Pathologies - tongue and pulse Flashcards
Wind Cold
T: thin white coating
P: floating and tight, often slow
Wind Heat
T: thin white coating, with red on tip or sides
P: floating and rapid
Lung Qi Deficiency
T: pale tongue with a thin white coating
P: weak or empty pulses, esp. right cun position
Lung Yin Deficiency
T: red body with a dry coat or little coating and maybe cracks or peeling
P: rapid and thready
Lung Cold
T: white coat - thin in wind cold, thicker in pathogenic cold
P: tight
Lung Heat (Fire)
T: red body and thin, yellow coat
P: rapid
Lung Dryness
T: dry tongue with thin coating
P: rapid and thready
Lung Phlegm Damp Retention
T: pale with a white, sticky coat
P: wiry and slippery
Lung Phlegm - Heat Obstructing
T: red, swollen with a sticky yellow coating
P: rapid and slippery
Lung Invasion by Wind Water
T: sticky white coating
P: floating and slippery
Cold-Phlegm in Lung
T: swollen and wet with a sticky white coating
P: slow and slippery
Dry-Phlegm in Lung
T: swollen with a dry, sticky coating
P: thready and slippery
Large Intestine Damp Heat
T: red body with yellow, sticky coating
R: rapid and slippery
Large Intestine Heat - Consumption of Fluid
T: red body with thick yellow or brown, dry coat
P: full and rapid
Cold Invading the Large Intestine
T: thick, white coating
P: deep and wiry
Large Intestine Dryness
T: dry, red or pale body without coating
P: thready
Large Intestine Qi Stagnation
T: normal to slightly red sides
P: wiry on both chi positions
Large Intestine Collapse
T: pale
P: deep, fine, weak
Heart Qi Deficiency
T: pale tongue with a thin, white coating
P: weak or empty pulses
Heart Yang Deficiency
T: pale, swollen, with a white, smooth, or wet coating
P: weak and deep, often slow
Heart Blood Deficiency
T: pale and thin with a thin, white coat
P: weak and thready
Heart Yin Deficiency
T: red body with little or no coat, red tip with red papules, deep midline crack extending to tip, maybe bifurcating
P: rapid and thready
Heart Fire
T: red with a redder tip
P: full and rapid pulse
Phlegm-Fire Harassing the Heart
T: red with a yellow sticky coat
P: wiry and slippery
Phlegm Misting the Mind
T: thin, sticky coat, maybe with a swollen body
P: Slippery often slow
Heart Qi Stagnation
T: slightly purple on the sides in the anterior 1/3
P: empty but overwhelming in left cun
Heart Vessel Obstructed
T: purple sides, swollen with sticky coat
P: Wiry, choppy, knotted
Heart Blood Stagnation
T: dark purple or dark purple spots
P: thready and hesitant or with missed-beats
Full-Heat in the SI
T: red with a redder tip and a yellow coat
P: rapid and full
SI Qi Pain
T: white coating
P: deep and wiry
Si Deficient and Cold
T: pale body with a white coating
P: deep, slow, and weak
Infestation of Worms
T: depends on attack
P: slow, deep
Pericardium Heat
T: red and dry without coating
P: thready and rapid
Pericardium Blood Deficiency
T: pale, thin, slightly dry
P: Choppy or thready in left cun position
Pericardium Fire
T: red with redder and swollen tip, may have red dots and yellow coat
P: full, rapid; may overflow
Phlegm-Fire Harassing Pericardium
T: red , swollen with a yellow, dry sticky coat; deep crack in Heart
P: full, rapid, slippery or rapid, full, wiry
Pericardium Qi Stagnation
T: mildly pale-purple on sides at front
P: empty and may overflow in left cun position
Blood Stasis in Pericardium
T: purple everywhere or only on sides at fron
P: choppy, wiry, or knotted
