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Inspection:
Color of the tongue |
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Light-whitish tongue |
Red and deep-red tongue |
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healthy people; or in mild cases, such
as primary stage of exogenous disease. |
deficiency of qi and blood; asthenia of
yang-qi |
heat syndrome;the redder tongue, the
severer the heat. |
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Purplish tongue or
purplish macules on the tongue |
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inhibited circulation
of qi and blood |
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Inspection: Shape of the tongue |
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Rough tongue |
Tender tongue |
Bulgy tongue |
Thin and emaciated
tongue |
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sthenia syndrome; heat syndrome. |
asthenia syndrome; cold syndrome. |
retention of dampness and phlegm. |
asthenia of qi and blood; consumption
of yin fluid. |
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Fissured tongue |
Tooth-marked tongue |
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deficiency of fluid ,essence and blood. |
qi
asthenia; yang asthenia; internal retention of dampness. |
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Inspection:
Movement of the tongue |
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Deviated tongue |
Flaccid tongue |
Shrunk tongue |
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wind stroke; premonitory sign of wind
strode. |
extreme consumption of fluid; decline
of qi and blood. |
critical condition. |
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Inspection:
Tongue Fur |
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White tongue fur |
Whitish greasy tongue
fur |
Powder-like thick and
white tongue fur |
Thin and yellow tongue fur |
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external syndrome; cold syndrome. |
internal retention of damp turbid
substance, phlegm and fluid;food retention without transforming into
heat. |
mixture of exogenous fetid pathogenic
factors and heat toxin. |
mild pathogenic heat, usually seen in
wind-heat external syndrome, or mild heat progress in internal heat
syndrome. |
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Light-yellow tongue fur |
Deep-yellow tongue fur |
Sallow tongue fur |
Yellow and white
tongue fur |
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mild heat |
severe heat |
extreme heat |
pathogenic factors are transforms into
heat in exogenous disease. |
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Yellow and greasy
tongue fur |
Yellow and rough
tongue fur |
Grayish tongue
fur |
Black tongue fur |
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accumulation of damp-heat; phlegm and fluid retention transforming
into heat; food retention and heat putrefaction. |
pathogenic heat consuming body fluid; or retention of heat in the
intestines. |
severity of internal heat syndrome;
internal cold syndrome. |
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Moist tongue fur |
Slippery tongue fur |
Dry and rough tongue
fur |
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sufficiency and upward distribution of
body fluid. |
cold-dampness; retention of fluid and
internal invasion of cold-dampness; asthenia of yaing-qi and failure
of qi to transform fluid. |
exuberant heat; consumption of yin
fluid. |
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Greasy tongue fur |
Putrid tongue fur |
Exfoliating tongue
fur |
Mirror-like tongue
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internal exuberance of dampness and obstruction of yangqi. Dampness,
phlegm, retention of food, damp-febrile. |
fumigation of excess of yang-heat, retention of food in the stomach
and intestines; accumulation of phlegm and turbid substance.
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failure
of deficient gastric qi to fumigate the tongue; failure of the
exhausted gastric yi to moisten the tongue. |
severe
consumption of gastric qi and is a sign of the exhaustion of gastric
yin. |
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