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MENTAL MODEL · M2572

Skin like Fish Scales / Ji Fu Jia Cuo

Skin like Fish Scales / Ji Fu Jia Cuo
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Updated 2026-08-02

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

A diagnostic sign in classical Chinese medicine, described in the Jinkui Yaolue as a hallmark of dry blood, meaning old congealed blood retained deep in the body. The skin becomes dry, rough, and scaly, and the area around the eyes darkens. The proposition is that the visible dryness is a supply failure downstream of an obstruction upstream. The key constraint is that treating the skin itself is the wrong level; the pattern calls for breaking up stagnant blood and restoring flow.

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- Dead riverbed lens: read cracked, scaly skin as a dry channel whose upstream flow is blocked. - Level-of-treatment check: ask whether the visible defect is the problem or a downstream symptom. - Combined-sign reading: treat scaly skin plus dark eye rings as one pattern rather than two complaints.

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Old blood congealed deep in the body obstructs circulation, so fresh blood cannot reach the surface. The skin, starved of nourishment, dries and lifts into scales, while stagnant flow shows as darkness around the eyes. The mechanism is an obstruction upstream producing a supply failure at the surface, which is why the lesion cannot be repaired from the outside.

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