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Health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine: zero-based tongue diagnosis (lecture 1: tongue shape and tongue surface)

Tongue diagnosis is a technique that can spy on body secrets. Blood deficiency, qi deficiency, phlegm dampness, or blood stasis? You can tell when you stick out your tongue. The most enviable thing is "Peach Blossom Tongue". Generally speaking, the purest tongue image of a person with a peaceful constitution is pink like a peach blossom, with a thin white coating on it. This enviable tongue image is called "Peach Blossom Tongue".

Observe the tongue in the order of tip of tongue-middle of tongue-root of tongue-side of tongue. First look at the tongue body and then look at the tongue coating, about 30 seconds. If you can't see the tongue clearly at one time, the patient can rest for 3~5 minutes and then observe.

The following is an ultra-clear color picture of common clinical tongue coating. With these high-definition tongue diagnostic pictures, you can know the health of your tongue. Everyone has one!

The size of the tongue

1 Fat tongue coating is deficient in cold.

Pay attention to the color, coating and red spots on the tongue.

Yellow tongue coating is mostly due to excess heat of heart and spleen; Those with swollen tongue and dark purple tongue mostly belong to blood stasis blocking collaterals.

2 Fat and pale tongue-Yang deficiency

Because the yang is weak, the functions of warming and pushing are affected, and the function of transporting water and liquid is weakened, so the tongue is fat and pale.

Pale and fat tongue is a sign of yang deficiency and retention of water and dampness.

3 thin red tongue-lack of nutrition

Red tongue indicates that there is heat in the body, or inflammation occurs, and the body fluid is damaged by heat for a long time, and the nutrients in the body are exhausted.

A thin tongue is proof that the body lacks nutrition and water.

4 thin and light tongue-deficiency of both qi and blood

If there are obvious moss marks on the thin and light tongue, most of them are accompanied by mild cold or indigestion, reminding patients of physical weakness.

It mainly reflects the pathological state of deficiency of both qi and blood and malnutrition.

5 old tongue-confrontation between good and evil

The color of tongue coating is yellow-white, gray-black, and the main symptoms are excess syndrome and heat syndrome.

Old tongue is common in the stage of stalemate between good and evil, that is, the momentum of disease and evil is fierce, but the body itself has strong resistance.

6 tender tongue-low metabolic function

Deficiency syndrome, cold syndrome and dampness syndrome.

This tongue picture often appears in sub-health people with weak visceral function, low nutritional metabolism function, poor physical resistance or weak constitution.

Matters needing attention in tongue diagnosis:

1. Slight impact

The intensity and hue of light have a great influence on color. It is best to look at the tongue when the natural light is sufficient and soft during the day. For example, at night or in the dark, it is best to use fluorescent lamps. The light should directly illuminate the tongue surface and avoid facing the colored doors and windows.

2. Dietary or drug effects

Diet and drugs can change the tongue image, while excessively cold and overheated diet and irritating food can change the tongue color. Overeating fat and sweets and taking a lot of sedatives will make the tongue coating thick and greasy.

3. The influence of oral cavity on tongue picture

The uneven teeth will cause the tongue coating on the same side to be thick, and the tooth inlay will leave tooth marks on the edge of the tongue. People who breathe with their mouths open when sleeping will make the tongue coating thicker. Clinically, careful screening should be done to avoid misdiagnosis.

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