Week 3 One Liners Flashcards by Haley Donovan

Q

Pale tongue, slightly wet

A

Yang xu

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Pale tongue, slightly dry

A

Blood xu

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Q

Pale tongue, pale sides

A

Lv blood xu

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Pale tongue, orangy sides

A

severe Liver blood xu

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Q

Red tongue

A

heat

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Q

Red tongue, coating

A

full heat

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Red tongue, no coat

A

empty heat

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Red tongue, red tip, with coat

A

HT fire

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Red tongue, red tip, no coat

A

HT empty heat

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Red tongue, red sides, with coat

A

LV fire or GB heat

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Red tongue, red sides, no coat

A

LV yin xu with empty heat

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Red tongue, red center, no coat

A

empty heat of the ST

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Red tongue, red points on tip

A

HT fire

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Red tongue, red points on side

A

LV fire

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Red tongue, red spots on root

A

Heat in lower jiao

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Red tongue, red points in or around center

A

ST heat

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Purple tongue

A

Blood stasis

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Reddish purple

A

blood stasis from heat

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blue purple

A

blood stasis from cold

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reddish purple sides

A

liver blood stasis

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Q

bluish purple sides for women

A

blood stasis in uterus

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purple in center

A

blood stasis in ST

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Thin and pale

A

blood xu

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thin and red without coat

A

yin xu

swollen

damp, phlegm

partially swollen

heat

swollen, red tip

severe heart fire

swollen, red sides

liver fire

swollen sides on a pale tongue

spleen xu

swelling in the front third

phlegm in lungs

stiff

interior wind or blood stasis

flaccid

loss of body fluids

long

heat

short and pale

severe yang xu

short and red without coat

yin xu

cracked

heat or yin xu

quivering

spleen qi xu

deviated

interior wind

tooth marked

spleen qi xu

Normal tongue coat

thin white

Tongue coating reflects

1. state of yang organs (particularly ST) 2. condition of heat, cold, full, xu

Pathogenic coating

thick

Coat without root

ST qi xu

No coat

ST yin xu

total absence of coat and red tongue body

ST/KD yin xu with empty heat

white coat

cold pattern

yellow coat

full heat pattern

grey or black coat and wet

extreme cold

grey or black coat and dry

extreme heat

moisture of the tongue indicates

state of body fluids

normal moisture

slightly moist

Wet tongue

yang xu or yang qi not transforming fluids, accumulating damp

dry tongue

heat, yin xu

sticky tongue

damp/phlegm