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Tongue body study
Tongue body study K.EWC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Tongue's body color reflects the state of? | The Yin organs and blood |
| The tongue's coat reflects the state of? | The Yang organs as well as Excess or Deficient and Heat or Cold conditions |
| A pale tongue is? | Yang, Blood or Qi deficient |
| A red tongue indicates? | Heat |
| A tongue absent a coat is always? | Yin deficient |
| A Normal tongue is? | Pale red |
| A pale and wet tongue is? | Yang deficient pale = deficient, wet = Yang |
| A pale and dry tongue is? | Blood deficient, Pale = deficient, dry = blood |
| A slightly pale tongue with normal moisture is? | Qi deficient |
| A tongue with a thick rooted coat indicates? | Excess |
| A tongue without root or a coat indicates? | Deficiency |
| A tongue which is pale and dry over the liver areas is? | Liver blood deficient. Pale = deficient,Dry = blood deficient, over liver = liver organ. |
| A tongue which is red in the center of the tongue indicates. | Stomach heat or Stomach fire. |
| A tongue which is red on the entire sides indicates? | Liver heat |
| A tongue which is red over the first one third of the body is? | Lung heat |
| Little grains on the tongue which are pale red are called points and are considered? | Normal |
| Little red grains on the tongue indicate? | Heat. |
| A purple tongue indicates? | Blood stasis a co-sign is complaint of stabbing pain by the patient |
| A reddish purple tongue indicates? | Blood stasis due to heat condensing the blood |
| A bluish purple tongue indicates? | Blood stasis due to cold congealing the blood |
| A tongue which is purple on the entire sides in the area of the liver is? | Liver blood stasis or Uterine blood stasis |
| A tongue which is purple in the center of the tongue possibly indicates? | A bleeding ulcer |
| A tongue which is thin is? | Deficient in blood or Yin |
| A thin tongue which is blood deficient presents as? | Thin, Pale and dry |
| A thin tongue which is Yin deficient presents as? | Thin, reddish and without a coat. |
| A swollen tongue always indicates? | A excess condtion of damp or phlegm |
| A stiff tongue is due to? | Internal wind, if purpleish it's blood stasis |
| A flabby or crumpled tongue indicates? | A lack of body fluids or blood |
| A long tongue indicates | Heat in the body |
| A short tongue which is Pale and wet is? | Severly cold or Yang deficient |
| A short tongue which is Red and without a coat is? | Severly Yin deficient |
| True or False: Almost all tongue cracks are a sign of Yin deficieny? | True |
| Tongue cracks which are horizontal show? | Yin deficiency |
| Tongue cracks which are irregular show? | Stomach Yin deficiency |
| A central short crack in the midline of the tongue indicates? | Stomach Yin deficiency AKA stomach crack |
| A long central crack which runs to the tip of the tongue indicates? | A difficulty dealing with emotional stress or constitutional tendency to Heart conditons. AKA Heart crack |
| Short transverse cracks on the side of the tongue indicate? | Spleen Yin deficiency |
| A deviated tongue (off to one side) indicates? | Internal wind in the elderly and Heart deficiency in young persons. |
| A moving tongue with large amplitude (big movements) indicates? | Internal wind |
| A quivering tongue with small amplitude (trembling) indicates? | Spleen Qi deficiency |
| A tongue with teeth marks on the side indicates? | Spleen Qi deficiency |
| A normal tongue coat is? | White and thin enough to see the tongues body color through |
| We check Pt. history and balance other signs because? | The tongue coat can change rapidly |
| The color of the tongue's body relates to? | Yin organs |
| The coating of the tongue relates to? | the Yang organs |
| A tongue wich is wet is? | Yang deficient |
| A tongue which is dry is? | blood deficient |
| A tongue coat which is thick and white shows? | Cold damp or cold phlegm |
| A tongue coat which is yellow shows? | Heat such as infection |
| A tongue which is black shows? | A bad or critical condition. |
| A dry black tongue indicates? | Heat |
| A wet black tongue indicates? | Cold. |
| A sticky or slippery coating indicates? | dampness or phlegm |
| A sticky coating is primarily? | Phlegm |
| A slippery coating is primarily? | Dampness |
| A moldy coating indicates? | Dampness or phlegm with stomach Yin deficiency |
| A tongue with a orange body color indicates? | sever blood deficiency |
| A tongue with red points and a red tip is indictive of? | External wind heat |
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