How TCM uses tongue diagnosis to diagnose

Healthy tongue: its color should be pink or reddish, its shape should be oblong, moderately fat and thin, its tongue coating should be thin and white, shiny and moist, and finally the tongue should be flexible and powerful.

Pale tongue: It is a deficiency of blood, yang or cold, and this pale tongue indicates that there may be nutritional disorders, anemia and some endocrine diseases.

The tongue is too red: it is yin deficiency and real heat, the body is hot, and it is easy to have bad breath and short temper, which indicates that there is a problem with thyroid function or diabetes.

Fat and tender tongue: There are tooth marks on the side of the tongue, which are mostly deficiency and cold, and may suffer from hypothyroidism or acromegaly.

Thorns on the tongue: indicate heat depression and internal knots, which may lead to pneumonia and scarlet fever, as well as other diseases with high fever.

Yellow and greasy tongue coating: hot, the darker the yellow, the heavier the heat. It mainly reflects the stagnation of the stomach and intestines and the increase of putrefactive organic matter in the digestive tract.

Tremor when tongue protrusion: indicates neurasthenia and chronic weakness.

Poor mobility: Poor tongue movement or crooked stiffness is often a precursor to cerebrovascular disease.

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The content of tongue diagnosis mainly includes two aspects: looking at the tongue quality and looking at the tongue coating

Looking at the quality of the tongue, we can infer the deficiency of the viscera and the prosperity and decline of qi and blood.

Looking at the tongue coating can be used to infer the nature of the disease, the depth and the growth and decline of the evil.

1. The God of Tongue. 1. Rong tongue.

The main characteristic is "red live": ruddy color and flexible movement.

Clinical significance: the tongue is vigorous, the tongue is normal, or the disease is mild, and the prognosis is good.

2. Dry tongue. Characteristics: dull color, inflexible movement.

Clinical significance: lack of expression in the tongue, severe disease, or poor prognosis.

Second, the color of the tongue. 1. Light red tongue.

Characteristics: The color of the tongue is light and ruddy, white and red.

Clinical: Sufficient heart qi, strong stomach qi, harmony of qi and blood, common in normal people or external infections and other initial stage, mild disease.

2. Pale white tongue.

Features: Also known as "pale tongue", the tongue color is lighter than the normal tongue color, with more white and less red.

Clinical: Deficiency of main qi and blood, yang deficiency. Pale tongue is common in anemia, severe malnutrition, chronic digestive, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems.

Causes: Lack of qi and blood, insufficient filling of blood and veins in the tongue.

Yang Qi is insufficient, and it cannot warm the blood and honor the tongue.

The cold ants in the yin deficiency tease violently, the muscles and veins are retracted, and the qi and blood cannot be honored on the tongue.

3. Dry white tongue.

Characteristics: The tongue is pale white, completely stuffy, bloodless, and dull.

Clinical: depletion of sperm and blood, extreme weakness of the whole body, common in the later stages of wasting disease.

4. Red tongue. Characteristics: The tongue color is more red than the normal tongue, and it is bright red.

Clinical: main heat syndrome.

5. Tongue. Characteristic: The tongue is darker red or dark red than the red tongue.

Clinical: The main heat enters the camp blood, and the camp yin is consumed.

6. The tip of the tongue is red.

Characteristics: The tip of the tongue is red or has red spots, or even red crushing.

Clinical: heart fire or cardiopulmonary depression.

7. The tip of the tongue is red.

Characteristics: The tongue is pale red or slightly reddish, especially the red tip of the tongue.

Clinical: It often indicates the initial onset of external sensory syndrome, heart and lung fever, or heart and liver fire.

8. Blue tongue.

Characteristic: The whole tongue is blue or purple, or the tongue is bluish-purple, or even bluish or purplish-black in color.

Clinical: poor flow of main qi and blood, blood stasis.

9. Light purple tongue.

Characteristics: The tongue is pale white with a bluish-purple tinge.

Clinical: Yin and cold are abundant, qi and blood are not smooth, or qi and blood are deficient and blood stasis.

10. Ecchymosis tongue.

Characteristic: Localized bluish-purple patches.

Clinical: viscera or local qi and blood stasis.

11. Petechial tongue.

Features: bruising or purplish-black petechiae, mostly on the tip and edge of the tongue.

Significance: Stagnation of qi and blood in the viscera or locality.