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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