Facial diagnosis - Read the map of life

Training and script in English

Interpreter: Werner Freystätter

Course description

The face reflects not only our genes and life experiences, but also our inner health and emotional state. In Chinese medicine, facial diagnosis is a technique used to assess a person's overall health by examining changes in the color, texture, and features of the skin, which correspond to specific organs and energy systems.

Facial diagnosis is a valuable, non-invasive tool for therapists, providing quick insight into a patient's internal balance. It complements other methods such as pulse and tongue diagnosis and helps to identify emotional imbalances that affect physical health. By detecting disharmonies early on, facial diagnosis enables more comprehensive and preventive treatments.

Course content

- Introduction to facial analysis 
- The structure of the face: map of life 
- The two faces and the three zones
- The five phases of change in the face:
  - Water characteristics—profile and personality, ears, hairline, upper forehead, eye area, philtrum, kidney system.
  - Wood characteristics – profile and personality, eyebrows, brow bones, temples, eye depth, sclera of the eye, jaw, stature, liver system.
  - Fire characteristics - profile and personality, eye size, eye shape, eye base, eye corners, iris, hair types, tips and corners of other features. Heart system. 
  - Earth characteristics - profile and personality, mouth and lips, upper lip area, upper eyelids, bridge of the nose, lower cheeks, temples, spleen - stomach system.
  - Metal characteristics - profile and personality, nose, cheekbones and upper cheeks, spaces in the face, laugh lines, eyelids and upper forehead, skin, birthmarks, lung system.
- Complete reading of the face with exercises in class. 

Course prerequisite

Basic knowledge of chinese medicine

Certificate

All participants will receive a certificate of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Klassische Akupunktur und TCM e.V.”