Tongue-Body Shape

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Normal Body Shape

Question 2

Thin, Shrunken, Red

Answer 2

Yin Def

Question 3

Thin, Shrunken, Pale (CAM)

Answer 3

Blood Def

CAM: Wi and Blood Def

Question 4

Swollen Whole Tongue

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Swollen Edges

Answer 5

Sp Qi/Yang def

Question 6

Swollen Sides

Answer 6

Ascendant LV Yang or LV Fire

Question 7

Swollen Tip

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Swollen between tip and center

Answer 8

LU Qi Def with Phlegm Retention

Question 9

Swollen Along Central Crack

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Swollen Half of the Tongue

Answer 10

Weakness of the Channels

Question 11

Swollen Localized swelling on one sides

Answer 11

Def or Qi stagnation in chest

Question 12

Swollen Half surface swollen

Answer 12

LU Qi Def

Question 13

Swollen Hammer Shape

Answer 13

ST, SP, KD Def

Question 14

Stiff

Answer 14

Blazing Ht Fire

Question 15

Stiff and Red or Dark Red

Answer 15

Exterior Heat invading PC

Question 16

Stiff and Red

Answer 16

Heat injuring Body Fluids

Question 17

Stiff and Normal Color

Answer 17

Internal Wind

Question 18

Stiff/Rigid is what sort of Pattern

Answer 18

Excess

Question 19

Flaccid with Pale Body (CAM too)

Answer 19

Exhausted Qi and Blood

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

Question 20

Flaccid with Red Body

Answer 20

Extreme Heat injuring Fluids

Question 21

Flaccid, Limb, Deep Red (CAM too)

Answer 21

KD Yin Def

CAM: Yin Collapse

Question 22

Long

Answer 22

Blazing HT Fire, HT Phlegm fire

Question 23

Short with Pale Body

Answer 23

SP Yang Def, Internal Cold

Question 24

Short with Red Body

Answer 24

Heat stirring LV Wind

Question 25

Short with Red body and coat

Answer 25

Body fluids insufficiency due to excess Heat

Question 26

Short Red Body without coat

Answer 26

Deficiency Heat

Question 27

Short Pale with slippery Coat

Answer 27

Sp Yang Def with Damp and Phlegm

Question 28

Horizontal Cracks

Answer 28

Yin Def

Question 29

Cracks Like Ice Floes

Answer 29

Yin Def from Old Age

Question 30

Irregular Cracks

Answer 30

ST Yin Def

Question 31

Transverse Cracks on the Side

Answer 31

SP Qi/Yin Def

Question 32

Vertical Crack in the Center

Answer 32

SP Qi Def

Question 33

Long Vertical Crack reaching the Tip

Answer 33

HT, emotional disorders

Question 34

Transverse Cracks behind tips

Answer 34

Prior Lu Dz, present LU Yin Def

Question 35

Deep Central Crack and Small Cracks

Answer 35

KD yin def with Heat

Question 36

Loose w/ Red Body

Answer 36

Interior Excess Heat

Question 37

Loose with Red body, Slippery Coat

Answer 37

Phlegm-Fire clouding Ht

Question 38

Loose with Pale Body

Answer 38

HT Qi Def

Question 39

Deviated with Normal Color

Answer 39

Exterior Wind invading channels CAM: Windstroke or early threatening signs of Wind-Stroke

Question 40

Deviated with Red body, Slippery Coat

Answer 40

Phlegm-Fire Clouding HT

Question 41

Deviated with Pale Body

Answer 41

HT Qi Def

Question 42

Numb with Pale Body

Answer 42

Ht Blood Def

Question 43

Numb with Red or Normal Color

Answer 43

LV Wind

Question 44

Numb with Slippery Coating

Answer 44

Wind-Plegm

Question 45

Moving (Amplitude) with Red Body

Answer 45

Ht Fire and Internal Wind

Question 46

Moving with Red and Dry Body

Answer 46

Sp Heat with Body Fluids Exhaustion

Question 47

Quivering (Small Amplitude) with Pale Body

Answer 47

Sp Qi Def or HT and SP Collapse

Question 48

Quivering with Red Body

Answer 48

Extreme Heat generating Internal Wind

Question 49

Quivering Pale and Thin

Answer 49

Yang Collapse

Question 50

Tip Rolled Over

Answer 50

Excess Heat

Question 51

Tip Rolled Under or Down

Answer 51

Deficiency Heat

Question 52

Ulcerated with Red Body

Answer 52

HT Fire Blazing, SP and KD Heat

Question 53

Red and Peeled

Answer 53

HT Heat, From KD Yin Def

Question 54

Sore-Covered with Red Body

Answer 54

Heat Toxin in HT

Question 55

Sore-Covered Red and Peeled

Answer 55

Deficiency Heat

Question 56

Swollen, Pale, Teethmarks (CAM only)

Answer 56

SP or KD Yang def producing harm water

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Excessive Heat in HT or Sp

Question 58

Swollen, Blue Purplish, Dark (CAM only)

Answer 58

Toxicosis

Question 59

Thin, Deep Red, and Dry (CAM only)

Answer 59

Fire due to Yin Def

Question 60

Crack with Deep Red (CAM only)

Answer 60

Excess Heat

Question 61

Crack Pale (CAM only)

Answer 61

Blood Def

Question 62

Thorny and Red (CAM only)

Answer 62

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

Question 63

Rigid (CAM only)

Answer 63

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