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Tongue Body Color
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pale and slightly dry | blood deficiency |
| Pale and wet | yang deficiency |
| Pale, bright and shiny | qi and blood deficiency, particularly of stomach and spleen |
| Red, with coating | Heat in the ying or blood level |
| Red without coating | Yin deficiency with heat |
| Red and wet | Heat with retention of dampness |
| Red and dry with coating | Heat from excess burning body fluids |
| Red and dry withou coating | Deficiency heat and exhaustion of bldy fluids |
| Red and shiny | Stomach and/or kidney yin deficiency |
| Red and scarlet | Lung or Heart yin vacuity |
| Red with red points or spots | Heat w/ blood stasis |
| Red with prockles | Heat in yin level or in the upper or middle burner |
| Red w/ purple spot in the center | blood stasis and heat in the stomach |
| Red and peeled | Heat from Stomach and Kidney yin deficiency |
| Dark red with a dry center | Stomach fire blazing or Stomach yin deficiency with heat |
| Reddish purple | Heat and blood stasis |
| Reddish purple and distended | Extreme heat with blood stasis and alcohol toxin injuring the heart |
| Bluish purple | Blood stasis from internal cold |
| Bluish purple and moist | Blood stasis from internal cold, stiffening the tendons and bones |
| Blue | Severe internal cold with blood stasis |
| Blue without coating | Severe internal cold with blood stasis and exhaustion of blood |
| Blue central surface | Spleen yang deficiency with retention of phlegm in the chest |
| Blue in a pregnant woman | Danger of immanent miscarriage |
| Distended sublingual veing | Deficiency and stagnation of qi |
| Dark, distended sublingual veins | Blood stasis |