3.8 Tongue quality and Suggestion of disorders
Tongue Picture
Puffy and swoiien
Small and thin
Marked lissunis
Teeth imprints aJoLig the outer –rdge
Hyperpleistie Hngual pipIae eawng a pdcklv ftdit.g when they arc touched
Type Quality
Thin coating: a thin ear of fur
thin coat through which the Loroe proper is
ngvlisible
Thick coat [rig; a thick layer of fur
Dry coating: dry or rough, Stld oil ensye whale Lcuched Injury budy fluid due to oinsuinptiure of Yin-fluid and of lure of it to reach the tongue surface
Moist coating A modzirately access of darrip-pblegni or eold-dampDoaflhig inoz-n-ird; bin too mucfiness
mnrture Furtris a glesw coating
Sticky Lijtlitlg: a layer of lurbid, Caused by pathogenic the that brings sticky, compact and uttle grain-like food dicto turbid siomach-Qi upcoating, dlliculx to ut scraped of ward; Tidicated for retention of Curd Like cxaiing thick. flabby dampness, phlegm, phlegm-dampcoating with :arge granules that reness. Damp Heal and cold-dampness scmhie crushed bean rurd easy to be ecraped off
Suggcsiion of winds
hiltial stage of a disease. a mild case
with pathogenic factors in the exitexuberance of pathogenic Ituxorsl in hroug which the tongue proper is? vasion of the intreior by pathogenic
nvisiblc factors, a severe case due to reten to fcod, phlegmdampness
If coat Dry moist? Sticky and curd- like coating
3.9 What is the clinical significance of tongue inspection?
It has been proved by clinical practice that the change of the tongue condition may relatively and objectively reflect the prosperity and decline of Qi and blood, the nature of patbogenoic factors, location of a disease, its alleva1iori or deterioration and prognosis. Under certain conditions, it serves as the chief basis in differentiation of syndromes. Therefores , tongue inspection is significant clinically
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