Tongue (HB Kim pg.38-42) Flashcards
Red
Heat Syndromes
Interior Excess or Xu
Pale
Cold syndromes caused by Yang Qi Xu
Qi & Blood Xu
Deep Red
Extreme Heat
Blue Purple
Blood Stasis d/t Heat or Cold
Deep Blue-Purple, Dry and Lusterless
Blood Stasis d/t Heat
Purplish Spots on tongue Surface
Blood Stasis
Swollen delicate in quality, pale in color, teethmarks
Sp or K Yang Xu producing harmful water
Swollen Deep Red in Color, occupying the entire space of the mouth
Excessive Heat in H or Sp
Thin Pale
Qi and Blood Xu
Thin, Deep Red, Dry
Fire d/t Yin Xu
Cracked Deep Red
Excess Heat
Cracked Pale
Blood Xu
cracked, not deep and remain there all the time unchanged
Cracked Normal
- Internal Accumulation of pathogenic Heat
- The more severe the pathogenic Heat is, the more enlarged and profuse the thorns will be
Thorny Red
Exogenus: - Invasion by pathogenic Heat
- Retention of turbid phlegm in the interior - Excessive pathogenic Heat consuming body fluids
Rigid
Endogenous: Wind-stroke or Early signs of windstroke
Rigid
Extreme Qi and Blood Xu or Consumption of Yin Fluids
Flaccid
Qi & Blood Xu
Cracked Normal
Yin Collapse
Flaccid, Deep Red
Thin tongue coating
- Superficial portion
- Xu of Anti-pathogenic Qi
Thick Tongue Coating
- Deeper progression
- Retention of Food, Damp
Dry Tongue Coating
- Consumption of Body Fluids
- Excess Heat, or Yin Xu Heat
Excessive Moisture, saliva dribbles (slippery) tongue coating
Harmful Water and Damp
Sticky (hard to srub, greasy) tongue coating
Retention of Damp, Phlegm, Food
Granular (coarse & soybean curds, easily scrubbed, pasty) tongue coating
- Excessive Yang Heat brings turbid ST Qi upward
- Retention of Phlegm or Food
Partially Peeled tongue coating
Consumption of St Qi and Yin, or K Yin
Entire tongue coating peeled (mirror, glossy)
Exhaustion of St Yin, Severe damage to St Qi
Tongue coating Thin White
exterior Cold or normal
Tongue coating Thick White
Interior Cold
Yellow tongue coating
Interior heat
-the deeper yellow coating is the more the severe the pathogenic Heat is
Light Yellow Tongue Coating
Mild Heat
Deep Yellow
Severe Heat
Burnt Yellow
Accumulation of Heat
Grey Tongue Coating
Interior Heat, Cold or Damp
Grey Yellowish and Dry tongue coating
Interior Excessive Heat
Grey Whitish & Moist tongue coating
Retention of Cold or Damp
-Can develop to greyish or black
Black tongue coating
Extreme Interior condition: Extreme heat or extreme cold
- usually progression of Yellow or Grey
Black, Yellowish and Dry tongue coating possibly with thorn
Extreme Heat
Black Pale and Slippery
Excessive Cold d/t Yang Xu
Peeled in Patches (tend to injure St Yin), black hairy tongue
Antibiotics
red and swollen (after about a month of administration)
Corticosteroids
tongue tip to become red (after prolonged and continued use)
Bronchodilators
peeled (reflecting Yin Xu)
Diuretics
red points, make the tongue body thinner, peeled (after prolonged use)
Anti-Inflammatory
very thick brown or even black and dry coating
Anti-neoplastics (cytotoxic drugs)
purplish reddish, distended tongue body
Extreme heat with Blood Stasis and toxin from alcohol injuring Heart
Purple bluish tongue body
Blood Stasis from internal Cold
Stiff tongue body
Blazing Heart Fire
Stiff, red, or dark red tongue body
Exterior heat invading P
Stiff Red
Heat injuring Body Fluids
Stiff Normal color
Internal Wind
Flaccid pale body
Exhaustion of Qi and Blood
Flaccid Red Body
Extreme heat injuring fluids
flaccid, limp, deep red
Kidney Yin Xu with Heat
Long tongue body
Blazing heart fire, Heart Phlegm-Fire
Short pale tongue body
Sp Yang Xu, Internal Cold
Short Red body
Heat stirring Liver Wind
Short red body with coat
Body fluid insufficiency due to excess Heat
Short Red body without coat
Xu Heat
Short Pale with slippery coat
Sp Yang Xu with Damp & Phlegm
Horizontal cracks
Yin Xu
Cracked like ice floes
Yin Xu from Old Age
Cracked Irregular
St Yin Xu
Cracked transverse on the sides
Sp Qi/Yin Xu
Cracked Vertical in center
Sp Qi Xu
Cracked long vertical reaching tip
Heart, emotional disorders
Cracked transverse behind tip
Prior Lu Disease, present Lu Yin Xu
Cracked Deep Central & small cracks
Kidney Yin Xu with Heat
Numb pale body
Heart Blood Xu
Numb red or normal color
Liver Wind
Numb slippery coat
Wind-Phlegm
Tip rolled over
excess heat
tip rolled under
Xu Heat
Excessive wetness with an oily appearance
Yang Xu
Damp-Cold Internal or External Origin
Slippery White
Pathogen is beginning to go into the interior
Slippery Greasy
Damp-Phlegm
Slippery Greasy Thick
Damp-Phlegm retention of Cold
white and slightly slippery coating on the right side
Interior/Exterior
-Half & Half
red tongue body with white coating on the tip only
Interior/Exterior
-Half & Half
White coating on the tip black/grey coating on the root
Interior/Exterior
-Half & Half