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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

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  • Excessive Yang Heat brings turbid ST Qi upward

- Retention of Phlegm or Food

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Partially Peeled tongue coating

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Consumption of St Qi and Yin, or K Yin

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Entire tongue coating peeled (mirror, glossy)

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Exhaustion of St Yin, Severe damage to St Qi

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Tongue coating Thin White

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exterior Cold or normal

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Tongue coating Thick White

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Interior Cold

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Yellow tongue coating

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Interior heat

-the deeper yellow coating is the more the severe the pathogenic Heat is

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Light Yellow Tongue Coating

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Mild Heat

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Deep Yellow

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Severe Heat

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Burnt Yellow

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Accumulation of Heat

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Grey Tongue Coating

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Interior Heat, Cold or Damp

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Grey Yellowish and Dry tongue coating

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Interior Excessive Heat

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Grey Whitish & Moist tongue coating

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Retention of Cold or Damp

-Can develop to greyish or black

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Black tongue coating

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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

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Extreme Heat

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Black Pale and Slippery

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Excessive Cold d/t Yang Xu

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Peeled in Patches (tend to injure St Yin), black hairy tongue

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Antibiotics

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red and swollen (after about a month of administration)

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Corticosteroids

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tongue tip to become red (after prolonged and continued use)

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Bronchodilators

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peeled (reflecting Yin Xu)

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Diuretics

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red points, make the tongue body thinner, peeled (after prolonged use)

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Anti-Inflammatory

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very thick brown or even black and dry coating

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Anti-neoplastics (cytotoxic drugs)

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purplish reddish, distended tongue body

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Extreme heat with Blood Stasis and toxin from alcohol injuring Heart

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Purple bluish tongue body

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Blood Stasis from internal Cold

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Stiff tongue body

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Blazing Heart Fire

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Stiff, red, or dark red tongue body

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Exterior heat invading P

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Stiff Red

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Heat injuring Body Fluids

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Stiff Normal color

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Internal Wind

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Flaccid pale body

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Exhaustion of Qi and Blood

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Flaccid Red Body

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Extreme heat injuring fluids

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flaccid, limp, deep red

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Kidney Yin Xu with Heat

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Long tongue body

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Blazing heart fire, Heart Phlegm-Fire

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Short pale tongue body

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Sp Yang Xu, Internal Cold

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Short Red body

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Heat stirring Liver Wind

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Short red body with coat

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Body fluid insufficiency due to excess Heat

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Short Red body without coat

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Xu Heat

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Short Pale with slippery coat

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Sp Yang Xu with Damp & Phlegm

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Horizontal cracks

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Yin Xu

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Cracked like ice floes

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Yin Xu from Old Age

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Cracked Irregular

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St Yin Xu

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Cracked transverse on the sides

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Sp Qi/Yin Xu

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Cracked Vertical in center

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Sp Qi Xu

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Cracked long vertical reaching tip

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Heart, emotional disorders

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Cracked transverse behind tip

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Prior Lu Disease, present Lu Yin Xu

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Cracked Deep Central & small cracks

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Kidney Yin Xu with Heat

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Numb pale body

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Heart Blood Xu

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Numb red or normal color

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Liver Wind

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Numb slippery coat

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Wind-Phlegm

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Tip rolled over

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excess heat

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tip rolled under

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Xu Heat

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Excessive wetness with an oily appearance

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Yang Xu

Damp-Cold Internal or External Origin

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Slippery White

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Pathogen is beginning to go into the interior

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Slippery Greasy

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Damp-Phlegm

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Slippery Greasy Thick

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Damp-Phlegm retention of Cold

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white and slightly slippery coating on the right side

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Interior/Exterior

-Half & Half

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red tongue body with white coating on the tip only

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Interior/Exterior

-Half & Half

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White coating on the tip black/grey coating on the root

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Interior/Exterior

-Half & Half

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