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characteristics of a person "with spirit"
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complexion: lustrous
eyes have lustre and brightness state of mind is alert and clear even breathing |
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characteristics of a person "without spirit"
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Complextion has no lustre, and dull
Eyes are dull and cloudy state of mind is dull and depressed breathing is laboured or shallow |
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characteristics of a person with "false spirit"
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Suddenness to be vigorous, clear look in eyes, talk incessantly and want to meet family members, appetite improvement, bright red complexion
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Excess body movement usually indicates:
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A Yang/Full/Heat condition
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Lack of body movement usually indicates:
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A Yin/Empty/Cold condition
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An overweight body size usually indicates:
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Qi deficiency (mostly SP Qi def) if they eat a lot with strong muscle and are forceful: excess condition, if they are eating less, flabby muscle and skin, fatigue and lacking strength: Qi deficiency
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An emaciate persons body size usually indicates:
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Blood deficiency.
If they eat a lot, there is excessive fire in the middle jiao or stomach. If they eat less, with loose stool, and pale tongue it is (Zhong Qi deficiency) |
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How does blood deficiency show in the face?
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Sallow white color
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How does qi deficiency show in the face?
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Pale white color
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How does yang deficiency show in the face?
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Bright white color
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How does cold show in the face?
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Bluish white color
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What does the color white usually indicate?
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Deficiency
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How does stomach and spleen qi deficiency show in the face?
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Sallow yellow color
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How does spleen deficiency with dampness show in the face?
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Swelling yellow color
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How does Damp-Heat (Yang huang) show in the face?
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Bright orange yellow color
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How does Damp-Cold (Yin huang) show in the face?
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Dull smoky yellow color
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What does the color yellow usually indicate?
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Spleen deficiency and dampness
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How does full heat show in the face?
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Whole face is red.
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How does Empty-Heat (Yin def) show in the face?
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Lightly red cheekbones in the afternoon.
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How does Dai-Yang syndrome show?
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Pale complexion with red, to look like makeup.
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What does the color red usually indicate?
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Heat
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How does cold in the liver channel present in the face?
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Dark bluish under the eyes
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How does cold and chronic pain show in the face?
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A white-bluish complexion
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How does Heart-Yang def with blood stasis show in the face?
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Dull bluish complexion
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What does a bluish complexion in children usually mean?
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Liver-Wind
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Which facial area represents the heart?
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Birdge of nose
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Which facial area represents the spleen?
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Tip of the nose
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What facial area represents the Lung?
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Left cheek
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What facial area represents the Liver?
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Right cheek
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What facial area represents the Kidney?
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Chin
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What part of the eye represents the Kidney?
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Pupils
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What part of the eye represents the Liver?
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Iris
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What part of the eye represents the Heart?
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corners
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What part of the eye represents the Lung?
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Sclera
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What part of the eye represents the Spleen?
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Upper eyelid
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What part of the eye represents the Stomach?
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Lower eyelid
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What does a red and swollen upper lid represent?
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Spleen-Heat
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A red and swollen lower lid represents:
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Stomach-Heat
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If both lids are red, this indicates:
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Damp-Heat in Spleen
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If there are red lids with acute onset, this indicates:
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Wind-heat
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If there is redness inside the lower lids, this indicates:
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Full heat
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If there is a thin red line inside the lower lids, this indicates:
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Empty-Heat
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If the lids are cinnabar red with a small water blister, this indicates;
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Damp-Heat
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If the lids are Dark red with swollen lids this indicates:
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Phlegm-Heat
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If the lids are itchy and hot, with watery eyes, this can indicate;
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Wind, Heat, Dampness, or Heat-Fire
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If the lids are dark, this indicates:
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Kidney deficiency
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If the lids are dark, with a dull-yellow complexion, this indicates:
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Wind-Phlegm
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If the lids are pale with swollen lids, this indicates:
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Cold-Dampness in Spleen
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If there is paleness inside the lids, this indicates:
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Blood, or Yang deficiency
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If the lids are pale surrounded by yellow inside the lids, this indicates:
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Food retention
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Green lids indicate:
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Stomach-Cold
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Greyish, dull, or sooty lids indicate:
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Cold-Phlegm
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The tip of the nose represents:
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The spleen and stomach
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The bridge of the nose represents:
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the Liver
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The root of the nose represents:
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the Heart
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Red and swollen lips indicate:
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Full-Heat
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Red and dry lips indicate:
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Empty-Heat
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Bright red lips indicate:
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Wind-Heat, Qi level
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Bright, cracked and dry lips indicate:
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Fire
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What do yellow lips indicate?
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Dampness with heat or cold (stomach, spleen) or Full-Heat with Blood stasis
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Pale, slightly dry lips indicate:
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Blood def of Spleen or liver
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Pale, moist lips indicate:
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Yang deficiency
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Pale, greyish lips indicate:
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severe blood deficiency
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Reddish purple lips indicate:
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Blood stasis at the nutritive qi and blood level.
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bluish purple lips indicate:
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Full or empty cold, phlegm retention in lung
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Bluish lips indicate:
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Full or empty cold
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Greenish lips indicate:
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Blood stasis
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Dry and slightly red lips indicate:
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Empty-Heat of the Spleen, or Stomach-Yin deficiency
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Dry and pale lips indicate:
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Liver-blood deficiency
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Cracked and red lips indicate:
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Full-Heat in Stomach and Spleen
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Dry and purple lips indicate
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Blood stasis
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Dry lips with acute onset indicate:
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Wind-Heat
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Peeled lips indicate:
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Spleen-Heat, Empty-Heat (Spleen-Yin deficiency)
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Swollen lips indicate:
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Damp-Heat, Toxic-Heat, or acute allergic reaction
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What causes goiter?
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Qi stagnation, Phlegm retention, and blood stasis
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the back of the tongue represents:
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Kidney, Bladder, and Intestines
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the middle of the tongue represents:
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Stomach and Spleen
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the front of the tongue represents:
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Lung
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The tip of the tongue represents:
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Heart
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The Left side of the tongue represents:
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Gallbladder
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The Right side of the tongue represents:
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Liver
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A pale tongue can indicate either:
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Yang deficiency (slightly wet) or blood deficiency (Slightly dry)
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Red tongue indicates Heat. However, what does the added coating represent?
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w/ coating is full-heat
w/o coating is empty-heat |
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What do red spots on the tongue indicate?
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heat with some blood stasis
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a purple tongue indicates blood stasis, but what are the variations?
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Reddish purple indicates heat and blood stasis, and bluish purple indicates cold with blood stasis.
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A sublingual tongue that is distended and w/o color indicates:
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Qi deficiency
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A thin tongue indicates:
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Yin deficiency
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a purple sublingual tongue indicates:
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Wind-stroke
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A thin tongue can indicate:
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blood deficiency if pale, yin deficiency if red w/o coating
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when the whole tongue is swollen, this constitutes:
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Dampness or Phlegm
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If the tongue is only partially swollen, this constitutes:
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Qi deficiency, Qi stagnation, Heat
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If the tongue is swollen with red sides:
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Liver-Fire
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If the tongue is swollen in the chest/ breast area:
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Phlegm retention in the chest or breast, Lung-Qi deficiency
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If the tongue has a swollen tip:
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Heart-Heat or Heart-Fire and severe emotional problems.
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If the tongue is swollen in the front third:
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Phlegm retention in Lung
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If the tongue is stiff:
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Internal wind, Blood stasis, severe Yin def with a speech problem.
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If the tongue is flaccid:
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lack of body fluids or blood. the tongue will look "crumpled"
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a Long tongue indicates:
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Heat
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a short tongue can indicate:
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severe internal cold with yang deficiency (pale)
severe Yin deficiency (red without coating) |
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a horizontal crack in the tongue indicates:
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Yin def of stomach and kidney
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a irregular or central short crack in the tongue indicates:
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Stomach-Yin deficiency
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short, transverse cracks on sides of tongue indicate
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Spleen-Yin deficiency
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Short, transverse cracks behind the tip indicate
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past Lung pathology
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If there is very deep, midline cracks with small cracks, usually with a Red tongue w/o coating, this indicates:
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severe Kidney-Yin deficiency with empty-heat in the kidney and heart
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a heart crack can come in two forms. what are those?
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shallow and normal body color shows a constitutional tendency to a Heart pattern, a deep heart crack shows a heart pattern due to emotional stress
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a quivering tongue indicates:
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spleen-qi, or spleen yang deficiency
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a moving tongue indicates:
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Internal wind (elder)
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a deviated tongue indicates:
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Internal wind (elder), or heart deficiency (young person)
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a toothmarked tongue indicates
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spleen-qi deficiency
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thin coating with root
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healthy stomach-qi
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thick coating with root
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strong pathogenic factor with intact stomach qi
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thin coating without root
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Stomach-qi weakened
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thick coating without root
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strong, pathogenic factor, stomach-qi weakened
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thin coating becomes thick
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pathogenic factor getting stronger or penetrating deeper into the interior
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thick coating in center
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pathogenic factor in stomach
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thick coating on root
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pathogenic factor in the bladder or intestine
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White coating on tongue
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cold pattern, external, dampness
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yellow coating on tongue
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full-heat
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grey and black coating on tongue
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extreme cold, wet or extreme heat, dry
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if the tongue coating is too dry
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Full/empty heat, yin deficiency
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if the tongue coating is too wet
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severe yang deficiency, dampness
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if the tongue coating is sticky
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dampness or phlegm
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If the tongue coating is slippery
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dampness and phlegm, oily, can't see papillae
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if the tongue coating is mouldy
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dampness or phlegm with stomach-yin deficiency, mostly only in elderly.
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if the tongue coating is normal
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white and thin enough to see the body color, naturally thicker at the root and thinnest towards the tip, does not extend to the edges of the tongue
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presence or absence of coating
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state of stomach qi
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excessive thickness coating with root
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full condition
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sudden total or partial disappear
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poor prognosis
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partial without coating
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severe stomach qi deficiency (geographic)
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total absence of coating
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stomach, kidney, yin deficiency
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coating return gradually and slowly
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positive sign
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coating return suddenly
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bad sign
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distention more than pain or distending pain, not fixed
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stagnation of qi
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severe boring or stabbing pain
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blood stasis
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distending, throbbing pain of the head
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liver-yang rising
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cramping spastic pain, aggravated by cold, alleviated by heat
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cold
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accompanied by dampness, burning pain with fullness and heaviness, better with cold
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Heat
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Intense and full
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retention of food
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heaviness, sticky tongue, softer than blood stasis
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phlegm
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stiff neck, occipital h/a and stiffness
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external windq
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vomit indicates
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rebellious stomach qi
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sour vomit
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liver invading stomach
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bitter vomit
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liver and/or gallbladder heat
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clear and watery vomit
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cold in stomach with retention of fluids
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vomit soon after eating
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heat in stomach
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vomit sudden with food noise
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full pattern
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vomit slow with weak noise
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empty pattern
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