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Pale
Cold syndromes caused by Yang Qi XuQi & Blood Xu
Red
Heat SyndromesInterior Excess or Xu
Deep Red
Extreme Heat
Blue Purple
Blood Stasis d/t Heat or Cold
Deep Blue-Purple, Dry and Lusterless
Blood Stasis d/t Heat
Purplish Spots on tongue Surface
Blood Stasis
Swollen delicate in quality, pale in color, teethmarks
Sp or K Yang Xu producing harmful water
Swollen Deep Red in Color, occupying the entire space of the mouth
Excessive Heat in H or Sp
Thin Pale
Qi and Blood Xu
Thin, Deep Red, Dry
Fire d/t Yin Xu
Cracked Deep Red
Excess Heat
Cracked Pale
Blood Xu
cracked, not deep and remain there all the time unchanged
Cracked Normal
NAME?
Thorny Red
Exogenus: - Invasion by pathogenic Heat - Retention of turbid phlegm in the interior - Excessive pathogenic Heat consuming body fluids
Rigid
Endogenous: Wind-stroke or Early signs of windstroke
Rigid
Extreme Qi and Blood Xu or Consumption of Yin Fluids
Flaccid
Qi & Blood Xu
Cracked Normal
Yin Collapse
Flaccid, Deep Red
Thin tongue coating
NAME?
Thick Tongue Coating
NAME?
Dry Tongue Coating
NAME?
Excessive Moisture, saliva dribbles (slippery) tongue coating
Harmful Water and Damp
Sticky (hard to srub, greasy) tongue coating
Retention of Damp, Phlegm, Food
Granular (coarse & soybean curds, easily scrubbed, pasty) tongue coating
NAME?
Partially Peeled tongue coating
Consumption of St Qi and Yin, or K Yin
Entire tongue coating peeled (mirror, glossy)
Exhaustion of St Yin, Severe damage to St Qi
Tongue coating Thin White
exterior Cold or normal
Tongue coating Thick White
Interior Cold
Yellow tongue coating
Interior heat -the deeper yellow coating is the more the severe the pathogenic Heat is
Light Yellow Tongue Coating
Mild Heat
Deep Yellow
Severe Heat