Tongue Color Indications
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- Pale and slightly dry
- Blood deficiency
- Pale and Wet
- Yang deficiency
- Pale, bright & shiny
- Qi and blood deficiency, esp ST & SP
- Red w/coating
- Heat in the nutritive or blood levels
- Red w/o coating
- Yin deficiency w/ heat
- Red & wet
- Heat w/ retention of dampness
- Red & dry w/coating
- Heat from excess burning body fluids
- Red & dry w/o coating
- Deficiency heat and exhaustion of body fluids
- Red & shiny
- Stomach and/or Kidney yin deficiency
- Red and scarlet
- Lung or Heart yin deficiency
- Red w/red points or spots
- Heat w/blood stasis
- Red w/prickles
- Heat in the nutritive level or in the upper or middle burner
- Red w/ purple spot in center
- Blood stasis and heat in ST
- Red & peeled
- Heat from ST & KID Yin deficiency
- Dark red w/dry center
- ST fire blazing or ST Yin deficiency w/heat
- Reddish purple
- Heat & blood stasis
- Reddish purple & distended
- Extreme heat w/blood stasis and toxin from alcohol injuring the Heart
- Bluish purple
- Blood stasis from internal cold
- Bluish purple and moist
- Blood stasis from internal cold stiffening the tendons and bones
- Blue
- Severe internal cold w/blood stasis
- Blue w/o coating
- Severe internal cold w/stasis and exhaustion of blood
- Blue central surface
- Spleen yang deficiency w/retention of phlegm in chest
- Blue in a pregnant woman
- Danger of imminent miscarriage
- Distended veins on underside of tongue
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Deficiency and stagnation of QI
If veins also dark: Blood stasis - Blue in a pregnant woman
- Danger of imminent miscarriage