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Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 1: tongue shape and tongue surface)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 2: tongue size)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 3: thickness of tongue coating)
Traditional Chinese Medicine Health: Zero-based Tongue Diagnosis (Lecture 4: Color of Tongue Coating)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 5: typical tongue picture of qi deficiency constitution)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 6: typical tongue picture of yang deficiency constitution)
Matters needing attention in tongue diagnosis
(1) Patients will naturally stick their tongues out of their mouths and fully expose them. It should be flat, so that the tongue can relax. Don't curl or force too hard to avoid discoloration. When looking at the tongue, try to see clearly the quality, body and coating of the tongue as quickly as possible, so as to prevent the patient from sticking out the tongue for too long. If necessary, he can have a rest and repeat the observation.
(2) The patient faces the light, so that the light is directed at the entrance, and the light should be sufficient, otherwise the tongue color and tongue coating are not easy to distinguish.
(3) Pay attention to the influence of diet on tongue diagnosis: for example, after eating, the tongue coating becomes thinner due to the friction of food; Moisten tongue coating after drinking; After eating warm or irritating food, the tongue will turn red or crimson. Therefore, it is generally not appropriate to carry out tongue diagnosis immediately after the patient enters the diet or gargles.
(4) Pay attention to the coating: if the coating is white after drinking milk; Edible ebony, waxberry, coffee, Pei-Mui Chan, olive, etc. The tongue coating can be dyed black or brown; Eat broad beans, oranges, persimmons, coptis, riboflavin, etc. Yellowing the tongue coating. These temporary foreign body pollution should not be mistaken for pathological tongue coating.
Typical tongue picture of yin deficiency constitution
1 The tongue is broken and there is dry moss on the face.
Tongue quality: fragmentation
Tongue color: redder
Tongue coating: yellow, slightly thick and dry.
This tongue image is mainly seen in wind and phlegm disturbance, yin injury and body fluid injury.
Thin red tongue, thin white fur.
Tongue quality: crimson
Tongue coating: thin and white, slightly dry.
Tongue: Tooth marks on both sides.
The reddish tongue is mostly caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney and blood stasis. Patients with this tongue picture may be accompanied by dizziness, dry eyes and fatigue.
Red tongue with little fur.
Tongue coating: less
Tongue quality: redder
Tongue body: Tongue nipple is obvious.
This tongue picture suggests that the patient is deficient in liver and kidney, and gradually turns hot and blind. Patients with this tongue picture may be accompanied by symptoms such as dry throat and tongue, insomnia and dreaminess.
4. Cleft tongue with little fur.
Tongue quality: tender and pale.
Tongue body: fat.
Lingual surface: rupture
Generally, patients with this tongue picture suggest deficiency of qi and blood and yin deficiency of liver and kidney. If the tongue coating is thin, white and greasy, it means that there is water in the body.
The tongue is dark red with thin yellow greasy fur.
Tongue quality: crimson
Tongue body: fat.
Tongue coating: yellow, thin and greasy.
Patients with this tongue picture may have symptoms such as cheek redness, emaciation, hot flashes, night sweats, nervous fever, unstable sleep, dizziness and dry stool.
6 bright red tongue coating is less.
Tongue quality: bright red
Tongue coating: less
Tongue body: thin
Most people with this kind of tongue picture are deficient in kidney yin, which can not benefit the heart, leading to excessive heart fire due to yin deficiency, so the tongue is red and there are petechiae on the tip of the tongue.
7 cracked tongue, crimson tongue
Tongue quality: crimson
Lingual surface: rupture
Tongue coating: less
This kind of dry red tongue coating is mostly due to yin deficiency and excessive fire. Excessive heat hurts the yin for too long, and body fluid is lost, which can not nourish the tongue body, resulting in cracks on the tongue surface.
8 reddish tongue, mirror tongue
Tongue quality: crimson
Tongue coating: thin and white, slightly dry.
Tongue: Tooth marks on both sides.
This kind of tongue picture is common in chronic consumptive diseases, and its clinical manifestations are thirst, mental fatigue, qi deficiency, laziness, low tone and so on.
9 Cleft tongue, white and greasy fur
Tongue coating: white and greasy, thick.
Tongue quality: crimson
Tongue body: there is a crack in the middle and tooth marks on both sides.
Patients with this tongue picture may have symptoms such as dryness and heat, emotional irritability and depression, insomnia and dreaminess, abdominal distension, indigestion and dry mouth.
10 map tongue with red tongue.
Tongue coating: peeling off like a map.
Tongue body: thin
Tongue surface: purple ecchymosis
Most people with this tongue picture have yin deficiency and internal heat, and stomach yin deficiency. Patients with this tongue picture may be accompanied by five symptoms: upset, fever, chest tightness, shortness of breath and physical weakness.
1 1 The red tongue coating is thin and yellow.
Tongue coating: thin and yellow
Tongue quality: red
Tongue color: deep on both sides and deep in the middle.
Patients with this tongue picture may have symptoms such as dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes and ears, decreased vision, hot face or red cheekbones, dry mouth and throat, and five upset eyes.
12 has a red tongue and a mirror tongue.
Tongue surface: chapped.
Tongue quality: red
Tongue surface: smooth and less moss.
This tongue picture is mostly due to yin deficiency in the body or spicy partial eclipse at ordinary times, which hurts yin and body fluid; Or heat syndrome burns stomach yin.
13 The tongue is reddish with yellow greasy fur.
Tongue body: thin and thin
Tongue quality: crimson
Tongue coating: yellow and greasy, dry.
This tongue picture suggests that liver fire is on the high side and stomach heat is on the high side. Common symptoms such as fever in hands and feet, hot flashes, night sweats, irritability and depression, insomnia, blurred vision, etc.
14 tongue cleft coating is yellow and greasy
Tongue coating: little or no tongue coating
Tongue quality: redder
Lingual surface: there are tiny cracks.
This tongue picture suggests yin deficiency of liver and kidney and blood stasis. Common in hands and feet fever, dry mouth and throat, loss of appetite, dry stool and other symptoms.
15 reddish tongue coating is thin and white
Tongue body: cracked
Tongue quality: reddish
Tongue coating: the middle back is slightly thick and white and greasy.
This tongue picture suggests liver and kidney deficiency. Common amnesia, dizziness, tinnitus, hypochondriac pain, soreness of waist and knees, dry mouth and throat, insomnia and dreaminess.
16 has a red tongue and rough fur.
Tongue coating: dry, thick and white
Tongue quality: red
Tongue surface: deep fissure, teeth marks on both sides.
This tongue picture suggests that the patient has yin deficiency and internal heat, and spleen and kidney yin deficiency. Common symptoms such as mental fatigue, dry mouth and throat, upset and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus.
17 tongue coating is thin and crimson.
Tongue quality: slightly dry
Tongue coating: thin
Tongue color: crimson
This tongue picture suggests phlegm blocking blood stasis, yin deficiency of lung and kidney and excessive internal fire. Bitter mouth and dry mouth, dry stool, short and red urine, dreaminess at night and other common symptoms.
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Looking back:
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 1: tongue shape and tongue surface)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 2: tongue size)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 3: thickness of tongue coating)
Traditional Chinese Medicine Health: Zero-based Tongue Diagnosis (Lecture 4: Color of Tongue Coating)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 5: typical tongue picture of qi deficiency constitution)
Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 6: typical tongue picture of yang deficiency constitution)
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