Traditional Chinese medicine: tongue diagnosis

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Appendix 8 Traditional Chinese medicine: tongue diagnosis

ATTRIBUTE¹	DESCRIPTION¹	CAUSE¹
Colour	Pale Red Deep-Red Purple Blue	Deficiency of yang (tongue also wet) or Blood deficiency (dry tongue) Heat Severe heat Blood stasis Interior cold giving rise to Blood Stasis
Shape	Thin Swollen Stiff Flaccid Long Short Cracked Quivering Teethmarks	Blood deficiency (pale) or yin deficiency (red) Damp or damp heat (red) Interior wind Yin deficiency Heat (particularly heart heat) Interior cold (if pale and wet) Yin deficiency (red and peeled) Full heat or yin deficiency Spleen Qi deficiency Spleen Qi deficiency
Coating	White Yellow Grey/black	Cold pattern Full-heat pattern Extreme cold/heat (if wet/dry)

Reference

1. Maciocia G. The foundations of Chinese medicine. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.

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