Face Reading: Orange Ring Around the Mouth

Wondering about the subtle orange ring around her mouth, Joan* age 41,  signed on for a free Mini Face Reading. Joan has noticed the ring for the past few years and had tried, unsuccessfully, to resolve it with various diets and remedies. In this blog we consider a person’s health and/or complexion concerns using the Chinese 5-Element System. This enables us to delve below the surface, or mere symptom (in Joan’s case, discoloration), to discern the root of the problem. 

Faces Show Multiple Interdependent Systems

Like a multi-featured map that shows roads, bike trails and train tracks, our faces also show multiple interdependent systems. Western medicine addresses the most obvious: sensory, lymph, circulatory and muscular-skeletal systems. Asian medicine goes a step further. It maps out subtle energetic zones and trails, such as the Large Intestine Meridian depicted below.

These energy trails run under the skin and can color or impact the complexion as we’ll see on Joan. Each meridian has multiple acupuncture points where the energy is more concentrated.

For example, the paired Large Intestine Meridians have 20 acupuncture points. Each begins on the index finger, travels up the arm and ends on the face where the nostrils flare. Here’s a map showing one side of the Large Intestine Meridian’s route up the neck to its terminus at Large Intestine point number 20.

Value of a Soft Gaze

With this background information, we are almost ready to zoom in on Joan. However, before getting critical, our first step is to appreciate, and this requires a soft gaze. As you regard Joan, what strikes you first? There’s no right answer, it’s your own subjective, heartfelt reaction to another being. It is a great practice to value the beauty that resides in all faces (unless, that is, a face is temporarily distorted by a strong negative emotion).

Joan looks like a woman I’d enjoy having a cup of tea with. To my eye her face suggests inner clarity and a sense of purpose. My hunch is that she’s engaged in positive activities that she finds rewarding be it caring for her immediate family and/or the larger community.

Face Mapping

Joan describes her troublesome facial feature as an orange ring around her mouth. However, the problematic orange travels from the outer nostrils, past the mouth corners and partially down the chin. It actually maps the Large Intestine Meridians and, therefore, reveals an underlying gut issue. This trail tells a story!

Besides meridian identification, this trail holds a second important clue. Color. When a facial area has a warm color (red, orange or pink) it suggests excessive inner heat and/or inflammation. So reading this face like a map, there appears to be an inflamed colon.

Knowing this, Joan’s opportunity is to adjust her diet and lifestyle to regain gut health. I’ve privately advised Joan of steps specific to her. You will find some of that information here: Five Elements and the Metal Element Blog.

Symptoms Vary

To see similar discoloration, but from different underlying causes, see the blog: red-orange color around her lips.  Her discoloration stemmed from different underlying causes than that of Joan’s. Indeed, we all manifest a myriad of symptoms and facial characteristics. With Face Reading, we can get to the root of the problem to regain our normal complexion and upgrade our health. How useful.

If something appears on your face that differs from your personal norm, then its location and color as well as the skin tone and texture are telling. They point us to the underground cause of your facial concern. Knowing the cause is your first step in healing as it points you to relevant remedies.

Confidential and in-depth Face Reading Reports via email are available here.

• Name changed to respect privacy.