Cstcm - D&d - Quiz 2

Front 1

Topography of Tongue

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(Image)

Front 2

What are the four main Observation Items of the tongue?

Back 2

Tongue-body colour
Tongue-body shape
Tongue coating
Tongue moisture

Front 3

The normal body colour of the tongue is what?

Back 3

Pale red

Front 4

What does the color of the tongue body represent?

Back 4

Condition of Heat/Cold and Yin/Yang deficiency.

Front 5

Pale tongue-body colour indicates what?

Back 5

Yang Deficiency (slightly wet)
-or-
Blood Deficiency (slightly dry)

Front 6

A basic red tongue-body colour indicates what?

Back 6

Heat

Front 7

A red tongue-body colour with a coating indicates what?

Back 7

Full-Heat

Front 8

A red tongue-body colour without a coating indicates what?

Back 8

Empty-Heat

Front 9

A red tongue-body colour with red spots indicates what?

Back 9

Heat with some Blood stasis

Front 10

A basic purple tongue-body colour indicates what?

Back 10

Blood stasis

Front 11

A reddish purple tongue-body colour indicates what?

Back 11

Heat and Blood stasis

Front 12

A bluish purple tongue-body colour indicates what?

Back 12

Cold and Blood stasis

Front 13

Sublingual veins that are thin indicate what?

Back 13

Yin Deficiency

Front 14

Sublingual veins that are distended indicate what?

Back 14

Qi Deficiency

Front 15

Sublingual veins that are distended and purple indicate what?

Back 15

Blood Stasis

Front 16

Sublingual veins that have purple rice grains indicate what?

Back 16

Heart issues and hardening of the arteries

Front 17

A long tongue indicates what?

Back 17

Heat

Front 18

A short and pale tongue indicates what?

Back 18

Severe internal Cold and Yang deficiency

Front 19

A short and red tongue without a coating indicates what?

Back 19

Severe Yin deficiency

Front 20

A horizontally cracked tongue indicates what?

Back 20

Yin deficiency of Stomach and Kidney

Front 21

An irregular or central short crack in the tongue indicates what?

Back 21

Stomach-Yin deficiency

Front 22

Short, transverse cracks on the sides of the tongue indicates what?

Back 22

Spleen-Yin deficiency

Front 23

Short, transverse cracks behind the tip of the tongue indicates what?

Back 23

Past Lung pathology

Front 24

Very deep midline cracks with small cracks, usually with a Red tongue without coating indicates what?

Back 24

Severe Kidney-Yin deficiency with Empty-Heat in the Kidney and Heart

Front 25

A Heart crack that is shallow with a normal body colour indicates what?

Back 25

A constitutional tendency to Heart pattern

Front 26

A deep heart crack on the tongue indicates what?

Back 26

Heart pattern due to emotional stress

Front 27

A quivering tongue indicates what?

Back 27

Spleen-Qi or Spleen-Yang deficiency

Note: Other body signs will be present like cold feet

Front 28

A moving tongue indicates what?

Back 28

internal Wind (elder)

Front 29

A deviated tongue indicates what?

Back 29

Internal Wind (elderly)
-or-
Heart deficiency (young person)

Front 30

The coating of the tongue reflects what group of organs?

Back 30

Yang Organs

Front 31

The body of the tongue reflects what group of organs?

Back 31

Yin Organs

Front 32

The overall tongue-body shape indicates what?

Back 32

The Full/Empty Condition

Front 33

A thin tongue-body shape that is pale indicates what?

Back 33

Blood deficiency

Front 34

A thin tongue-body shape that is red without a coating indicates what?

Back 34

Yin deficiency

Front 35

A swollen (whole; horizontal) tongue-body shape indicates what?

Back 35

Dampness or Phlegm

Front 36

A partially swollen tongue-body shape indicates what?

Back 36

Qi deficiency, Qi stagnation, Heat

Front 37

A swollen tongue-body shape with red sides indicates what?

Back 37

Liver-Fire

Front 38

A tongue-body shape that is swollen in the chest/breast area indicates what?

Back 38

Phlegm retention in the chest or breast, Lung-Qi deficiency

Front 39

A tongue-body shape that is swollen on the tip indicates what?

Back 39

Heart-Heat or Heart-Fire

Front 40

A tongue-body shape that is swollen on the front third of the tongue indicates what?

Back 40

Phlegm retention in Lung

Front 41

A stiff tongue-body shape indicates what?

Back 41

Internal Wind, Blood stasis, severe Yin deficiency

Front 42

A flaccid tongue-body shape indicates what?

Back 42

Lack of Body Fluids or Blood

Front 43

The overall tongue coating reflects what?

Back 43

The normal function of Stomach-Qi. It also reflects conditions of Yang organs Empty/Full and Cold/Heat

Front 44

A thin coating with root on the tongue indicates what?

Back 44

Healthy Stomach-Qi

Front 45

A thick coating with root on the tongue indicates what?

Back 45

Strong pathogenic factor with intact Stomach-Qi

Front 46

A thin coating without root on the tongue indicates what?

Back 46

Stomach-Qi weakened

Front 47

A thick coating without root on the tongue indicates what?

Back 47

Strong pathogenic factor, Stomach- Qi weakened

Front 48

The overall thickness of the coating on the tongue indicates what?

Back 48

it reflects the strength of the pathogenic factor

Front 49

A thin coating that becomes thick on the tongue indicates what?

Back 49

Pathogenic factor getting stronger or penetrating deeper into the interior

Front 50

A thick tongue coating located in the center of the tongue indicates what?

Back 50

Pathogenic factor in Stomach

Front 51

A thin coating on root of the tongue indicates what?

Back 51

Pathogenic factor in the Bladder or Intestine

Front 52

A white coating color of the tongue indicates what?

Back 52

Cold pattern, external, dampness

Front 53

A yellow coating color of the tongue indicates what?

Back 53

Full-Heat

Front 54

A gray or black coating color of the tongue indicates what?

Back 54

Extreme Cold, wet
-or-
Extreme Heat, dry

Front 55

The overall coating moisture of the tongue indicates what?

Back 55

A good supply and movement of Body Fluids

Front 56

A coating moisture of the tongue that is too dry indicates what?

Back 56

Full/Empty Heat, Yin deficiency

Front 57

A coating moisture of the tongue that is too wet indicates what?

Back 57

Severe Yang deficiency, Dampness

Front 58

What is a healthy overall coating texture of the tongue?

Back 58

It can be clearly seen, not too dry, not too wet

Front 59

A sticky coating texture of the tongue indicates what?

Back 59

Dampness and Phlegm

Front 60

A slippery coating texture of the tongue indicates what?

Back 60

Dampness and Phlegm

Front 61

A mouldy coating texture of the tongue indicates what?

Back 61

Dampness or Phlegm with Stomach-Yin deficiency (only found in the elderly)

Front 62

What are the characteristics of a normal coating on the tongue?

Back 62

white and thin enough to see The body colour naturally is thicker at the root and thinnest towards the tip, not extend to the very edges of the tongue

Front 63

Excessive thickness coating with root of the tongue indicates what?

Back 63

Full condition

Front 64

Sudden total or partial disappear of the tongue indicates what?

Back 64

Poor prognosis

Front 65

Partial coating of the tongue indicates what?

Back 65

Severe Stomach-Qi deficiency

Front 66

Total absence of coating of the tongue indicates what?

Back 66

Stomach- Kidney-Yin deficiency

Front 67

Coating of the tongue returned gradually and slowly indicates what?

Back 67

Positive sign

Front 68

Coating of the tongue returning suddenly indicates what?

Back 68

Bad sign

Front 69

What does it mean if a tongue is "with root"?

Back 69

It means that the coating cannot simply be brushed away with a tootbrush

Front 70

What is the typical size (weight) of a patient with Stomach Qi Deficiency?

Back 70

The patient is thin (underweight)

Front 71

What is the typical size (weight) of a patient with Spleen Qi Deficiency?

Back 71

The patient is thick (overweight)

Front 72

What does a mirror tongue indicate?

Back 72

Yin Deficiency

Front 73

A white coating of the tongue (in external disease) indicates what?

Back 73

The very beginning stages of an invasion of Wind even Wind-Heat

Front 74

A white coating that turns to yellow on the tongue (in external disease) indicates what?

Back 74

A change from Cold to Heat and from exterior to interior

Front 75

A coating of the tongue that is more concentrated in the front third of the tongue or the on the sides of the tongue (in external disease) indicates what?

Back 75

Exterior

Front 76

A coating in the center of the tongue (in external disease) indicates what?

Back 76

Interior

Front 77

A slightly pale tongue indicates what?

Back 77

Qi-deficiency

Front 78

Teethmarks or swelling on the central sides of the tongue indicates what?

Back 78

Spleen-Qi deficiency

Front 79

Rootless coating or with lack of coating in centre of the tongue indicates what?

Back 79

Stomach-Qi deficiency

Front 80

Definitely pale tongue that tends to be slightly wet indicates what?

Back 80

Yang-deficiency tongue

Front 81

A pale and swollen tongue indicates what?

Back 81

Severe Yang-deficiency

Front 82

A pale tongue that tends to be slightly dry indicates what?

Back 82

Blood-deficiency tongue

Front 83

A tongue that is pale on the sides indicates what?

Back 83

Liver-Blood deficiency

Front 84

A tongue that is pale in the chest area indicates what?

Back 84

Heart-Blood deficiency

Front 85

A lack of coating on the tongue indicates what?

Back 85

Yin-deficiency tongue

Front 86

A lack of coating and redness on the tongue indicates what?

Back 86

Yin-deficiency and Empty-Heat

Front 87

A lack of coating or crack in the center of the tongue indicates what?

Back 87

Stomach-Yin deficiency

Front 88

A lack of coating in the front third of the tongue indicates what?

Back 88

Lung-Yin deficiency

Front 89

A lack of coating all over with a red body color of the tongue indicates what?

Back 89

Kidney-Yin deficiency

Front 90

A pale red with thin-white coating (with root) of the tongue indicates which of the six stages of Yin Deficiency?

Back 90

Good stomach Qi

Front 91

A rootless coating in the centre and a normal body colour of the tongue indicates which of the six stages of Yin Deficiency?

Back 91

Beginning of Stomach-Qi deficiency

Front 92

A rootless coating all over and a normal body colour of the tongue indicates which of the six stages of Yin Deficiency?

Back 92

Stomach-Qi deficiency

Front 93

A rootless coating all over but missing in the centre with a normal body colour and a centre red color of the tongue indicates which of the six stages of Yin Deficiency?

Back 93

Beginning of Stomach-Yin deficiency

Front 94

A coating that is missing all over with a normal body colour of the tongue indicates which of the six stages of Yin Deficiency?

Back 94

Advanced Stomach-Yin deficiency

Front 95

A coating that is missing all over with a red body color and
deep midline Stomach cracks ( and other scattered cracks)
of the tongue indicates which of the six stages of Yin Deficiency?

Back 95

Advanced Yin deficiency with Empty-Heat of Stomach and other organs

Front 96

A swollen tongue with a sticky coating indicates what?

Back 96

The tongue in phlegm and dampness

Front 97

A tongue that has a coating that appears to be more slippery than smooth indicates what?

Back 97

Dampness

Front 98

A tongue coating that tends to be slightly rough and sticky indicates what?

Back 98

Phlegm

Front 99

A tongue in heat with a coating indicates what?

Back 99

Full-Heat

Front 100

A tongue in heat without a coating indicates what?

Back 100

Empty-Heat

Front 101

A tongue that is slightly red on the sides/front indicates a pattern in which of the four levels?

Back 101

Defensive-Qi level

Front 102

A red tongue with a dark-yellow coating indicates a pattern in which of the four levels?

Back 102

Qi level

Front 103

A red tongue without a coating indicates a pattern in which of the four levels?

Back 103

Nutritive-Qi level

Front 104

A dark red and dry tongue without a coating indicates a pattern in which of the four levels?

Back 104

Blood level

Front 105

The overall tongue body color on a tongue in cold indicates what?

Back 105

It is affecting Yin organs

Front 106

The overall coating on a tongue in cold indicates what?

Back 106

It is affecting Yang organs

Front 107

A thick and white coating on a tongue in cold indicates what?

Back 107

Full Cold

Front 108

A pale and slightly white coating on a tongue in cold indicates what?

Back 108

Empty Cold

Front 109

A reddish sides (long-standing Qi stagnation has given rise to Heat) indicates what?

Back 109

Liver-Qi stagnation

Front 110

A purple color of the tongue (including sublingual veins indicates) what?

Back 110

Blood stasis

Front 111

A tongue that is Stiff, Moving, or Deviated indicates what?

Back 111

The tongue in internal wind

Front 112

A tongue in external invasion where the body colour doesn't change indicates what?

Back 112

Wind-Cold

Front 113

A tongue in external invasion where there is red in the front or sides (or both), especially in children, indicates what?

Back 113

Wind-Heat