Tongue Body Shape
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- Thin
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Deficient Blood (page body)
Deficient Yin (red body) - Swollen
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Spleen and/or Kidney yang deficiency w/ dampness
Damp-heat in Stomach & Spleen
Heart & Stomach heat (red body)
Alcoholic toxin (red body)
Toxin - Swollen edges
- Spleen QI deficiency
- Swollen Sides
- Ascendant Liver yang or Liver fire
- Swollen tip
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Heart fire blazing (red body)
Heart QI deficiency (normal color) - Swollen btwn tip and center
- Lung Qi deficiency w/retention of phlegm
- Swollen along central crack
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Heart fire blazing (red body)
Heart Qi deficiency (normal color) - Half swollen
- Weakness of the channels
- Partly swollen on side
- Deficiency or stagnation of Qi in chest
- Half surface swollen
- Lung Qi deficiency
- Hammer-shaped
- Stomach, Spleen & Kidney deficiency
- Stiff
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Exterior heat invading Pericardium (red or dark red body)
Heat injuring body fluids (red body)
Blazing Heart fire
Internal wind (normal color) - Flaccid
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Exhausted Qi and Blood (pale body)
Extreme heat injuring fluids (red body)
Kidney Yin deficiency w/ heat (deep red body) - Long
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Blazing Heart fire
Phelgm-fire in Heart - Short
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Spleen yand deficiency, internal cold (pale body)
Heat stirring Liver wind (red body)
Insufficiency of body fluids due to heat from excess (red body w/coating)
Deficiency heat (red body w/o coating
Spleen yang deficiency w/dampness a phlegm (pale body w/slippery coating) - Cracked
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Horizontal cracks: yin deficiency
Cracks like ice flows: yin deficiency from old age
Irregular cracks: stomach yin deficiency
Transverse cracks on sides: Spleen Qi deficiency
Vertical cracks in center" Heart yin deficiency or blazing Heart fire
Transverse cracks behind tip: Lung yin deficiency
Very deep central crack w/other small cracks: Kidney yin deficiency w/heat - Loose
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Interior excess heat (red body)
Phlegm-fire clouding heart (red body w/slippery coating)
Heart Qi deficiency (pale body) - Deviated
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Exterior wind invading channels (normal color)
Interior Liver wind (red or normal color)
Heart Qi deficiency (pale body) - Numb
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Heart blood deficiency (pale body)
Liver wind (red or normal color)
Wind-phlegm (slippery coating) - Moving
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Heart fire and internal wind (red body)
Spleen heat w/exhaustion of body fluids (red a dry body) - Quivering
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Spleen Qi deficiency (pale body)
Extreme heat generqating internal wind (red body)
Collapse of Heart a Spleen Qi (pale body)
Collapse of yang (pale a thin body) - Rolled
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Heat from excess (tip rolled over)
Deficiency heat (tip rolled under) - Tooth-marked
- Spleen Qi deficiency
- Ulcerated
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Blazing Heart fire (red body)
Heart heat from Kidney yin deficiency (red a peeled body)
Spleen a Kidney heat (red body) - Sore-covered
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Heat toxin in Heart channel (red body)
Deficiency heat (red a peeled body)