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Tongue Coats according to Giovanni

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White or White and Thin   Wind, cold or dampness in the exterior  
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White, thin and slippery   Exterior damp-cold attack  
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White, Thick and Slippery   Interior damp or cold with retention of food, or external cold attack transforming dampness  
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White, thin and dry + Pale   Blood deficiency  
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White, Thin and dry + Interior   Yang deficiency, extreme w/ inability to move fluids to the tongue  
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White, thin and dry + Exterior (no thirst)   W-C or W-H on exterior, damage to Lung fluids  
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White, thin and dry (exterior attack)   Exterior Dry attack  
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White, thick and wet + Exterior   Attack by strong evil  
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White, thick and wet + Interior   Interior cold damp, esp. middle jiao  
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White, thick and greasy   Yang deficiency with retention of food or dampness  
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White, thick, greasy and slippery   Spleen yang deficiency with damp-cold or phlegm  
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White, thick, greasy and dry   Dampness with exhaustion of body fluids or heat  
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White, rough and cracked   Attack of summer heat injuring the qi  
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White, sticky and greasy + Interior   Dampness or phlegm from Spleen Qi or Yang Xu  
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White, Sticky and Greasy + Exterior   Externally-contracted dampness at the qi-level  
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White like powder   seasonal epidemic exterior heat, toxin in the interior, externally contracted heat in the triple burner  
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White like snow   Spleen yang exhaustion with damp-cold in the middle  
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White and moldy   Kidney and stomach yin xu, damp-toxin in the interior  
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Half-white and slippery on the right   evil is half-exterior, half-interior  
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Half-white and slippery on the left   Heat in the Liver  
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Pale Yellow   Exterior disease penetrating the interior and transforming heat  
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Yellow   Heat, Interior, or Stomach/Spleen  
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Light yellow and thick   Dampness and heat in the middle burner, stagnation of qi  
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Yellow and Slippery   Damp-heat  
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Dry yellow   Heat-injured fluids  
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Yellow root, white tip   Exterior evil transforming heat and penetrating the interior  
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Bilateral yellow strips on white coating   Acute disease: evil penetrating to the interior. Chronic disease: Heat in Stomach and Instestines  
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Thick bilateral yellow strips and yellow coating   Heat in Liver and Gallbladder. Strips greasy/slippery? Dampness in addition to heat  
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Half-yellow, half-white   Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder  
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Gray or gray, wet and slippery   Damp-cold in the Spleen  
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Gray and dry   Heat from excess  
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Black or black, sliuppery and greasy   Damp-cold in the stomach and intestines  
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Bilateral black on white, wet   Cold from deficiency in the middle burner  
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Bilateral black on white, dry   Heat from excess in the Stomach and Spleen  
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White coating, black points   Exterior pathogenic factor penetrating to the interior and transforming into heat  
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White coating, black prickles   True cold, False heat or True cold transforming into heat  
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Black in the center, white and slippery on the sides   Spleen yang deficiency with damp-cold in the interior  
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Half-white and slippery, half-yellow and black   Heat in Liver or Gallbladder  
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Yellow sides, black and greasy center   Damp-heat in the Spleen and Stomach  
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Black, dry and cracked   Exhaustion of the Kidney yin with fluids damaged by false heat. Or, true cold in the interior with yang deficiency.  
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White in center and yellow around   Exterior evil penetrating the interior and transforming heat  
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Yellow center, white around   Interior heat beginning to clear  
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White, gray and moist   Damp-cold in the interior  
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White, gray and dirty   Damp-cold or phlegm of long-standing  
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Half-white, half-gray   cold is half-exterior, half-interior  
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White and black   dampness in the Spleen  
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Yellow in center, black-slippery-greasy around   Damp-heat in the Spleen  
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Yellow on sides, black prickles in center   Yangming stage heat  
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Yellow, dry and black in center to tip   Heat in the stomach and intestines  
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White in center, gray and black around   Dampness in the Spleen  
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Yellow in the center, gray around   Damp-heat with injured fluids  
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