w6.h2 Lesson 6: Tongue Bearing Indications

Question 1

Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue body with a stiff tongue bearing causing slurred speech and/or dysphagia may be due to:

a) Spleen dysfunction causing wind causing muscle spasm
b) Turbid Phlegm
c) Excess Heat invading the Pericardium
d) Yang Qi dysfunction

Answer 1

b) Turbid Phlegm
c) Excess Heat invading the Pericardium

Question 2

Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue body with an atrophied limp tongue bearing may be due to:

a) Damp accumulation
b) Turbid Phlegm
c) Excess Heat
d) Yin & Body Fluid Exhaustion

Answer 2

c) Excess Heat
d) Yin & Body Fluid Exhaustion

Question 3

Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue body with a trembling or quivering tongue bearing may be due to:

a) Excess Cold
b) Qi, Blood or Yang Deficiency
c) Excess Heat causing Internal Wind
d) Food Stagnation

Answer 3

b) Qi, Blood or Yang Deficiency
c) Excess Heat causing Internal Winnd

Question 4

Choose the best answers.

A tongue body with a deviated bearing is due to Wind Stroke possibly caused by:

a) Wind Phlegm
b) Blood Deficiency
c) Liver Yang Rising
d) External Pathogenic Wind Entering the Collaterals

Answer 4

a) Wind Phlegm
b) Blood Deficiency
c) Liver Yang Rising
d) Excess Pathogenic Wind Entering the Collaterals

Question 5

Choose the 2 best answers.

A tongue body that is protruded and/or licking may be due to cognitive/mental issues associated with:

a) Kidney Channel Pathogenic Heat
b) Liver Channel Pathogenic Heat
c) Heart Channel Pathogenic Heat
d) Spleen Channel Pathogenic Heat
e) Lung Channel Pathogenic Heat

Answer 5

c) Heart Channel Pathogenic Heat
d) Spleen Channel Pathogenic Heat

Question 6

Choose the 4 best answers.

A tongue body that has a contracted bearing may be due to:

a) Pathogenic Heat or Cold
b) Lung Dryness
c) Qi and Blood Deficiency
d) Spleen and Kidney “Failure”
e) Turbid Phlegm

Answer 6

a) Pathogenic Heat or Cold
c) Qi and Blood Deficiency
d) Spleen and Kidney “Failure”
e) Turbid Phlegm

Question 7

Choose the 3 best answers.

A tongue body that has a protracted or loosened bearing mostly seen in critical conditions may be due to:

a) Interior Excess Heat
b) Liver Wind
c) Qi Deficiency
d) Cold Invasion
e) Phlegm Heat

Answer 7

a) Interior Excess Heat
c) Qi Deficiency
e) Phlegm Heat