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The Condition of Your Body Reflected on Your Tongue! Cold, Heat, Dryness, and Dampness – Just Stick Out Your Tongue to Know! (Tongue Quality)

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The Condition of Your Body Reflected on Your Tongue! Cold, Heat, Dryness, and Dampness - Just Stick Out Your Tongue to Know! (Tongue Quality)

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the practice of “observing, listening, questioning, and palpating” is essential. When visiting a hospital, doctors not only inquire about symptoms but also ask patients to stick out their tongues. By examining the tongue, doctors can gain insights into the patient’s condition. This method is known as “tongue diagnosis” in TCM, … Read more

Tongue Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Characteristics of Tongue Coating

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Tongue Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Characteristics of Tongue Coating

Tongue diagnosis is a crucial aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), serving as a simple and effective method for diagnosis and differentiation by observing the color and shape changes of the tongue. During tongue diagnosis, observations are made in the order of tip of the tongue – middle of the tongue – root of the … Read more

16 Classic Tongue Images to Reveal Your Internal Health Status

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16 Classic Tongue Images to Reveal Your Internal Health Status

Click on “Yang Dad” above to follow usObserving the tongue can provide insights into the overall health status of the body.When examining the tongue, we focus on two main aspects.First, we look at the tongue body, which is the muscular and vascular structure of the tongue; second, we examine the tongue coating, which is the … Read more

Understanding Tongue Diagnosis: The Nature of Tongue Quality

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Understanding Tongue Diagnosis: The Nature of Tongue Quality

Let’s talk about what tongue quality is, which refers to the thin layer of coating on our tongue, known as shè tái (tongue coating). This coating is produced by qì (qi) and its thickness determines the strength or weakness of pathogenic factors in our body. The shè zhì (tongue quality) represents the adequacy of our … Read more

The Tongue as a Window to Body Constitution: TCM Insights on Tongue Diagnosis and Herbal Prescription

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The Tongue as a Window to Body Constitution: TCM Insights on Tongue Diagnosis and Herbal Prescription

Tongue diagnosis is an important component of the four diagnostic methods in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which include observation, listening, inquiry, and palpation. It plays a significant role in clinical diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis assessment. TCM places great emphasis on the identification of tongue patterns and has summarized the application rules of tongue appearance in … Read more

Self-Assessment of Body Constitution Through Tongue Observation

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Self-Assessment of Body Constitution Through Tongue Observation

The tongue is an organ that can reflect the state of blood fullness in the body through its semi-transparent mucosa. In tongue diagnosis, this is referred to as observing the tongue quality (舌质, shé zhì). It can indicate whether our body’s vital energy (正气, zhèng qì) is sufficient. For example, if the blood in the … Read more

Tongue Diagnosis: Insights into Body Health

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Tongue Diagnosis: Insights into Body Health

Sharing positive energy knowledge on pregnancy, parenting, early education, health preservation, gourmet food, and literature. Big Tongue Wu Kequn – The Great Trickster This music cannot be played due to copyright issues, please change the music. ​ The tongue is the most sensitive organ in the human body, and the tongue mucosa is the most … Read more

Is Your Body Healthy? The Changes in Your Tongue May Indicate Disease!

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Is Your Body Healthy? The Changes in Your Tongue May Indicate Disease!

Observing the tongue is an important part of TCM diagnosis and treatment because the changes reflected in the tongue often precede our own feelings of discomfort. The tongue can serve as a prompt or warning and is therefore referred to as the “mirror of disease”. In daily life, how can we self-monitor our health status … Read more

Comprehensive Guide to 22 Types of Tongue Diagnosis: Understand Your Body Through Your Tongue

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Comprehensive Guide to 22 Types of Tongue Diagnosis: Understand Your Body Through Your Tongue

Comprehensive Guide to 22 Types of Tongue Diagnosis: Understand Your Body Through Your Tongue. 1. Normal Tongue Appearance Normal Tongue Appearance: The tongue is soft, flexible, light red in color, and covered with a thin, evenly distributed, moderately moist white coating, often described as “light red tongue with thin white coating”. Observing the tongue mainly … Read more

Fundamentals of Tongue Diagnosis | Normal Tongue Appearance and Different Tongue Qualities (Illustrated)

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Fundamentals of Tongue Diagnosis | Normal Tongue Appearance and Different Tongue Qualities (Illustrated)

Click above“Family Medicine Magazine”Follow usAuthor: Zhu Kangmei Position: Chief Physician of Internal Medicine, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese MedicineIntroduction: This article is the fourth in the series on “Fundamentals of Tongue Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine“. Through previous introductions, we have learned about the causes of abnormal tongue sensations (1), how … Read more