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Tongue
Coating
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| White | ext, cold syndrome due to dampness. often related to lung disease. |
| White and thin | slippery thin and white-cold ext cold syndrome |
| White thin dry | warm evil in the lung at initial stage |
| white slippery and greasy | phlegm retention, cold dampness or indigestion. |
| white and thick | cold syndrome and hot syndrome |
| white thick and putrid | seen in food retention...stomach produces head that turns to steam |
| White like piled flour, greasy | ext. turbid qi excessive heat evil spread over 3 jiao, pestilence. |
| white and rough | seen in warm disease. |
| light yellow | mild heat |
| deep yellow | severe heat |
| black yellow | exuberance |
| yellow think slippery | ext evil just entered body fluid not yet impaired by heat |
| Yellow thin dry coatin | excessive pathogen depletion of body fluid heat |
| yellow greasy and moist | damp heat in the int. |
| Blackish yellow with crack | exuberance of pathogenic heat and exhaustion of body fluid. |
| Black | deeper than gray usually transformed from grey or yellow |
| Black and dry | excessive fire and exhaustion of body fluid |
| Black and dry with crack and prickles | extreme excessive int. heat. indicating impending exhaustion of kidney yin |
| Black slippery coating | upward flow of dampness due to yand def. and excessive coldness |
| moldy | rotten-curdy like moldy rice. exhaustion of ST qi and an unfavorable prognosis |
| yellow greasy | phlegm heat or food retention |
| greasy | dampness, phlegm retention and undigested food. |
| slippery | cold damp |
| Grey | heat syndrome or cold dampness int syndrome. Seen in prolonged illness of digestive tract or dehydration |
| Grey moist | retention of phlegm int, stagnation of cold dampness |
| Grey and dry | consumption of the body fluid by escessive heat or hyperactivity of fire due to yin def caused by internal injury |
| thick | cannot see tongue serious pathogenic factors |
| thin | ext syndrome, superficial disease |