w5.h2 Lesson 4: Tongue Coating Indications Flashcards
Choose the 2 best answers.
Normal tongue coating is:
a) thin, white, even
b) sometimes wet or dry
c) sometimes sticky
d) rooted to the tongue body
a) thin, white, even
d) rooted to the tongue body
Choose the 3 best answers.
A tongue with a white coating that is thin may indicate:
a) normal
b) wind heat
c) early stage of a pathogenic invasion
d) wind cold, damp or cold damp
a) normal
c) early stage of a pathogenic invasion
d) wind cold, damp or cold damp
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue with a white coating that is thick and greasy may indicate:
a) food stagnation or dampness
b) wind heat or wind cold
c) if also glossy, interior cold, damp or phlegm
d) blood stagnation
a) food stagnation or dampness
c) if also glossy, interior cold, damp or phlegm
Choose the 3 best answers.
A tongue with a white coating that is dry may indicate:
a) if also thick, early stage febrile disease
b) wind heat
c) dryness
d) wind cold
a) if also thick, early stage febrile disease
b) wind heat
c) dryness
Choose the best answer.
A person with an internal toxic heat (contagious epidemic) may have a tongue coating that looks:
a) thick white and greasy
b) white and powdery
c) black and white
d) thin and white
b) white and powdery
Choose the best answer.
A tongue with a slightly yellow coating that is thin may indicate:
a) excess interior heat
b) excess interior cold
c) wind cold invasion
d) wind heat invasion
d) wind heat invasion
Choose the best answer.
A tongue with a thick, slightly yellow coating may indicate:
a) damp heat with Qi stagnation
b) wind heat invasion
c) Qi and Blood stagnation
d) excess interior cold
a) damp heat with Qi stagnation
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue with a thick yellow coating that is greasy may indicate:
a) damp heat
b) cold damp
c) Qi stagnation
d) phlegm Heat
a) damp heat
d) phlegm Heat
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue with a yellow coating that is greasy may indicate:
a) damp and/or heat
b) damp and/or cold
c) if pale yellow, cold mixed with heat
d) if dark yellow, heat more than damp
a) damp and/or heat
d) if dark yellow, heat more than damp
Choose the best answer.
A tongue with a yellow coating that is glossy (wet) over a pale body may indicate:
a) that you have to scrape the coat off to see the body
b) yin deficiency
c) yang deficiency
d) blood deficiency
c) yang deficiency
Choose the 2 best answers.
For a tongue with a yellow coat in various regions of the tongue body or darker color shade, choose the correct presentation to problem area.
a) coating at the root indicates upper burner
b) coating in double strips indicates Speen/Stomach
c) dark yellow coating indicates Liver/Gallbladder
d) coating at the tip indicates middle burner
b) coating in double strips indicates Speen/Stomach
c) dark yellow coating indicates Liver/Gallbladder
Choose the 2 best answers.
A tongue with a gray or slightly black coating may indicate:
a) an exterior condition
b) if also dry, yin deficiency
c) if also glossy, cold damp or phlegm
d) wind cold invasion
b) if also dry, yin deficiency
c) if also glossy, cold damp or phlegm
Choose the 3 best answers.
A tongue with a black coating may indicate:
a) use of a Pepto Bismol type product
b) if also dry and cracked, kidney exhaustion
c) if also glossy and greasy, excess cold damp
d) if also glossy and greasy, excess yin deficiency
a) use of Pepto Bismol type product
b) if also dry and cracked, kidney exhaustion
c) if also glossy and greasy, excess cold damp
Choose the 3 best answers.
When examining tongue coat qualities we look for:
a) thickness, moisture, viscosity
b) distribution, peeling
c) taste
d) trend and root
a) thickness, moisture, viscosity
b) distribution, peeling
d) trend and root
Choose the 3 best answers.
A thin tongue coating may indicate:
a) Depth of the antipathgenic qi or pathogenic qi
b) Stomach/Spleen Yang qi deficiency
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin deficiency
d) food stagnation
e) phlegm/dampness
a) Depth of the antipathgenic qi or pathogenic qi
b) Stomach/Spleen Yang qi deficiency
c) Kidney/Stomach Yin deficiency
