Pathologies - tongue and pulse

Question 1

Wind Cold

Answer 1

T: thin white coating
P: floating and tight, often slow

Question 2

Wind Heat

Answer 2

T: thin white coating, with red on tip or sides
P: floating and rapid

Question 3

Lung Qi Deficiency

Answer 3

T: pale tongue with a thin white coating
P: weak or empty pulses, esp. right cun position

Question 4

Lung Yin Deficiency

Answer 4

T: red body with a dry coat or little coating and maybe cracks or peeling
P: rapid and thready

Question 5

Lung Cold

Answer 5

T: white coat - thin in wind cold, thicker in pathogenic cold
P: tight

Question 6

Lung Heat (Fire)

Answer 6

T: red body and thin, yellow coat
P: rapid

Question 7

Lung Dryness

Answer 7

T: dry tongue with thin coating
P: rapid and thready

Question 8

Lung Phlegm Damp Retention

Answer 8

T: pale with a white, sticky coat
P: wiry and slippery

Question 9

Lung Phlegm - Heat Obstructing

Answer 9

T: red, swollen with a sticky yellow coating
P: rapid and slippery

Question 10

Lung Invasion by Wind Water

Answer 10

T: sticky white coating
P: floating and slippery

Question 11

Cold-Phlegm in Lung

Answer 11

T: swollen and wet with a sticky white coating
P: slow and slippery

Question 12

Dry-Phlegm in Lung

Answer 12

T: swollen with a dry, sticky coating
P: thready and slippery

Question 13

Large Intestine Damp Heat

Answer 13

T: red body with yellow, sticky coating
R: rapid and slippery

Question 14

Large Intestine Heat - Consumption of Fluid

Answer 14

T: red body with thick yellow or brown, dry coat
P: full and rapid

Question 15

Cold Invading the Large Intestine

Answer 15

T: thick, white coating
P: deep and wiry

Question 16

Large Intestine Dryness

Answer 16

T: dry, red or pale body without coating
P: thready

Question 17

Large Intestine Qi Stagnation

Answer 17

T: normal to slightly red sides
P: wiry on both chi positions

Question 18

Large Intestine Collapse

Answer 18

T: pale
P: deep, fine, weak

Question 19

Heart Qi Deficiency

Answer 19

T: pale tongue with a thin, white coating
P: weak or empty pulses

Question 20

Heart Yang Deficiency

Answer 20

T: pale, swollen, with a white, smooth, or wet coating
P: weak and deep, often slow

Question 21

Heart Blood Deficiency

Answer 21

T: pale and thin with a thin, white coat
P: weak and thready

Question 22

Heart Yin Deficiency

Answer 22

T: red body with little or no coat, red tip with red papules, deep midline crack extending to tip, maybe bifurcating
P: rapid and thready

Question 23

Heart Fire

Answer 23

T: red with a redder tip
P: full and rapid pulse

Question 24

Phlegm-Fire Harassing the Heart

Answer 24

T: red with a yellow sticky coat
P: wiry and slippery

Question 25

Phlegm Misting the Mind

Answer 25

T: thin, sticky coat, maybe with a swollen body P: Slippery often slow

Question 26

Heart Qi Stagnation

Answer 26

T: slightly purple on the sides in the anterior 1/3 P: empty but overwhelming in left cun

Question 27

Heart Vessel Obstructed

Answer 27

T: purple sides, swollen with sticky coat P: Wiry, choppy, knotted

Question 28

Heart Blood Stagnation

Answer 28

T: dark purple or dark purple spots P: thready and hesitant or with missed-beats

Question 29

Full-Heat in the SI

Answer 29

T: red with a redder tip and a yellow coat P: rapid and full

Question 30

SI Qi Pain

Answer 30

T: white coating P: deep and wiry

Question 31

Si Deficient and Cold

Answer 31

T: pale body with a white coating P: deep, slow, and weak

Question 32

Infestation of Worms

Answer 32

T: depends on attack P: slow, deep

Question 33

Pericardium Heat

Answer 33

T: red and dry without coating P: thready and rapid

Question 34

Pericardium Blood Deficiency

Answer 34

T: pale, thin, slightly dry P: Choppy or thready in left cun position

Question 35

Pericardium Fire

Answer 35

T: red with redder and swollen tip, may have red dots and yellow coat P: full, rapid; may overflow

Question 36

Phlegm-Fire Harassing Pericardium

Answer 36

T: red , swollen with a yellow, dry sticky coat; deep crack in Heart P: full, rapid, slippery or rapid, full, wiry

Question 37

Pericardium Qi Stagnation

Answer 37

T: mildly pale-purple on sides at front P: empty and may overflow in left cun position

Question 38

Blood Stasis in Pericardium

Answer 38

T: purple everywhere or only on sides at fron P: choppy, wiry, or knotted