According to the Chinese medical tradition of facial reading, when the white part of the eye, known as sclera is visible under the iris, it is identified with the term Yin Sanpaku and is associated with a physical imbalance of the body present in alcoholics, drug addicts and individuals with high levels of sugar consumption. or grain. On the other hand, when it is the upper part of the sclera that remains visible, it is believed to be indicative of a mental imbalance present in individuals with psychotic alterations, murderers and anyone prone to suffer episodes of anger. Stress or fatigue can also be the cause of what is known as Yang Sanpaku. In any case, these people are considered to attract accidental or violent situations. In August 1963, Japanese macrobiotic philosopher George Ohsawa predicted that President John F. Kennedy would experience great danger because of his sanpaku status. Ohsawa also links the deaths of other celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln to the visibility of the sclera under his eyes. In 1965, Ohsawa, along with William Dufty,wrote "You Are All Sanpaku," which offers the following perspective on the term:

For thousands of years, the population of the Far East looked into the eyes of others for signs of this terrible condition. Any sign of sanpaku meant that the individual's physical condition—physical, psychological, and spiritual—was corrupted. That he had committed sins against the order of the universe and that therefore he was a sick, unhappy and deranged person, which in the West is known as "prone to accidents". The condition of sanpaku is a warning, a sign of nature, that the subject's life is threatened by an early tragic end.

According to the Chinese medical tradition of facial reading, when the white part of the eye, known as sclera is visible under the iris, it is identified with the term Yin Sanpaku and is associated with a physical imbalance of the body present in alcoholics, drug addicts and individuals with high levels of sugar consumption. or grain. On the other hand, when it is the upper part of the sclera that remains visible, it is believed to be indicative of a mental imbalance present in individuals with psychotic alterations, murderers and anyone prone to suffer episodes of anger. Stress or fatigue can also be the cause of what is known as Yang Sanpaku. In any case, these people are considered to attract accidental or violent situations. In August 1963, Japanese macrobiotic philosopher George Ohsawa predicted that President John F. Kennedy would experience great danger because of his sanpaku status. Ohsawa also links the deaths of other celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln to the visibility of the sclera under his eyes. In 1965, Ohsawa, along with William Dufty,wrote "You Are All Sanpaku," which offers the following perspective on the term:

For thousands of years, the population of the Far East looked into the eyes of others for signs of this terrible condition. Any sign of sanpaku meant that the individual's physical condition—physical, psychological, and spiritual—was corrupted. That he had committed sins against the order of the universe and that therefore he was a sick, unhappy and deranged person, which in the West is known as "prone to accidents". The condition of sanpaku is a warning, a sign of nature, that the subject's life is threatened by an early tragic end.