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Tongue Diagnosis
Match tongue symptoms with conditions
| Symptom | Condition |
|---|---|
| Pale color | Generally deficient |
| Red color | Heat excess |
| Deep Red color | Blood and Heat and Yin, really sick people, like ebola |
| Blue color | Cold |
| Red color at tip | Heart fire or heart empty heat |
| Cracked, different colors, patchy | Severe mental illness |
| Missing patch in the middle where protective qi is missing | Cancer/chemo |
| Thin white coating | Normal |
| No coating or cracked | Yin deficiency |
| Thick gross tongue | Pneumonia |
| White coating | Excess damp or cold, excess yin |
| Yellow coating | Excess heat |
| Rooted coating | Fine/okay |
| Unrooted coating | Deficient yang causing accumulation of stuff |
| Greasy thick yellow coating | Excess heat |
| Greasy thick white coating | Excess cold |
| Too wet | Yang deficient dampness, not processing fluids properly |
| Too dry | Yin deficiency ( or heat, depending on coating) |
| Thin shape | Deficiency in general |
| Thin, no coating, and red | Yin deficiency (inc night sweats) |
| Scalloped edges | Damp, spleen qi deficiency |
| Cracked | Yin deficiency or heat excess |
| Swollen, yellow coating, wet, red | Damp heat |
| Pink or light red color | Normal |
| Reddish purple color | Heat and blood stagnation |
| Purple color | Can be both heat and cold conditions |
| Dark reddish purple color, dry tongue | Depleted fluids due to excess heat |
| Light purple, bluish or greenish purple coor | Cold and blood stagnation |
| Red (darker) color with thick yellow coat or swollen buds | Excess heat |
| Red (darker) color with bright shiny coat, little coat, or no coat | Deficient heat |
| Pale, thin tongue | Qi and blood deficiency |
| Pale color, moist tender and swollen tongue | Yang cold |
| Stiff | Excess (often internal wind) |
| Swollen and pale | Qi deficiency |
| Swollen and bright red and painful | Heart and spleen Heat (or alcohol consumption) |
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