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TCM THEORIE - Pulse/Tongue > Tongue > Flashcards

Tongue Flashcards

1
Q

What does a puffy/swollen tongue indicate?

A

Damp

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2
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What does a thin tongue indicate?

A

Blood deficiency

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3
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What does a narrow tongue indicate?

A

Yin deficiency

Qi stagnation

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4
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What does a long tongue indicate?

A

Heart fire
Phlegm-fire in the Heart

(Log tongue pertains to the heart)

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5
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What does a short tongue indicate?

A

Yin deficiency

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6
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What does a scalloped tongue indicate?

A

Qi deficiency
Yang deficiency

(Yang deficiency causing damp; won’t have a scalloped tongue w/o puffiness)

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7
Q

What does a depressed/indented tongue indicate?

A

Qi deficiency

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8
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What does a cracked tongue indicate?

A

Yin deficiency

Qi deficiency

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9
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What does a hammer shapes tongue indicate?

A

Phlegm-fire harassing the Heart

Upward rushing of heat and insubstantial phlegm

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10
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What does a pointed tongue indicate?

A

Heart yin deficiency

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11
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What do macules/papules indicate?

A

Heat
Congealed heat
(“Bound heat”)

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12
Q

What do sores on the tongue indicate?

A

Heart fire

Deficiency fire

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13
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What does a tongue with a cleft at the tip indicate?

A

Heart yin deficiency

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14
Q

What does tongue body color indicate?

A

Hot/Cold

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15
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What does a pale tongue indicate?

A

Qi deficiency
Yang deficiency
Blood deficiency
Cold (paleness with a blue to to tinge)

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16
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What does a red tongue indicate?

A

Heat

Darker red: yin deficiency
(Brighter red: yang xs heat)

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17
Q

What does a crimson tongue indicate?

A

Fire

Racing pulse

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18
Q

What does a lavender/dusky tongue indicate?

A

Qi stagnation

Blood stasis

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19
Q

What does a dusky/purple tongue indicate?

A

Pronounced Qi stagnation

Pronounced Blood stasis

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20
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What do red spots (petechia) indicate?

A

Bound heat

Tx bound heat first

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21
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What do blue/purple spots indicate?

A

Blood stasis

Often found in Lv/Gb area

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22
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What do black spots indicate?

A

Severe heat or stasis

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23
Q

What is tongue body motility in 8 principles?

A

Yang/Yin

24
Q

What does a deviated tongue indicate?

A

Internal wind

25
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What does a quivering tongue indicate?

A

Internal wind (holding shape but shaking)

Qi deficiency (quivering and changing shape)

26
Q

What does a flicking tongue movement indicate?

A

Heart fire
Internal Wind

(Also side-effect of some anti-depressants)

27
Q

What does the inability to fully extend the tongue indicate?

Not a short tongue

A

Qi deficiency

28
Q

What does a stiff tongue indicate?

A

Phlegm obstructing the Heart orifices

29
Q

What does a rigid tongue indicate?

A

Wind stroke

30
Q

What does a flaccid/limp tongue indicate?

A

Qi deficiency

Yang deficiency

31
Q

What does tongue coat thickness indicate in 8 principles?

A

Excess/deficient

Exterior/Interior

32
Q

What does a thin tongue coat indicate?

A

Normal

33
Q

What does a thick tongue coat indicate?

A

Phlegm-Damp

34
Q

What does a peeled tongue indicate?

A

Heart Yin Deficiency

Stomach Qi Deficiency

35
Q

What does a geographic tongue coat indicate?

A

Constitutional yin deficiency

Patchy but rooted

36
Q

What does a glossy/mirror tongue coat indicate?

A

Yin deficiency

So little coat it looks shiny

37
Q

What does tongue coat texture indicate in 8 principles?

A

Excess/Deficiency

38
Q

What does a slimy greasy tongue coat indicate?

A

Phlegm

Buttered tongue

39
Q

What does a moldy/granular tongue coat indicate?

A

Phlegm with underlying deficiency

Balls of greasy coat

40
Q

What does a rooted tongue coat indicate?

A

Excess

41
Q

What does an unrooted tongue coat indicate?

A

Deficiency

42
Q

What does a dry tongue coat indicate?

A

Heat

43
Q

What does tongue coat color indicate in 8 principles?

A

Hot/Cold

Exterior/Interior

44
Q

What does a white tongue coat indicate?

A

Normal (if rooted and thin)
Cold
Cold-Damp
Phlegm-Damp

45
Q

What does a yellow tongue coat indicate?

A

Heat

Damp-Heat

46
Q

What does a grey tongue coat indicate?

A

Heat
Turbid phlegm-damp
Deficiency fire

47
Q

What does a black tongue coat indicate?

A

Critical stage of disease

Smoking

48
Q

What does tongue moisture represent in 8 principles?

A

Excess/deficiency

Hot/cold

49
Q

What does a wet tongue coat indicate?

A

Yang deficiency

Damp

50
Q

What does a dry tongue indicate?

A

Fluid deficiency

51
Q

What does a foamy tongue indicate?

A

Sp/St deficiency
Phlegm-rheum in Lung

(Fluid and air combining)

52
Q

What does a pasty tongue moisture indicate?

A

Food stagnation
Phlegm in St

(Often occurs with a greasy tongue coat)

53
Q

What do absent sublingual veins indicate?

A

Normal

54
Q

What do visible sublingual veins indicate?

A

Blood stasis

55
Q

What do distended sublingual veins indicate?

A

Pronounced blood stasis

56
Q

What does tongue body shape relate to in 8 principles?

A

Excess/deficiency

TCM THEORIE - Pulse/Tongue (11 decks)

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