diagnose some serious diseases from the face there's only one problem and that is traditionally facial diagnosis was not used to diagnose diseases it was used to diagnose symptoms okay so i actually don't go around diagnosing diseases but i wanted you to see the diseases and see what symptoms are involved so i will teach you that i don't go around to look at someone's because someone comes to me and i say oh you have cancer in fact i'm very careful not to say it even if i know they have it because first of all i'm not a doctor second i'm not an acupuncturist i'm a specialist in facial diagnosis that i learned from my chinese grandmother her family passed it down for many many many generations so i have a long lineage of people who did facial diagnosis and face reading for business so it's medical and business oriented so what i want to do today is talk to you about some of the very specific signs that you can learn about and go use your practice immediately that on monday you can actually start looking people going oh there's a lot more pain on that in that person's face than i thought there was or oh the you know the kidneys are a little bit inflamed or the liver is definitely you know acting up so i want to show you some of those signs with photographs and i want to give you some basis of understanding about why the face shows this so well and we will look at some people who are seriously ill some of my students tease me because i go through the internet collecting photographs of dead movie stars but i don't know who else to collect because that's that's who i can find now let me explain to you how i work with a patient who does have a serious disease and i get a lot of them um i'm very well known for my facial diagnosis work if someone comes to me and asks me if they're sick i don't say yes you're sick in fact what i do is ask them if they are sick or how they're feeling and have them tell me and i will validate their symptoms and their diagnoses often with the markers in the face to give you an example i had a client well i was actually doing a clinic visit with one of my long time students and he had a it was a really really weird day um he didn't tell anybody i was coming i just came in and we made the session slightly longer where i i talked to the patients for a little while he treated based on the diagnosis that i came up with and we had a really interesting couple of sessions because we had three vulvodynia patients in one day now vulvodynia is not very common and three in one day is odd it's very odd and i was a little bit alarmed because i've never worked for velvedita and i wasn't really sure exactly what to look for the first patient had very clearly showed redness in the vulvar area okay it was above the area it was very easy to see that certainly there was some kind of pain going on there and you know that was a easy read and so we worked with her in certain ways but the other two were very interesting to me because the one she wasn't showing anything here at all and she was showing a lot of red in her chin a lot and i said to her are you sure you don't have something going on with your bladder and she said oh yes i have interstitial cystitis also and i said well i have news for you i think you've got some nerve stuff going on with interstitial cystitis that's actually being diagnosed as vulvodynia and so i really want to work with the bladder instead of working with the reproductive organs and the points for that so um the third one was even more interesting because it had no symptoms whatsoever in the face she has vulvodynia apparently she has definite definite pain in that area she is doesn't have any sex um she doesn't want to have any sex there was the clue and i said to her well why don't you want to have any sex and she said oh well i was abused well when you have a like post-traumatic stress disorder based on any trauma it's going to lodge often in the place in the body where the trauma occurred so what she has to do is do some psychological work you know i sent her to a therapist to work on this because she's got sexual abuse issues that are causing the vulva pain and that it didn't show up as a physiological symptom it's actually a psychological symptom that doesn't mean it's not real but it means that it's based on something very emotional and she has a lot of spasms um in that area because that area is still so compromised in terms of the the holding pattern of the emotions that are there okay so it was a really interesting day because once clearly had vulvodynia one clearly did it was it was it was definitely this red she had issues underneath it too but they were easy to find but the other two were very very different so when i see people i work with some interesting stuff um i get all kinds of stuff i want to give you some basic tenets of facial diagnosis um the way that i work is i work a lot with the psychological and emotional underlay disease i certainly understand that there are diseases that are caused by all kinds of factors the environment our diets you know predispositions that are based on heredity but i have a problem with people who base their health conditions on their genetics and the reason why is if you read the newest information in epigenetics which i think everybody should read it's very very clear that you may be predisposed to illnesses we all are you know we all have things in our family and we certainly are raised with those people so that we act in similar ways and we eat in similar ways we do all these things that are very similar so of course we're set up but if you choose to go a different way you may not get that disease at all you