Maciocia Tongues

Question 1

Pale tongue

Answer 1

deficiency of yang or deficiency of blood

Question 2

Red tongue with coating

Answer 2

Full heat

Question 3

Red tongue, no coating

Answer 3

empty heat

Question 4

Red tongue, red tip

Answer 4

Heart fire ore heart empty heat

Question 5

Red tongue, red sides

Answer 5

Liver fire or GB heat

Question 6

Deep red tongue

Answer 6

Condition more severe

Question 7

Purple tongue

Answer 7

Blood stasis

Question 8

Reddish-purple tongue

Answer 8

heat & blood stasis

Question 9

Pale, bluish-purple tongue

Answer 9

Cold & blood stasis

Question 10

Purple tongue, purple sides

Answer 10

Liver blood stasis

Question 11

Purple tongue, purple center

Answer 11

Blood stasis in Stomach

Question 12

Purple tongue, purple on sides for women

Answer 12

Blood stasis in uterus

Question 13

Thin & pale tongue

Answer 13

Chronic blood deficiency

Question 14

Thin & red tongue

Answer 14

Yin deficiency

Question 15

Swollen & pale tongue

Answer 15

Damp from Yang deficiency

Question 16

Swollen sides wider & pale

Answer 16

Spleen deficiency

Question 17

Swollen in front third

Answer 17

Phlegm in Lungs

Question 18

Swollen & red or normal colored

Answer 18

Damp-heat

Question 19

Swollen w/red sides

Answer 19

Liver fire

Question 20

Tooth marked tongue

Answer 20

Spleen qi deficiency

Question 21

Flaccid tongue

Answer 21

deficiency of body fluids

Question 22

Cracked tongue

Answer 22

Full-heat or deficiency of yin

Question 23

Short horizontal cracks

Answer 23

Stomach yin deficiency

Question 24

Center crack reaching tip

Answer 24

Heart pattern

Question 25

Short transversal cracks on sides

Answer 25

Chronic Spleen qi deficiency

Question 26

Long tongue

Answer 26

Tendency to heat (heart heat)

Question 27

Short, pale & wet tongue

Answer 27

Cold

Question 28

Short, red & peeled tongue

Answer 28

Yin deficiency

Question 29

Deviated tongue

Answer 29

Interior wind

Question 30

Stiff tongue

Answer 30

Interior wind

Question 31

Quivering tongue

Answer 31

Spleen qi deficiency

Question 32

Thick tongue coating

Answer 32

Pathogenic factor (exterior or interior): exterior wind, damp, cold, retention of food, phlegm, heat, fire

Question 33

No tongue coating

Answer 33

Deficiency of Stomach Yin and/or Kidney yin

Question 34

White coating

Answer 34

Cold (unless it is thin and white, which is normal)

Question 35

Yellow coating

Answer 35

Full heat

Question 36

Gray and black coating, wet & dry

Answer 36

Cold or extreme heat

Question 37

Tongue is too wet

Answer 37

Yang qi not T&T fluids

Question 38

Tongue is dry

Answer 38

Full heat or empty heat

Question 39

Tongue is sticky or slippery

Answer 39

Damp or phlegm