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Tongue Body
Tongue
Question | Answer |
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Thin (pale body) | Blood deficiency |
Thin (red body) | Yin deficiency |
Swollen, Pale and Wet | Spleen and Kidney Yang Xu |
Swollen-pale-wet + sticky coating | Retention of dampness and/or phlegm w/ Spleen deficiency |
Swollen, Normal Color | Damp-heat in the Stomach and Spleen |
Swollen, Fresh-looking red | Heat in Stomach and Heart |
Swollen, Purple | Alcohol toxin |
Swollen, dark bluish purple | Poisoning causing blood stasis |
Swollen edges | Spleen qi deficiency |
Swollen sites | Ascendant liver yang or liver fire |
Swollen tip, red body | Heart fire blazing |
Swollen tip, normal color | Heart qi deficiency |
Half swollen | weakness of the channels |
Partly swollen on one side | deficiency or stagnation of qi in the chest |
Half surface swollen | Lung qi deficiency |
Stiff, red or dark-red body | Exterior heat invading the pericardium |
Stiff, red body | Heat injuring the fluids |
Stiff, Red tip | Heart fire blazing |
Stiff, normal color | Internal wind |
Flaccid, pale body | Exhausted qi and blood |
Flaccid, red body | Extreme heat injuring fluids |
Flaccid, deep red body | Kidney yin deficiency w/ heat |
Long, slender | Heart, usually heart fire |
Long, swollen and redder tongue tip | Phlegm fire in the heart |
Short, pale body | Spleen yang def., internal cold |
Short, red body | Heart gen. Liver Wind |
Short, red body w/ coating | Insufficiency fluids due to heat from excess |
Short, red body w/o coating | Deficiency heat |
Short, pale body, slippery coating | Spleen yang def. W/ dampness and phlegm |
Horizontal cracks | Yin deficiency |
Cracks like ice floes | Yin deficiency from aging |
Irregular cracks | Stomach yin deficiency |
Transverse cracks on sides | Spleen qi deficiency |
Vertical cracks in center | Heart yin def., or blazing heart fire |
Transverse cracks behind the tip | Lung yin deficiency |
Very deep central crack with other small cracks | Kidney yin deficiency w/ heat |
Loose, red body | Interior excess heat |
Loose, red body, slippery coating | Phlegm fire affecting the heart |
Loose, pale body | Heart qi deficiency |
Numb, pale body | Heart Blood def |
Numb, red or normal color | Liver wind |
Numb, slippery coating | Wind-phlegm |
Moving, red body | Heart fire and internal wind |
Moving, red + dry body | Spleen heat w/ exhaustion of fluids |
Quivering, pale body | Spleen qi deficiency |
Quivering, red body | Extreme heat generating wind |
Quivering, pale, thin, flaccid | Collapse of yang |
Quivering, pale body, aphasia | Collapse of Heart and Spleen qi |
Tip rolled over | Heat from excess |
Tip rolled under | Head from deficiency |
Tooth-marked | Spleen qi deficiency |
Ulcerated, red body | Heart fire blazing |
Ulcerated, red, peeled body | Heart heat from kidney yin def |
Ulcerated underneath, red body | Spleen and Kidney heat |
Covered in sores, red body | Heat toxin in Heart channel |
Covered in sores, red and peeled | Deficiency heat |