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What is the tongue spirit?
Is the vitality of color. If the root of the tongue has good vibrant color the prognosis is good regardless of the presenting tongue.
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Body Color-most important aspect?
This is the color beneath the tongue coating. In terms of differentiation, it reflects the hot and cold.
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Body Shape of the Tongue
- Body Shape
- Features of Tongue
- Texture
- Body Movement
- Clinical significance:state of organs, qi and Blood
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Tongue coating?
- Observe root to tip.
- Color of coating-reflects hot and cold influences more directly than any other aspect of tongue diagnosis,
- White=cold, yellow=heat.
- Thickness of coating-reflects the strength of a pathogenic factor in externally contracted disease.
- Root-coating is 'firmly planted' in the tongue surface and grows out of it like grass grows from soil, the coating can't be scraped off.
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Tongue Moisture?
provides an indication of the status of the body's fluid, the normal tongue is slightly moist.
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