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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 |
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Created by:
tybo
on 2009-08-09