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Tongue Body
Tongue
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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