire.

Common discomforts: toothache, headache, dizziness, constipation, yellow urine, etc.

Prevention and treatment methods:

1 Immediately reduce the intake of the following substances: spicy food, sugars, chicken, mutton. They will only produce more energy, making the fire in your body more intense, causing its color to become darker red.

2 Try not to take supplements containing ginseng, jujube and other substances. After all, adding fuel to the fire is very dangerous.

3 When so much discomfort occurs, medicine is needed to help. Take 30g of Scrophularia ningpoensis, 30g of Rehmannia glutinosa, 30g of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 2g of Cinnamon bark, decocted in water and taken orally. This recipe is a famous ancient recipe called Zengye Decoction. It has obvious relieving and therapeutic effect on the above-mentioned discomforts. It can clear the "fire" in the human body while replenishing the yin fluid, so that we are no longer like dry firewood that will catch fire easily when exposed to fire.

(ii) Lips are pale white

If you have pale lips for a long time, you should go to the hospital for a check-up. The doctor will give you some corresponding examinations based on your appearance and symptoms to rule out whether you have anemia. In addition, some patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and indigestion may also show symptoms such as lack of redness and dryness of lips, and some may also have cold limbs.

Common discomforts: fatigue, drowsiness, back pain, low libido, etc.