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Tongue Body Color
Question | Answer |
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Pale and slightly dry | blood deficiency |
Pale and wet | yang deficiency |
Pale, bright and shiny | qi and blood deficiency, particularly of stomach and spleen |
Red, with coating | Heat in the ying or blood level |
Red without coating | Yin deficiency with heat |
Red and wet | Heat with retention of dampness |
Red and dry with coating | Heat from excess burning body fluids |
Red and dry withou coating | Deficiency heat and exhaustion of bldy fluids |
Red and shiny | Stomach and/or kidney yin deficiency |
Red and scarlet | Lung or Heart yin vacuity |
Red with red points or spots | Heat w/ blood stasis |
Red with prockles | Heat in yin level or in the upper or middle burner |
Red w/ purple spot in the center | blood stasis and heat in the stomach |
Red and peeled | Heat from Stomach and Kidney yin deficiency |
Dark red with a dry center | Stomach fire blazing or Stomach yin deficiency with heat |
Reddish purple | Heat and blood stasis |
Reddish purple and distended | Extreme heat with blood stasis and alcohol toxin injuring the heart |
Bluish purple | Blood stasis from internal cold |
Bluish purple and moist | Blood stasis from internal cold, stiffening the tendons and bones |
Blue | Severe internal cold with blood stasis |
Blue without coating | Severe internal cold with blood stasis and exhaustion of blood |
Blue central surface | Spleen yang deficiency with retention of phlegm in the chest |
Blue in a pregnant woman | Danger of immanent miscarriage |
Distended sublingual veing | Deficiency and stagnation of qi |
Dark, distended sublingual veins | Blood stasis |