Tongue

Question 1

what is the tongue coat mnemonic

Answer 1

TCMRTD

Question 2

what does TCMRTD stand for

Answer 2

Thickness
Color
Moisture
Rooted
Turbidity
Distribution

Question 3

what is the tongue body mnemnic

Answer 3

TCMWHTS

Question 4

what does TCMWHTS stand for

Answer 4

Thickness
Color
Movement
Width
Hue
Texture
Shape

Question 5

what does a thick coat mean

Answer 5

internal or external
white means cold
yellow means heat

Question 6

what does a thin coat mean

Answer 6

deficiency

yin xu or xue xu

Question 7

yellow and thick coat means

Answer 7

damp and heat

Question 8

white and thick coat means

Answer 8

cold and damp/phlegm

Question 9

a white coat means

Answer 9

normal
cold (excess or deficiency: yang xu)

Question 10

a yellow coat means

Answer 10

heat (excess or deficiency: yin xu)

Question 11

a grey coat means

Answer 11

chronic excess
+ yellowish means chronic heat
+thick and white means chronic cold damp

Question 12

a black coat means

Answer 12

severe pathology

Question 13

a brown coat means

Answer 13

constipation due to heat (jin ye xu, yin xu, xue xu)

Question 14

too moist of a coat means

Answer 14

pathological fluid (damp, water from KD yang xu, phlegm)

Question 15

tood ry of a coat means

Answer 15

jin ye xu, xue xu, yin xu

Question 16

a rooted tongue coat means

Answer 16

normal

Question 17

an unrooted tongue coat means

Answer 17

SP qi xu and damp

Question 18

a translucent coat looks like

Answer 18

thicker and sticky

Question 19

a turbid coat looks like

Answer 19

greasy and sticky

Question 20

what does a turbid coat mean

Answer 20

phlegm, damp heat, food stagnation, heat toxin

Question 21

what are the types of tongue coat distribution

Answer 21

peeled, geographic, mirror

Question 22

what does a peeled coat mean

Answer 22

patches of no coat

heat from jin ye xu or yin xu

Question 23

what does a geographic coat mean

Answer 23

patches of coat

chronic heat, damp heat, yin xu

Question 24

what does a mirror coat mean

Answer 24

glossy
most likely red body with no coat and moisture
heat pathogen into interior (yang and xue)
damages yin
surging pulse

Question 25

what does a thick body mean

Answer 25

excess pathogens, damp ,heat, dampheat, stagnation

Question 26

what does a thin body mean

Answer 26

yin xu or xue xu

Question 27

what does a red body mean

Answer 27

heat that is excess or deficient, internal or external liver fire large intestine heat etc yin xu

Question 28

what does a blue body mean

Answer 28

cold

Question 29

what does a purple body mean

Answer 29

qi stagnation and blood stasis

Question 30

what does a crimson body mean

Answer 30

excess external heat pathogen going into the interior (ying and xue)

Question 31

what does an orange body mean

Answer 31

usually on the lateral aspect pertaining to the liver'liver xue xu and qi stagnation

Question 32

what does a pale hue mean

Answer 32

deficiency

Question 33

what does a dusky hue mean

Answer 33

excess

Question 34

what does the movement of the tongue indicate

Answer 34

wind, internal wind could be deviation, tremor, inability to fully extend, severe deficiency with inability to extend extreme flaccidity MS, parkinson's, post stroke

Question 35

what do prickles on the tongue mean

Answer 35

pointed and red sometimes on the tip heat rising to the upper jiao heart or lung fire

Question 36

what do macules on the tongue mean

Answer 36

dome shaped, wider, rounder | usually blood stasis

Question 37

what do cracks on the tongue mean

Answer 37

yin xu, spleen xu, liver xu, heart problems

Question 38

what do yin xu cracks look like

Answer 38

deeper, wider deep horizontal cracks like iceburgs

Question 39

what do spleen xu cracks look like

Answer 39

more superficial horizontal cracks in the MJ qi deficiency in MJ/spleen

Question 40

what do liver racks look like

Answer 40

on the edges | problems with liver qi, yin, and blood

Question 41

what do heart cracks look like

Answer 41

goes all the way to the tip | heart/shen problems

Question 42

what do cracks from the MJ to UJ mean

Answer 42

problems between the stomach to the esophagus

Question 43

what does a swollen tongue mean

Answer 43

damp qi stagnation in the middle jiao it means damp on the lateral sides itm eans liver qi

Question 44

what are the lateral changes of shape

Answer 44

swollen on sides (chong tongue) liver problems: qi stagnation scalloping/roughness: spleen qi xu and damp roughness is usually liver qi creating heat

Question 45

what do changes of shape at the tip of the tongu emean

Answer 45

problems with heart and shen

Question 46

what do the valleys in the tongue mean

Answer 46

in the middle it may mean sp/st xu