Tongue

Question 1

Body- Pale red

Answer 1

Normal

Question 2

Body- Red

Answer 2

Full/empty heat

Question 3

Body- Crimson/deep red

Answer 3

Severe heat/interior fire

Question 4

Body- Rigid

Answer 4

Heat, PH, w-stroke

Question 5

Body- Prickles

Answer 5

Heat, fire

Question 6

Body- Moving, vibrating, deviated

Answer 6

Wind, Qi/yang XU

Question 7

Body- Cracks/fissures

Answer 7

Yin XU, XU BF, ST Qi XU

Question 8

Body- Enlarged, flabby

Pale with teeth marks

Answer 8

Qi, yang, PH-damp retention

Question 9

Body- Shrunken

Answer 9

Crimson/dry-yin XU with empty heat

Pale-yin/Qi XU

Question 10

Body-Pale

Answer 10

XU or cold (yang, Qi, blood, external/internal)

Question 11

Body- Soft-tender

Answer 11

Mild XU, or cold

Question 12

Body- Purplish blue

Answer 12

Cold

Question 13

Body- Purple

Answer 13

Qi/blood stg, with or without interior cold, yang XU, or heat

Question 14

Coat- thin

Answer 14

Superficial

Qi XU

Question 15

Coat-thick

Answer 15

Deeper progression

Retention D/food

Question 16

Coat-moist/slimy/greasy

Answer 16

Moist/excess saliva- pathogenic water/D

Question 17

Coat- grimy (as though mixed with dirt)

Answer 17

PH/D retention

Usually ST Dx

Question 18

coat- Dry/rough

Answer 18

Consumption of BF, SHI heat, Yin XU heat

Question 19

Coat- sticky/hard to scrub/greasy

Answer 19

Retention D/PH/food

Question 20

Coat-granular/easily scrubbed/pasty

Answer 20

SHI yang heat w/ upward moving ST Qi, retention of PH/food

Question 21

Coat-white thin

Answer 21

Normal, or mild invasion of W-C

Question 22

Coat- white thick

Answer 22

SHI D, C-D (moist)

D transforming to H

Question 23

Coat- yellow thin

Answer 23

W-H

Question 24

Coat- yellow thick

Answer 24

D-H

Question 25

Coat- yellow dry

Answer 25

Extreme heat consuming BF

Question 26

Coat- gray glossy

Answer 26

Retention C-D, yang XU

Question 27

Coat-peeled

Answer 27

Yin XU, Yin exhaustion, ST Qi exhausted

Question 28

Coat- black

Answer 28

Extreme heat/cold

Question 29

Tongue body=

Answer 29

Condition of zang

Question 30

Tongue coat=

Answer 30

Condition of fu

Question 31

Tongue shape

Answer 31

Condition of Qi/blood

Question 32

Spicy food

Answer 32

Red

Question 33

Smoking

Answer 33

Yellow

Question 34

Milk

Answer 34

White coat

Question 35

Antibiotics

Answer 35

Peeled

Question 36

Corticosteroids

Answer 36

Red and swollen

Question 37

NSAIDs

Answer 37

Red tip

Question 38

Cytotoxic medication

Answer 38

Red body, thick dark-yellow/brown coat

Question 39

Peptobismol

Answer 39

Black coat