Inspection of the tongue coat

Question 1

thick coat

Answer 1

excess, interior, entered viscera and bowels

Question 2

thin coat

Answer 2

deficient, still see the body of the tongue through

Question 3

what does the coat represent

Answer 3

Upward tide of ST steaming of SP damp, direct reflection of transforming transporting functions

Question 4

greasy fur

Answer 4

dampness / Phlegm / food stagnation

Question 5

Yellow fur

Answer 5

heat - scorched by the fire

Question 6

peeled coat

Answer 6

Yin def

Question 7

Thick slippery white coat, pale body

Answer 7

KI SP yang def

Question 8

Thickness indicates

Answer 8

how deep the evil qi is in

Question 9

Fur thin and grimy

Answer 9

insufficient Qi

Question 10

Thick and grimy fur

Answer 10

Evil Qi is in surplus

Question 11

glossy fur

Answer 11

damp and cold generally water retention due to yang def. or damp

Question 12

moist tongue

Answer 12

fluids not damaged, disorder mild

Question 13

Dry tongue

Answer 13

damage to fluids

heat patterns

Question 14

How does heat cause a dry tongue

Answer 14

the heat diseases dry and damage the fluids

Question 15

How does one get a dry tongue due to yang def?

Answer 15

inability to transform humor and moisten - generally pale white, mouth dry but no thirst or thirst w no desire to drink or Blood def. SP Qi - digestion overthinks worries,
LIV blood def. dry eyes, dull aching around joints, nails, look for the patterns

Question 16

moist tongue

Answer 16

damp patterns

Question 17

beancurd and slimy

Answer 17

means damp turbidity

Question 18

what does a beancurd and slimy tongue look like

Answer 18

Rough large petals, like soya bean curd, fur thick and loose - looks easily scraped

Question 19

If you can scrape off the beancurd, what is that telling you

Answer 19

more XS heat

Seen in serious infection or transformation of heat by food accumulating phlegm turbidity

Question 20

thick beancurd

Answer 20

XS heat

Question 21

Mouldy beancurd

Answer 21

transforms fluids into rotten turbidity, rotting of ST body

Question 22

Purulent Beancurd, what does that look like?

Answer 22

W pale red discharge, Beancurd sticky and thick like purple to sores = internal welling abscesses, looks like pus on the tongue coating

Question 23

what does a greasy tongue look like?

Answer 23

Small pellets, sticky like honey w. Thick fur in centre and thin on sides, does not disappear with scraping or patting = slimy

Question 24

What is the cause of a greasy coat - in general

Answer 24

SP yang repressed and water damp not transformed
phlegm damp
cold or heat

Question 25

Thin, yellow & slimy

Answer 25

damp heat

Question 26

Thick, yellow, slimy

Answer 26

phlegm heat

Question 27

Glossy, slimy and white

Answer 27

cold damp

Question 28

greasy yellow and dirty

Answer 28

ST SP def

Question 29

white fur generally governs

Answer 29

Exterior conditions
usually cold and damp patterns
or yang def.

Question 30

Thin white and glossy

Answer 30

externally contracted wind cold

Question 31

Tongue red, fur thin white and moist

Answer 31

externally contracted wind heat or externally contracted wind cold changing into heat -> will turn into yellow quickly

Question 32

Thin white and dry fur

Answer 32

externally contracted transforming into heat and damaging fluids

Question 33

Thick white fur generally indicates

Answer 33

Internal XS of damp turbidity and cold damp phlegm rheum

Question 34

Thick white, dry fur

Answer 34

damp turbidity transforming into Heat and damaging fluids

Question 35

Thin white and dry fur

Answer 35

externally contracted transforming into heat and damaging fluids

Question 36

White glossy, sticky and slimy fur

Answer 36

phlegm damp, sometimes heat

Question 37

Covers entire tongue = white like powder, tongue body red

Answer 37

damp heat brewing internally, trapped damp and hidden heat or beginning of an epidemic

Question 38

Dry white, fissured

Answer 38

warm disease w internal XS scorching of heat suddenly damaging fluids

Question 39

Yellow fur generally indicates

Answer 39

External evil enter interior and transformed into heat b/c scorching heat evil
interior patterns and heat patterns

Question 40

What are the 3 kinds of evil heat patterns which are associated with yellow fur

Answer 40

Ext. wind heat
XS heat
Interior Heat pattern

Question 41

Thin yellow fur - cause

Answer 41

Has transformed from white fur

Due to wind heat in exterior of wind cold in exterior transforming into heat

Question 42

What does grey fur govern?

Answer 42

Governs phlegm damp interior cold patterns or interior Heat patterns

Question 43

Grey and dry, red tongue

Answer 43

heat scorching fluids/ yin def. fire effulgence

Question 44

Gray moist and glossy tongue tur

Answer 44

Cold damp obstructing internally or phlegm internally

Question 45

tongue black, dry and burnt, tongue body red

Answer 45

XS heat develops internally

Question 46

Fur black, dry fissured, body Crimson, prickles

Answer 46

XS heat damaging fluids

Question 47

Thin and black coat, moist and glossy, tongue body pale white or pale purple, tender

Answer 47

yang def w cold XS

Question 48

Fur black, prickles, dry with first but not much drinking, white fur on sides body pale and tender

Answer 48

false heat and true cold