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Tongue (HB Kim pg.38-42) Flashcards

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Red

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Heat Syndromes

Interior Excess or Xu

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Pale

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Cold syndromes caused by Yang Qi Xu

Qi & Blood Xu

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Deep Red

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Extreme Heat

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Blue Purple

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Blood Stasis d/t Heat or Cold

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Deep Blue-Purple, Dry and Lusterless

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Blood Stasis d/t Heat

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Purplish Spots on tongue Surface

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Blood Stasis

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Swollen delicate in quality, pale in color, teethmarks

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Sp or K Yang Xu producing harmful water

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Swollen Deep Red in Color, occupying the entire space of the mouth

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Excessive Heat in H or Sp

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Thin Pale

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Qi and Blood Xu

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Thin, Deep Red, Dry

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Fire d/t Yin Xu

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Cracked Deep Red

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Excess Heat

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Cracked Pale

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Blood Xu

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cracked, not deep and remain there all the time unchanged

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Cracked Normal

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  • Internal Accumulation of pathogenic Heat

- The more severe the pathogenic Heat is, the more enlarged and profuse the thorns will be

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Thorny Red

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Exogenus: - Invasion by pathogenic Heat

              - Retention of turbid phlegm in the interior
              - Excessive pathogenic Heat consuming body fluids
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Rigid

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Endogenous: Wind-stroke or Early signs of windstroke

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Rigid

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Extreme Qi and Blood Xu or Consumption of Yin Fluids

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Flaccid

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Qi & Blood Xu

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Cracked Normal

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Yin Collapse

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Flaccid, Deep Red

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Thin tongue coating

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  • Superficial portion

- Xu of Anti-pathogenic Qi

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Thick Tongue Coating

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  • Deeper progression

- Retention of Food, Damp

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Dry Tongue Coating

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  • Consumption of Body Fluids

- Excess Heat, or Yin Xu Heat

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Excessive Moisture, saliva dribbles (slippery) tongue coating

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Harmful Water and Damp

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Sticky (hard to srub, greasy) tongue coating

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Retention of Damp, Phlegm, Food

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Granular (coarse & soybean curds, easily scrubbed, pasty) tongue coating
- Excessive Yang Heat brings turbid ST Qi upward | - Retention of Phlegm or Food
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Partially Peeled tongue coating
Consumption of St Qi and Yin, or K Yin
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Entire tongue coating peeled (mirror, glossy)
Exhaustion of St Yin, Severe damage to St Qi
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Tongue coating Thin White
exterior Cold or normal
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Tongue coating Thick White
Interior Cold
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Yellow tongue coating
Interior heat | -the deeper yellow coating is the more the severe the pathogenic Heat is
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Light Yellow Tongue Coating
Mild Heat
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Deep Yellow
Severe Heat
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Burnt Yellow
Accumulation of Heat
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Grey Tongue Coating
Interior Heat, Cold or Damp
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Grey Yellowish and Dry tongue coating
Interior Excessive Heat
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Grey Whitish & Moist tongue coating
Retention of Cold or Damp | -Can develop to greyish or black
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Black tongue coating
Extreme Interior condition: Extreme heat or extreme cold | - usually progression of Yellow or Grey
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Black, Yellowish and Dry tongue coating possibly with thorn
Extreme Heat
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Black Pale and Slippery
Excessive Cold d/t Yang Xu
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Peeled in Patches (tend to injure St Yin), black hairy tongue
Antibiotics
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red and swollen (after about a month of administration)
Corticosteroids
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tongue tip to become red (after prolonged and continued use)
Bronchodilators
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peeled (reflecting Yin Xu)
Diuretics
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red points, make the tongue body thinner, peeled (after prolonged use)
Anti-Inflammatory
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very thick brown or even black and dry coating
Anti-neoplastics (cytotoxic drugs)
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purplish reddish, distended tongue body
Extreme heat with Blood Stasis and toxin from alcohol injuring Heart
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Purple bluish tongue body
Blood Stasis from internal Cold
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Stiff tongue body
Blazing Heart Fire
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Stiff, red, or dark red tongue body
Exterior heat invading P
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Stiff Red
Heat injuring Body Fluids
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Stiff Normal color
Internal Wind
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Flaccid pale body
Exhaustion of Qi and Blood
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Flaccid Red Body
Extreme heat injuring fluids
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flaccid, limp, deep red
Kidney Yin Xu with Heat
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Long tongue body
Blazing heart fire, Heart Phlegm-Fire
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Short pale tongue body
Sp Yang Xu, Internal Cold
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Short Red body
Heat stirring Liver Wind
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Short red body with coat
Body fluid insufficiency due to excess Heat
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Short Red body without coat
Xu Heat
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Short Pale with slippery coat
Sp Yang Xu with Damp & Phlegm
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Horizontal cracks
Yin Xu
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Cracked like ice floes
Yin Xu from Old Age
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Cracked Irregular
St Yin Xu
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Cracked transverse on the sides
Sp Qi/Yin Xu
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Cracked Vertical in center
Sp Qi Xu
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Cracked long vertical reaching tip
Heart, emotional disorders
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Cracked transverse behind tip
Prior Lu Disease, present Lu Yin Xu
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Cracked Deep Central & small cracks
Kidney Yin Xu with Heat
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Numb pale body
Heart Blood Xu
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Numb red or normal color
Liver Wind
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Numb slippery coat
Wind-Phlegm
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Tip rolled over
excess heat
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tip rolled under
Xu Heat
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Excessive wetness with an oily appearance
Yang Xu | Damp-Cold Internal or External Origin
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Slippery White
Pathogen is beginning to go into the interior
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Slippery Greasy
Damp-Phlegm
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Slippery Greasy Thick
Damp-Phlegm retention of Cold
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white and slightly slippery coating on the right side
Interior/Exterior | -Half & Half
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red tongue body with white coating on the tip only
Interior/Exterior | -Half & Half
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White coating on the tip black/grey coating on the root
Interior/Exterior | -Half & Half

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