Tongue Diagnosis Flashcards
What medicine causes peeled in patches (tend to injure ST yin)
Antibiotics
What medicine causes red and swollen (after 1 month)
Corticosteroids
What medicine causes Tongue tip to become red (after prolonged and continued use)
Bronchodilators
What medicine causes peeled (reflecting yin deficiency)
Diuretics
What medicine causes red points, makes the tongue body thinner, peeled (after prolonged use)
Anti-inflamatory
What medicine causes very thick brown or even black and dry coating
Anti-neoplastics
Tongue Body Color: Pale and slightly dry
Blood deficiency
Tongue Body Color: pale and wet
Yang Xu
Tongue Body Color: pale and bright or shiny
Qi and Blood deficiency particularly of SP/ST
Tongue Body Color: red with coat
Heat in nutritive or blood levels
Tongue Body Color: red w/o coat
Yin deficiency with Heat
Tongue Body Color: red and wet
Heat with damp retention
Tongue Body Color: red and dry
Deficient heat and body fluid exhaustion
Tongue Body Color: red and shiny
ST/KD yin deficiency
Tongue Body Color: red with red points or spots
Blood stasis with heat
Tongue Body Color: red with prickles
Heat in ying level or UB or LB
Tongue Body Color: red with purple spots in center
Blood stasis and Heat in ST
Tongue Body Color: red and peeled
Heat from ST/KD yin deficiency
Tongue Body Color: red and purple
Heat and blood stasis
Tongue Body Color: red and distended purple
Extreme Heat with blood stasis and toxin from alcohol injuring HT
Tongue Body Color: deep red
LU or HT yin def
Tongue Body Color: deep red with a dry center
ST fire blazing, ST yin deficiency with heat
Tongue Body Color: reddish purple
blood stasis from internal heat
Tongue Body Color: reddish purple and distended
Extreme Heat with blood stasis and toxin from alcohol injuring HT
Tongue Body Color: bluish purple
blood stasis from internal cold
Tongue Body Color: bluish purple and moist
blood stasis from internal LV/KD deficiency. Cold stiffening tendons/bones
Tongue Body Color: blue
severe internal cold with blood stasis
Tongue Body Color: blue without coat
severe internal cold with stasis and exhaustion of blood
Tongue Body Color: blue in central surface
SP yang deficiency with phlegm retention in the chest
Tongue Body Color: blue in pregnancy
danger of imminent miscarriage
Tongue Body Color: blue with distended veins on underside of tongue
Deficiency, qi stagnation, or blood stasis if dark
Tongue Body Shape: thin and red
Yin deficiency
Tongue Body Shape: thin and pale
Blood deficiency
Tongue Body Shape: whole tongue swollen (2)
SP/KD yang def with damp
SP/St damp heat
Tongue Body Shape: whole tongue swollen and red (2)
HT/ST Heat
Alcoholic toxic Toxin
Tongue Body Shape: swollen on edges
SP qi/yang def
Tongue Body Shape: swollen on sides
Ascendant LV yang or LV fire
Tongue Body Shape: Swollen tip red color
HT fire blazing
Tongue Body Shape: swollen tip normal color
Ht qi def
Tongue Body Shape: swollen between tip and center
LU qi def with phlegm retention
Tongue Body Shape: swollen along central crack and red
Ht fire
Tongue Body Shape: swollen along central crack and normal color
Ht qi def
Tongue Body Shape: swollen along half of the tongue
Weakness of the channels
Tongue Body Shape: localized swelling on one side
Def or Qi stagnation in chest
Tongue Body Shape: half tongue swollen
LU qi def
Tongue Body Shape: Hammer shaped
ST, SP, KD def
Tongue Body Shape: stiff
Blazing HT fire
Tongue Body Shape: stiff and red or dark red
Exterior heat invading PC
Tongue Body Shape: stiff and red
Heat injuring Body fluids
Tongue Body Shape: stiff and normal colored
Internal wind
Tongue Body Shape: flaccid and pale body
Exhausted qi and blood
Tongue Body Shape: flaccid and red body
Extreme Heat injuring fluids
Tongue Body Shape: flaccid and limp, deep red
KD yin def with heat
Tongue Body Shape: Long (2)
Blazing Ht fire
HT phlegm-fire
Tongue Body Shape: Short and pale body (2)
Sp yang def
Internal cold
Tongue Body Shape: Short and red body
Heat stirring LV wind
Tongue Body Shape: short and red body with coat
Body fluid insufficiency due to excess heat
Tongue Body Shape: short and red body without coat
Def Heat
Tongue Body Shape: short and pale with slippery coat
SP yang def with damp and phlegm
Tongue Body Shape: cracked horizontal
Yin def
Tongue Body Shape: cracked like ice floes
Yin def from old age
Tongue Body Shape: cracked and irregular
ST yin def
Tongue Body Shape: cracked and transverse on the side
SP qi/yin def
Tongue Body Shape: cracked and vertical in center
SP qi def
Tongue Body Shape: cracked and long vertical reaching tip
HT, emotional disturbances
Tongue Body Shape: deep central crack with small cracks
KD yin def with heat
Tongue Body Shape: Loose w/ red body
interior excess heat
Tongue Body Shape: Loose with red body and a slippery coat
Phlegm fire clouding HT
Tongue Body Shape: loose with Pale body
HT qi def
Tongue Body Shape: deviated with normal color
Exterior wind invading channels
Tongue Body Shape: deviated with red or normal color
Interior LV wind
Tongue Body Shape: deviated with pale body
HT qi def
Tongue Body Shape: numb with pale body
HT blood def
Tongue Body Shape: numb with red or normal color
LV wind
Tongue Body Shape: numb with slippery coat
SP heat with body fluids exhaustion
Tongue Body Shape: moving with red body
HT fire and internal wind
Tongue Body Shape: moving with red and dry body
SP heat with body fluids exhaustion
Tongue Body Shape: quivering with pale body
SP qi def
Tongue Body Shape: quivering with red body
Extreme heat generating internal wind
Tongue Body Shape: quivering with pale body (2)
HT and SP collapse
Tongue Body Shape: quivering with pale and thin
Yang collapse
Tongue Body Shape: tip rolled over
Excess Heat
Tongue Body Shape: tip rolled down
Def heat
Tongue Body Shape: tooth marked
SP qi def
Tongue Body Shape: Ulcerated with red body (2)
HT fire blazing
SP and KD heat
Tongue Body Shape: ulcerated with red and peeled
HT heat from KD yin def
Tongue Body Shape: sore covered with red body
Heat toxin in HT
Tongue Body Shape: sore covered with red and peeled
Def heat
Shang Han Tongues: Tai yang body
unchanged
Shang Han Tongues: tai yang coating
thin and white
possibly more in the center or in the front third
Shang Han Tongues: Yang Ming body
red
Shang Han Tongues: Yang Ming coating
yellow, thick and dry