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Tongue

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