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TCM Tongue Body Shapes
tongue body shapes and related patterns
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Graduate
08/02/2021

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Term

Thin tongue

Definition

 

 

Blood deficiency (pale body)

Yin deficiency (red body)

Term
Swollen
Definition

 

 

Spleen/kidney yang deficiency with dampness

 

Damp-heat in the spleen/stomach

Term
Swollen Edges
Definition
Spleen qi deficiency
Term
Swollen Sides
Definition

Ascendant Liver Yang 

or Liver Fire

Term
Swollen Tip
Definition

Heart Fire Blazing (w/ red body)

Heart Qi deficiency (normal color)

Term
Half swollen
Definition
Weakness of channels
Term
Partly swollen on the side
Definition

deficiency or stagnation of qi in chest

 

Term
half surface swollen
Definition
Lung qi deficiency
Term
hammer-shaped
Definition
Stomach, Spleen, and Kidney deficiency
Term
Stiff
Definition
Exterior heat invading the Pericardium (red or dark red) Heat injuring the body fluids (red body)
Blazing Heart fire
Internal wind (normal color)
Term
Flaccid
Definition
Exhausted qi and blood (pale body)
Extreme heat injuring fluids (red body)
Kidney yin deficiency with heat (deep red body)
Term
Long
Definition
Blazing Heart Fire Phlegm-fire in the Heart
Term
Short
Definition
Spleen yang deficiency, internal cold (pale body)
Heat stirring Liver wind (red body)
Insufficiency of body fluids due to excess heat (red w/coat) Deficiency heat (red body without coating)
Spleen yang deficiency + damp phlegm (pale with slippery)
Term
Horizontal cracks
Definition
yin deficiency
Term
Cracks like ice floes
Definition
yin deficiency from old age
Term
Irregular cracks
Definition
stomach yin deficiency
Term
Transverse cracks on the sides
Definition
spleen qi deficiency
Term
Very deep central crack with other small cracks
Definition
kidney yin
deficiency with heat
Term
Transverse cracks behind the tip
Definition
lung yin deficiency
Term
Vertical cracks in the center
Definition
heart yin deficiency or blazing
heart fire
Term
Loose
Definition
Interior excess heat (red body)
Phlegm-fire clouding the heart (red with slippery coat) Heart qi deficiency (pale body)
Term
Deviated
Definition
Exterior wind invading channels (normal color) Interior liver wind (red or normal color)
Heart qi deficiency (pale body)
Term
Numb
Definition
Heart blood deficiency (pale body)
Liver wind (red or normal color)
Wind phlegm (slippery coating)
Term
Moving
Definition
Heart fire and internal wind (red body)
Spleen heat with exhaustion of body fluids (red and dry)
Term
Quivering
Definition
Spleen qi deficiency (pale body)
Extreme heat generating internal wind (red body)
Collapse of heart and spleen qi (pale body) Collapse of yang (pale and thin body)
Term
Rolled
Definition
Heat from excess (tip rolled over) Deficiency heat (tip rolled under)
Term
Tooth-marked
Definition
Spleen Qi Deficiency
Term
Ulcerated
Definition
Blazing heart fire (red body)
Heart heat from kidney yin deficiency (red and peeled) Spleen and kidney heat (red body)
Term
Sore-covered
Definition
Heat toxin in heart channel (red body) Deficiency heat (red and peeled body)
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