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| Four Main Items in Tongue Diagnosis: |
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● Body Color
● Body Shape
● Tongue Coating
● Tongue Moisture |
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| Body Color Indicates Conditions Of: |
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● Blood
● Nutritive Qi
● Yin Organs |
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| Body Color Reflects Conditions Of: |
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● State of Blood
● State of Nutritive Qi |
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| Body Shape Reflects Conditions Of: |
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| Tongue Coating Indicates: |
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● State of the Yang Organs
● Conditions of Heat
● Conditions of Cold |
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| Tongue Coating Reflects Conditions Of: |
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● Heat
● Cold
● Fullness
● Deficiency |
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| Tongue Moisture Indicates: |
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| ● State of the Body Fluids |
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| SIDES of the tongue TOWARDS the FRONT: |
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Reflect the Chest Area
○ Heart
○ Lungs
○ Breasts |
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| Pale and slightly too wet |
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Deficiency of Yang (because in Deficient Yang,
fluids are not transformed properly) |
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| Pale and slightly too wet |
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Deficiency of Yang (because in Deficient Yang,
fluids are not transformed properly) |
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Sides of the tongue especially Pale or slightly
ORANGEY |
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| Deficiency of Liver Blood |
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| Red tongue without coating |
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| Red tip on a Red tongue with coating |
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| Red tip on a Red tongue without coating |
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| Heart Yin Deficiency Heat |
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Red tip, swollen and with red points, on a red
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Liver Fire
Gall Bladder Heat |
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| Red sides without coating |
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| Red sides without coating |
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| Red sides swollen with red points |
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| Red sides swollen with red points |
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| Red points or spots on the sides of the tongue |
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| Red center without coating |
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| Stomach Heat from Deficiency |
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| Red points or spots on the root of the tongue |
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| Red points in the center of the tongue |
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Same as the indications of red, just more
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| Always indicates: Stasis of Blood |
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Heat and Stasis of Blood
Develops from a Red tongue |
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Cold and Stasis of Blood
Develops from a Pale Tongue |
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| Bluish-Purple on the sides in women |
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| Blood stasis in the uterus |
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| Bluish-Purple on the sides in women |
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| Blood stasis in the uterus |
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| Blood stasis in the Stomach |
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Same as bluish-purple
Interior Cold → Blood Stasis |
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Blood Deficiency
Chronic condition |
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| Thin Body and Red without coating |
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Yin Deficiency
Chronic condition |
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Retention of Dampness
Phlegm (especially) |
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| Swollen sides, wider, and on a Pale tongue |
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| Swelling in the front third of the tongue |
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Interior Wind
Blood Stasis |
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| Deficiency of Body Fluids |
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Tendency to Heat
Heart Heat (in particular) |
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| Short, horizontal or vertical cracks |
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| Long, Deep midline crack reaching the tip |
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Tendency to a heart pattern
“Heart Crack” |
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Shallow, wide crack in the midline not reaching
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Stomach Yin Deficiency
“Stomach Crack” |
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Short transversal cracks on the sides, in the
middle section of the tongue |
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Chronic Spleen Qi
Spleen Yin Deficiency |
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Normal tongue
Stomach is digesting properly |
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Presence of a pathogenic factor
Exterior or Interior
Wind, Dampness, Cold, retention of Food,
Phlegm, Heat or Fire |
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| The stronger the pathogenic factor |
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Coating without root – coating has been added
to the tongue rather than growing out of it |
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| Partial absence of coating |
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Stomach Yin Deficiency
Kidney Yin Deficiency
or Both |
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| Kidney Yin Deficiency with Deficient Heat |
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White coating
Yellow coating
Gray coating
Black coating |
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| Pathological Tongue coating colors |
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| White coating (but not thin and white) |
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Normal tongue: body fluids are intact and are
properly distributed throughout the body |
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Yang Qi not transforming and transporting fluids
Accumulation of Dampness |
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Yang Qi not transforming and transporting fluids
Accumulation of Dampness |
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| Tongue is too dry with coating |
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| Tongue is too dry without coating |
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| Sticky or slippery coating |
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