Tongue Questions

Question 1

what color tongue is a sign of deficiency of blood, qi, or blood?

Answer 1

pale tongue

Question 2

a red tongue is a sign of what type of syndrome?

Answer 2

excess heat or yin deficiency

Question 3

a tongue that is only slight red or red on tip and edge is an indicator of internal or external heat?

Answer 3

external

Question 4

what color tongue is a sign of blood stagnation?

Answer 4

pruple

Question 5

what color tongue is a sign of high heat and high fever

Answer 5

crimson

Question 6

is a tough tongue an excess or deficiency?

Answer 6

excess

Question 7

is a tender tongue an excess or deficiency?

Answer 7

deficiency

Question 8

what does a small tongue indicate?

Answer 8

blood and yin defieincy

Question 9

what does a large tongue indicate?

Answer 9

damp, phlegm, toxin (excess fluid)

Question 10

what does a small tongue indicate?

Answer 10

yin deficiency with heat

Question 11

what does a thin tongue indicate?

Answer 11

qi and blood deficiency

Question 12

what does a deep red tongue with cracks and a dry coating indicate?

Answer 12

excess heat

Question 13

A yellow greasy tongue indicates what?

Answer 13

damp heat

Question 14

a deep red tongue with a white greasy coat indicates what?

Answer 14

yin deficiency with damp phlegm

Question 15

Does a thick or thin tongue coating indicate

• interior
• later stage issue
• more severe

Answer 15

thick

Question 16

a blue tongue represents what?

Answer 16

excess cold

Question 17

what does a dry tongue coating indicate?

Answer 17

• body fluid deficiency

- excess heat

Question 18

what does a greasy tongue coating indicate?

Answer 18

damp/phlegm

Question 19

what does a yellow tongue coat mean?

Answer 19

heat

Question 20

what does a white tongue coat mean?

Answer 20

cold

Question 21

what does a pale purple and moist tongue indicate?

Answer 21

cold syndrome

Question 22

Pale, enlarged, and moist= __________

Answer 22

yang deficiency

Question 23

Red and tough tongue with thick dry coating= __________

Answer 23

excess heat

Question 24

Crimson, dry and small without coating= __________

Answer 24

yin deficiency

Question 25

Bluish on edges and sides=__________

Answer 25

blood stagnation

Question 26

Pale, thin, and small= ________________

Answer 26

qi and blood deficiency

Question 27

Swollen (wider horizontally and vertically) indicates what?

Answer 27

qi and blood stasis due to heat

Question 28

Pale, enlarged, white coating= ______________

Answer 28

cold damp accumulation

Question 29

Pale, enlarged, teethmarks, white slippery coating = _________________________–

Answer 29

spleen and kidney yang deficiency with dampness

Question 30

Scalloped, pale, and moist= ______________

Answer 30

spleen deficiency

Question 31

Thin and pale = ___________

Answer 31

qi and blood deficiency

Question 32

Thin and red= __________

Answer 32

yin deficiency

Question 33

Deep red crack with dry coating= ________

Answer 33

excess heat

Question 34

Red body, cracks, no tongue coating= _____________

Answer 34

yin deficiency

Question 35

what are prickles a sign of?

Answer 35

Prickles= excess pathogenic heat

Question 36

Pale, tender and wet= ___________

Answer 36

yang deficiency

Question 37

what color tongue coating indicates a cold pathogen and exterior?

Answer 37

white

Question 38

what color tongue coating indicates heat and an interior condition?

Answer 38

yellow

Question 39

Dry and grey=

Answer 39

heat syndrome

Question 40

Moist and grey=

Answer 40

cold syndrome

Question 41

what does no tongue coating indicate?

Answer 41

yin deficiency

Question 42

pale and flaccid=

Answer 42

severe qi and blood deficiency

Question 43

does a rooted or non rooted coating Have Stomach Qi and right Qi

Answer 43

rooted

Question 44

which coating (rooted or non rooted) comes off easily?

Answer 44

non rooted