Week 3 One Liners Flashcards by Haley Donovan

Q

Pale tongue, slightly wet

A

Yang xu

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Pale tongue, slightly dry

A

Blood xu

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Q

Pale tongue, pale sides

A

Lv blood xu

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Pale tongue, orangy sides

A

severe Liver blood xu

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Red tongue

A

heat

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Red tongue, coating

A

full heat

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Red tongue, no coat

A

empty heat

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Red tongue, red tip, with coat

A

HT fire

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Red tongue, red tip, no coat

A

HT empty heat

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Red tongue, red sides, with coat

A

LV fire or GB heat

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Red tongue, red sides, no coat

A

LV yin xu with empty heat

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Red tongue, red center, no coat

A

empty heat of the ST

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Red tongue, red points on tip

A

HT fire

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Red tongue, red points on side

A

LV fire

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Red tongue, red spots on root

A

Heat in lower jiao

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Red tongue, red points in or around center

A

ST heat

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Purple tongue

A

Blood stasis

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Reddish purple

A

blood stasis from heat

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blue purple

A

blood stasis from cold

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reddish purple sides

A

liver blood stasis

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Q

bluish purple sides for women

A

blood stasis in uterus

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purple in center

A

blood stasis in ST

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Thin and pale

A

blood xu

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thin and red without coat

A

yin xu

Q

swollen

A

damp, phlegm

Q

partially swollen

A

heat

Q

swollen, red tip

A

severe heart fire

Q

swollen, red sides

A

liver fire

Q

swollen sides on a pale tongue

A

spleen xu

Q

swelling in the front third

A

phlegm in lungs

Q

stiff

A

interior wind or blood stasis

Q

flaccid

A

loss of body fluids

Q

long

A

heat

Q

short and pale

A

severe yang xu

Q

short and red without coat

A

yin xu

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cracked

A

heat or yin xu

Q

quivering

A

spleen qi xu

Q

deviated

A

interior wind

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tooth marked

A

spleen qi xu

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Normal tongue coat

A

thin white

Q

Tongue coating reflects

A

state of yang organs (particularly ST)
condition of heat, cold, full, xu

Q

Pathogenic coating

A

thick

Q

Coat without root

A

ST qi xu

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No coat

A

ST yin xu

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total absence of coat and red tongue body

A

ST/KD yin xu with empty heat

Q

white coat

A

cold pattern

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yellow coat

A

full heat pattern

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grey or black coat and wet

A

extreme cold

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grey or black coat and dry

A

extreme heat

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moisture of the tongue indicates

A

state of body fluids

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normal moisture

A

slightly moist

Q

Wet tongue

A

yang xu or yang qi not transforming fluids, accumulating damp

Q

dry tongue

A

heat, yin xu

Q

sticky tongue

A

damp/phlegm