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Tongue-Body Shape Flashcards

1
Q

Soft, Supple, Extended easily, form tapers off toward tip, no cracks, not too thin/swollen, no quivers

A

Normal Body Shape

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Thin, Shrunken, Red

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Yin Def

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3
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Thin, Shrunken, Pale (CAM)

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Blood Def

CAM: Wi and Blood Def

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4
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Swollen Whole Tongue

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SP/KD Yang Def with Damp, SP/ST Damp-Heat, HT/ST Heat (red), Alcoholic toxic (red), Toxin

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5
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Swollen Edges

A

Sp Qi/Yang def

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6
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Swollen Sides

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Ascendant LV Yang or LV Fire

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7
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Swollen Tip

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HT Fire Blazing (red color) of HT Qi def (normal color)

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8
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Swollen between tip and center

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LU Qi Def with Phlegm Retention

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9
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Swollen Along Central Crack

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HT Fire (red color) or HT Qi Def (normal color)

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10
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Swollen Half of the Tongue

A

Weakness of the Channels

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11
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Swollen Localized swelling on one sides

A

Def or Qi stagnation in chest

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12
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Swollen Half surface swollen

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LU Qi Def

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13
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Swollen Hammer Shape

A

ST, SP, KD Def

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14
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Stiff

A

Blazing Ht Fire

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15
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Stiff and Red or Dark Red

A

Exterior Heat invading PC

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16
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Stiff and Red

A

Heat injuring Body Fluids

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17
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Stiff and Normal Color

A

Internal Wind

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18
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Stiff/Rigid is what sort of Pattern

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Excess

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19
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Flaccid with Pale Body (CAM too)

A

Exhausted Qi and Blood

CAM: Qi and Blood Def, Generally means extreme qi and blood def or consumption of yin fluids

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20
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Flaccid with Red Body

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Extreme Heat injuring Fluids

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21
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Flaccid, Limb, Deep Red (CAM too)

A

KD Yin Def

CAM: Yin Collapse

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22
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Long

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Blazing HT Fire, HT Phlegm fire

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23
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Short with Pale Body

A

SP Yang Def, Internal Cold

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24
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Short with Red Body

A

Heat stirring LV Wind

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25
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Short with Red body and coat

A

Body fluids insufficiency due to excess Heat

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26
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Short Red Body without coat

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Deficiency Heat

27
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Short Pale with slippery Coat

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Sp Yang Def with Damp and Phlegm

28
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Horizontal Cracks

A

Yin Def

29
Q

Cracks Like Ice Floes

A

Yin Def from Old Age

30
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Irregular Cracks

A

ST Yin Def

31
Q

Transverse Cracks on the Side

A

SP Qi/Yin Def

32
Q

Vertical Crack in the Center

A

SP Qi Def

33
Q

Long Vertical Crack reaching the Tip

A

HT, emotional disorders

34
Q

Transverse Cracks behind tips

A

Prior Lu Dz, present LU Yin Def

35
Q

Deep Central Crack and Small Cracks

A

KD yin def with Heat

36
Q

Loose w/ Red Body

A

Interior Excess Heat

37
Q

Loose with Red body, Slippery Coat

A

Phlegm-Fire clouding Ht

38
Q

Loose with Pale Body

A

HT Qi Def

39
Q

Deviated with Normal Color

A

Exterior Wind invading channels

CAM: Windstroke or early threatening signs of Wind-Stroke

40
Q

Deviated with Red body, Slippery Coat

A

Phlegm-Fire Clouding HT

41
Q

Deviated with Pale Body

A

HT Qi Def

42
Q

Numb with Pale Body

A

Ht Blood Def

43
Q

Numb with Red or Normal Color

A

LV Wind

44
Q

Numb with Slippery Coating

A

Wind-Plegm

45
Q

Moving (Amplitude) with Red Body

A

Ht Fire and Internal Wind

46
Q

Moving with Red and Dry Body

A

Sp Heat with Body Fluids Exhaustion

47
Q

Quivering (Small Amplitude) with Pale Body

A

Sp Qi Def or HT and SP Collapse

48
Q

Quivering with Red Body

A

Extreme Heat generating Internal Wind

49
Q

Quivering Pale and Thin

A

Yang Collapse

50
Q

Tip Rolled Over

A

Excess Heat

51
Q

Tip Rolled Under or Down

A

Deficiency Heat

52
Q

Ulcerated with Red Body

A

HT Fire Blazing, SP and KD Heat

53
Q

Red and Peeled

A

HT Heat, From KD Yin Def

54
Q

Sore-Covered with Red Body

A

Heat Toxin in HT

55
Q

Sore-Covered Red and Peeled

A

Deficiency Heat

56
Q

Swollen, Pale, Teethmarks (CAM only)

A

SP or KD Yang def producing harm water

57
Q

Swollen Deep Red in Color, Occupying the entire space of the mouth (CAM)

A

Excessive Heat in HT or Sp

58
Q

Swollen, Blue Purplish, Dark (CAM only)

A

Toxicosis

59
Q

Thin, Deep Red, and Dry (CAM only)

A

Fire due to Yin Def

60
Q

Crack with Deep Red (CAM only)

A

Excess Heat

61
Q

Crack Pale (CAM only)

A

Blood Def

62
Q

Thorny and Red (CAM only)

A

Internal Accumulation of Pathogenic Heat. The More severe the Pathogenic Heat is the more enlarged and profuse the thorns will be.

63
Q

Rigid (CAM only)

A

Exogenous: Invasion of the PC by Heat
Rention of Turbid Phlegm in the Interior
Excess pathogenic Heat Consuming Body
Fluids

Endogenous: Wind-Stroke or Early signs of Wind-Stroke

Tongue Diagnosis (10 decks)

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