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Asian 1
Tongue
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| color under tongue | supposed to be color of veins |
| absent coating | yin deficiency |
| dry tongue | if pt drinks alot of water then habe heat |
| red tongue | heat |
| pale bright tongue | normal |
| vert crack | SP qi deficiency |
| scalloped tongue | SP qi deficiency dampness, no appetite, fatigue, sore muscles, |
| yin deficiency | red peeled no coat, snow flake, indentation |
| back of tongue | SI, LI, KD, BL |
| center of tongue | SP, ST |
| Tip of tongue | LU, HT |
| Left side of Tongue | LV |
| Right Side of Tongue | GB |
| red tip of tongue | heat in HT |
| posterior to tip of tongue | LU |
| Purple tongue | blood stagnation |
| quivering tongue | SP qi deficiency |
| cold | pale tongue, pale urine, pain |
| SP qi deficincy | quivering tongue, no appetite, flaccid mm, vertical crack down center of the tongue, poor diet, arguing while eating, eating too fast |
| tongue reflects | state of organs in body |
| six area of tongue examination | spirit, shape,body color,coating/moss/fue, moisture, surface features |
| healthy tongue | bright pale red body, thin well rooted white coating, even moisture, even soft shape no movement, no cracks, no prickles |
| spirit of the tongue | overall condition of tongue, look like it has life |
| healthy shape | even soft shape no movement |
| shapes | swollen, tooth marked/scalloped, thin, quivering, cracks, ulcers, prickles, deviated, curling under, curling up, long, short |
| body color | indicates Hot/Cold, Yin/Yang deficiencies and stagnations, normal, red, pale, purplish, sublingual, purple |
| coating | normal, thickness, color |
| moisture | indicates state of fluids in the body,dry, wet |
| surface features 3 methods | division by specific organ, by 3 burners, movement of pathogen |
| swollen | excess |
| tooth marked/scalloped | damp condition secondary to SP qi deficiency |
| thin | deficiency condition |
| quivering | Spleen qi deficiency |
| cracks | congenital weakness, and/or yin deficiency |
| ulcers | indicate excessive heat or toxic heat |
| prickles | location tells specifically which organs, red prickles heat, purple prickles stagnation |
| deviated | wind condition relating to LV |
| curling under | HT deficiency |
| Curling Up | Heart excessive |
| long | heat, usually in HT, red too |
| short | cold condition (contract) |
| normal body color | bright pale red |
| red | heat |
| pale | cold or blood deficiency |
| purplish | blood stagnation |
| sublingual veins normal | same as underside of the tongue or thin and slightly blue like veins on wrist |
| sublingual veins swollen engorged purple | blood stagnation |
| normal coating | thin white even and well rooted, dirty dampness, sent up from ST |
| thickness of coating | strength of pathogen or degree of deficiency |
| thick coating | excess |
| absent peeled coating | deficiency (yin) |
| color of coating | yellow heat, white cold |
| dry tongue | deficiency of fluids in body |
| wet tongue | excess of fluids in body |
| 8 principles of tongue diagnosis | exterior, interior, deficiency, excess, heat, cold, yang, yin |
| exterior | skin, mm and channels, front third or edge of tongue, tongue coat concentrated in these areas |
| interior | central surface of tongue |
| deficiency | absence or insufficiency of coating |
| excess | thick coating |
| heat | yellow |
| cold | white |
| yang | tongue coat not important |
| yin | deficiency absence of tongue coat |
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