Shape Of Tongue

Question 1

Stiff tongue, pale or normal color

Answer 1

Internal wind

Question 2

Stiff tongue, dry, red or dark red

Answer 2

Excess heat injuring body fluids, chronic

Question 3

Stiff tongue, red or dark red

Answer 3

Intense heat from high fever acute

Question 4

Pale, thin tongue

Answer 4

Blood deficiency

Question 5

Red, thin tongue

Answer 5

Yin deficiency

Question 6

Swollen, pale tongue

Answer 6

Spleen yang qi def

Question 7

Swollen tongue, normal color

Answer 7

Dampness in spleen or stomach

Question 8

Swollen, pale, wet

Answer 8

Spleen and/or kidney yang def

Question 9

Swollen and red

Answer 9

Heat in the stomach and heart

Question 10

Swollen and purple

Answer 10

Alcoholism with retention of damp heat

Question 11

Flaccid tongue

Answer 11

Def of body fluids

Question 12

Pale, flaccid tongue

Answer 12

Heart and spleen qi def, blood def

Question 13

Long, thin

Answer 13

Heat, heart heat

Question 14

Long, swollen, red tip

Answer 14

Damp heat in the heart

Question 15

Short tongue

Answer 15

Internal cold

Question 16

Cracked tongue

Answer 16

Dryness

Question 17

Horizontal cracks

Answer 17

Yin deficiency

Question 18

Pale with cracks

Answer 18

Blood deficiency

Question 19

Vertical crack reaching tip of tongue, no coat, red

Answer 19

Heart yin def

Question 20

Vertical crack, pale

Answer 20

Heart blood def

Question 21

Stiff

Answer 21

Severe heat, heart