Tongue Coating Quality

Question 1

Slightly Moist

Answer 1

Normal

Question 2

Wet, Coat is Puddled with moister/wet/Glossy

Answer 2

Excess fluids or fluids stagnation

Question 3

Wet and White

Answer 3

Yang Def with Damp Retention

Question 4

Wet, White and Thin

Answer 4

Exterior Wind-Cold

Question 5

Dry with Heat

Answer 5

Excess Heat or Yin Def

CAM: Consumption of Body Fluids, Excess Heat, or Yin Def. Heat

Question 6

Dry with Yang Def

Answer 6

Yang def with Damp Retention, mouth is dry with no thirst, absence of thirst

Question 7

Slippery, Excessive wetness with oily appearance (CAM too)

Answer 7

Yang def, Damp-Cold internal or external origin

CAM: (Saliva Dribbles) Harmful Water and Damp

Question 8

Slippery White

Answer 8

Pathogen is beginning to go into the interior

Question 9

Slippery, Greasy

Answer 9

Damp-Phlegm

Question 10

Slippery, Greasy, Thick

Answer 10

Damp-Phlegm retention and Cold

Question 11

Slimy/Greasy, Thicker in the Center than on the edges and cannot be scrapped off (rooted)

CAM too

Answer 11

Qi cannot transform fluids and then accumulates to form Phlegm (or D-H or D-C), caused by Yang Def

CAM: Calls it Sticky: Retention of Damp, Phlegm, or Food

Question 12

Moldy (Thick and patchy (crumbly like cottage cheese) and can be scrapped off (no root)

CAM too

Answer 12

ST Heat, ST Yin Def

CAM: Granular - Excessive Yang Heat brings turbid ST Qi Upward, also Retention of Phlegm or Food

Question 13

Peeled, Geographic

CAM too

Answer 13

ST Yin Def

CAM: Consumption of ST Qi and Yin

Question 14

The coat will be on the outside around the center or on front of the tongue

Answer 14

Exterior

Question 15

Reflects the location of the factor in accordance with the tongue/organ correspon

Answer 15

Interior

Question 16

Thin White Thickness

Answer 16

Normal

Question 17

Thick Coat (CAM too)

Answer 17

Pathogenic factor, a condition of excess, The thicker the coating the stronger the Pathogen

CAM: Deeper Progression/Retention of Damp, Food

Question 18

Thin Coat (CAM too)

Answer 18

Pathogenic Factor is week, the illness is in the initial stag

CAMSuperficial portion/Def. of Anti-pathogenic Qi

Question 19

Coat cannot be scraped off.

Answer 19

Rooted. Normal is rooted

Question 20

Coat can be scraped off easily

Answer 20

Unrooted.

Question 21

Peeled Entire Tongue (CAM only)

Answer 21

Also called Mirror, Glossy: Exhaustion of ST Yin, Severe dame of ST Qi