Tongue Diagnosis

Question 1

Describe Pale Tongue Color

Answer 1

lighter than normal

Question 2

Describe Pale Tongue (Qi & Blood Def)

Answer 2

thin tongue body and moist

Question 3

Qi Def and Yang Def may commonly show what kind of feature?

Answer 3

Pale tongue

Question 4

Describe Pale Tongue (Yang Def)

Answer 4

• puffy tongue body
• teeth mark, slippery coat

Question 5

White, thin, slippery coating indicates what syndrome?

Answer 5

Cold-Dampness

Question 6

A pale tongue with cracks indicates what?

Answer 6

Blood Def

Question 7

Describe Withered pale (depletion)

Answer 7

blood depletion with qi deplete

Question 8

Describe Red Tongue Color

Answer 8

bright, fresh red colour

Question 9

Describe Red Tongue (Excess & Def Heat)

Answer 9

Excessive:
red with dry, yellow coating

Def:
Red without coat, dry, thin, cracked

Question 10

Cracks on a deep red tongue indicates what?

Answer 10

Excessive heat

Question 11

A red tongue with no coating is manifested as?

Answer 11

Yin Deficiency

Question 12

A tongue with black, yellow, dry coating, and prickly on the surface may be seen in?

Answer 12

Consumption of body fluid due to extreme heat

Question 13

A crimson tongue with cracks indicates what syndrome? (Depletion)

Answer 13

Depletion of Yin fluid due to heat

Question 14

What is the clinical manifestation to a crimson tongue with coating?

Answer 14

Excessive pathogenic heat enters nutrient level

Question 15

What are two types of pale tongue body and their syndromes?

Answer 15

Pale and skinny = Qi Blood Def
Pale and large = Yang Def

Question 16

Describe Cyanotic Purple Color and Syndrome

Answer 16

• tongue is blue or purple
• heat in blood level or severe HT disease

Question 17

Describe Light/Dull Purple w moist white/gray coating

Answer 17

• yang def w excess yin
• qi def or qi stagnation

Question 18

Describe purple/cyanotic, thin yellow dry coating (heat, fluid, stasis)

Answer 18

heat in ying blood level cause fluid damage and blood stagnation

Question 19

Describe purple/cyanotic, swollen

Answer 19

alcohol poisoning or medication

Question 20

Syndrome of cyanosis tongue/bluish spot

Answer 20

blood stasis

Question 21

What is the meaning of a tongue in weak motion?

Answer 21

Extreme def of qi and blood

Question 22

A delicate, enlarged, and pale tongue with tooth print indicates? (Maybe combo)

Answer 22

yang def of SP or KD or a combo of both

Question 23

A peeled coating indicates what?

Answer 23

• consumption of qi and yin in the ST
• qi and blood def

Question 24

A white, thin and dry coating indicates what? (Pattern)

Answer 24

wind-heat pattern

Question 25

grayish and black coating indicates what? (Disorder)

Answer 25

severe interior heat or cold disorder

Question 26

rigid tongue w thick and greasy coating indicates what? (Meridian)

Answer 26

wind-phlegm obstructed in meridian

Question 27

an unfixed deviation of tongue indicates what? (Meridian & collaterals)

Answer 27

LR wind with phlegm obstructed the meridian and collaterals