w5.h2 Lesson 4: Tongue Coating Indications Flashcards

1
Q

Choose the 2 best answers.

Normal tongue coating is:

a) thin, white, even
b) sometimes wet or dry
c) sometimes sticky
d) rooted to the tongue body

A

a) thin, white, even
d) rooted to the tongue body

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2
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Choose the 3 best answers.

A tongue with a white coating that is thin may indicate:

a) normal
b) wind heat
c) early stage of a pathogenic invasion
d) wind cold, damp or cold damp

A

a) normal
c) early stage of a pathogenic invasion
d) wind cold, damp or cold damp

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3
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Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue with a white coating that is thick and greasy may indicate:

a) food stagnation or dampness
b) wind heat or wind cold
c) if also glossy, interior cold, damp or phlegm
d) blood stagnation

A

a) food stagnation or dampness
c) if also glossy, interior cold, damp or phlegm

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4
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Choose the 3 best answers.

A tongue with a white coating that is dry may indicate:

a) if also thick, early stage febrile disease
b) wind heat
c) dryness
d) wind cold

A

a) if also thick, early stage febrile disease
b) wind heat
c) dryness

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5
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Choose the best answer.

A person with an internal toxic heat (contagious epidemic) may have a tongue coating that looks:

a) thick white and greasy
b) white and powdery
c) black and white
d) thin and white

A

b) white and powdery

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6
Q

Choose the best answer.

A tongue with a slightly yellow coating that is thin may indicate:

a) excess interior heat
b) excess interior cold
c) wind cold invasion
d) wind heat invasion

A

d) wind heat invasion

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7
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A tongue with a thick, slightly yellow coating may indicate:

a) damp heat with Qi stagnation
b) wind heat invasion
c) Qi and Blood stagnation
d) excess interior cold

A

a) damp heat with Qi stagnation

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8
Q

Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue with a thick yellow coating that is greasy may indicate:

a) damp heat
b) cold damp
c) Qi stagnation
d) phlegm Heat

A

a) damp heat
d) phlegm Heat

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9
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Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue with a yellow coating that is greasy may indicate:

a) damp and/or heat
b) damp and/or cold
c) if pale yellow, cold mixed with heat
d) if dark yellow, heat more than damp

A

a) damp and/or heat
d) if dark yellow, heat more than damp

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10
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A tongue with a yellow coating that is glossy (wet) over a pale body may indicate:

a) that you have to scrape the coat off to see the body
b) yin deficiency
c) yang deficiency
d) blood deficiency

A

c) yang deficiency

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11
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Choose the 2 best answers.

For a tongue with a yellow coat in various regions of the tongue body or darker color shade, choose the correct presentation to problem area.

a) coating at the root indicates upper burner
b) coating in double strips indicates Speen/Stomach
c) dark yellow coating indicates Liver/Gallbladder
d) coating at the tip indicates middle burner

A

b) coating in double strips indicates Speen/Stomach
c) dark yellow coating indicates Liver/Gallbladder

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12
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Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue with a gray or slightly black coating may indicate:

a) an exterior condition
b) if also dry, yin deficiency
c) if also glossy, cold damp or phlegm
d) wind cold invasion

A

b) if also dry, yin deficiency
c) if also glossy, cold damp or phlegm

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13
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Choose the 3 best answers.

A tongue with a black coating may indicate:

a) use of a Pepto Bismol type product
b) if also dry and cracked, kidney exhaustion
c) if also glossy and greasy, excess cold damp
d) if also glossy and greasy, excess yin deficiency

A

a) use of Pepto Bismol type product
b) if also dry and cracked, kidney exhaustion
c) if also glossy and greasy, excess cold damp

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14
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

When examining tongue coat qualities we look for:

a) thickness, moisture, viscosity
b) distribution, peeling
c) taste
d) trend and root

A

a) thickness, moisture, viscosity
b) distribution, peeling
d) trend and root

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15
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

A thin tongue coating may indicate:

a) Depth of the antipathgenic qi or pathogenic qi
b) Stomach/Spleen Yang qi deficiency
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin deficiency
d) food stagnation
e) phlegm/dampness

A

a) Depth of the antipathgenic qi or pathogenic qi
b) Stomach/Spleen Yang qi deficiency
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin deficiency

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16
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

A thick tongue coating may indicate:

a) Depth of the antipathgenic qi or pathogenic qi
b) Stomach/Spleen Yang qi deficiency
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin deficiency
d) food stagnation
e) phlegm/dampness

A

a) Depth of the antipathgenic qi or pathogenic qi
d) food stagnation
e) phlegm/dampness

17
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

A glossy (wet) tongue coating may indicate:

a) the condition of the body fluids
b) cold, damp, phlegm
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin
d) food stagnation

A

a) the condition of the body fluids
b) cold, damp, phlegm
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin

18
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

A dry tongue coating may indicate:

a) Heat excess
b) Yin and/or Yang deficiency
c) Phlegm heat
d) the condition of the body fluids

A

a) Heat excess
b) Yin and/or Yang deficiency
d) the condition of the body fluids

19
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

A greasy tongue coating may indicate:

a) heat excess
b) food stagnation
c) phlegm or Dampness
d) obstruction of yang qi by pathogen

A

b) food stagnation
c) Phlegm or Dampness
d) obstruction of yang qi by pathogen

20
Q

Choose the 4 best answers.

A moldy tongue coating may indicate:

a) internal abscess
b) food stagnation
c) Phlegm
d) putrid qi rising due to excess yang heat
e) diet high in tofu

A

a) internal abscess
b) food stagnation
c) Phlegm
d) putrid qi rising due to excess yang heat

21
Q

Choose the 4 best answers.

A uneven tongue coating may indicate:

a) if on one side, lung or heart
b) invasion of pathogen
c) if absent in the center, deficiency of qi, blood, yin or essence
d) location and depth of the disease
e) stomach qi deficiency or dysfunction

A

b) invasion of pathogen
c) if absent in the center, deficiency of qi, blood, yin or essence
d) location and depth of the disease
e) stomach qi deficiency or dysfunction

22
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

A peeling tongue coating may:

a) appear geographic (“mapped”), scattered, peeled with raised borders
b) indicate excess heat invasion
c) appear mirror-like, smooth and shiny with no coat
d) indicate qi stagnation
e) indicate stomach yin and qi deficiency

A

a) appear geographic (“mapped”), scattered, peeled with raised borders
c) appear mirror-like, smooth and shiny with no coat
e) indicate stomach yin and qi deficiency

23
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

The trend of the tongue coating thickening or thinning may indicate:

a) the pathogen entering or exiting
b) the prognosis
c) the health of stomach qi
d) the existence qi stagnation

A

a) the pathogen entering or exiting
b) the prognosis
c) the health of stomach qi

24
Q

Choose the 3 best answers.

The rootedness of the tongue coating may indicate:

a) the strength of a pathogen
b) the prognosis
c) the strength of kidney qi
d) the strength of stomach qi

A

a) the strength of a pathogen
b) the prognosis
d) the strength of stomach qi