w6.h2 Lesson 6: Tongue Bearing Indications Flashcards
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue body with a stiff tongue bearing causing slurred speech and/or dysphagia may be due to:
a) Spleen dysfunction causing wind causing muscle spasm
b) Turbid Phlegm
c) Excess Heat invading the Pericardium
d) Yang Qi dysfunction
b) Turbid Phlegm
c) Excess Heat invading the Pericardium
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A tongue body with an atrophied limp tongue bearing may be due to:
a) Damp accumulation
b) Turbid Phlegm
c) Excess Heat
d) Yin & Body Fluid Exhaustion
c) Excess Heat
d) Yin & Body Fluid Exhaustion
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue body with a trembling or quivering tongue bearing may be due to:
a) Excess Cold
b) Qi, Blood or Yang Deficiency
c) Excess Heat causing Internal Wind
d) Food Stagnation
b) Qi, Blood or Yang Deficiency
c) Excess Heat causing Internal Winnd
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A tongue body with a deviated bearing is due to Wind Stroke possibly caused by:
a) Wind Phlegm
b) Blood Deficiency
c) Liver Yang Rising
d) External Pathogenic Wind Entering the Collaterals
a) Wind Phlegm
b) Blood Deficiency
c) Liver Yang Rising
d) Excess Pathogenic Wind Entering the Collaterals
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue body that is protruded and/or licking may be due to cognitive/mental issues associated with:
a) Kidney Channel Pathogenic Heat
b) Liver Channel Pathogenic Heat
c) Heart Channel Pathogenic Heat
d) Spleen Channel Pathogenic Heat
e) Lung Channel Pathogenic Heat
c) Heart Channel Pathogenic Heat
d) Spleen Channel Pathogenic Heat
Choose the 4 best answers.
A tongue body that has a contracted bearing may be due to:
a) Pathogenic Heat or Cold
b) Lung Dryness
c) Qi and Blood Deficiency
d) Spleen and Kidney “Failure”
e) Turbid Phlegm
a) Pathogenic Heat or Cold
c) Qi and Blood Deficiency
d) Spleen and Kidney “Failure”
e) Turbid Phlegm
Choose the 3 best answers.
A tongue body that has a protracted or loosened bearing mostly seen in critical conditions may be due to:
a) Interior Excess Heat
b) Liver Wind
c) Qi Deficiency
d) Cold Invasion
e) Phlegm Heat
a) Interior Excess Heat
c) Qi Deficiency
e) Phlegm Heat