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of the most common questions that people ask about acupuncture is: Why does my acupuncturist
at my tongue?
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gue and pulse diagnosis are two of the more important diagnostic tools in Chinese medicine. They are
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h used to derive a TCM diagnosis for your condition which is used to plan your treatment. Generally the
gue, is much easier to learn and less subjective than pulse diagnosis. It is less meridian speciMc than the
e, however, the tongue will show the depth and nature (hot, cold, etc.) of an imbalance and it is less
cted by short-term inQuences such as nervousness. The tongue is also useful as a measurement tool to
ge the progress of a disorder.
ommon Tongue Geography and Meridian Correlations
ower Jiao
Base of the tongue corresponds to the Kidney, Urinary Bladder, Large Intestine and Small
stine Meridians.
iddle Jiao
sides of the tongue correspond to the Liver and Gall Bladder meridians. Some theories place the Gall
der on the patients left side and the Liver on the patients right side.
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Middle of the tongue corresponds to the Stomach and Spleen Meridians.
pper Jiao
Tip of the tongue corresponds to the Lung and the Heart
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w Can the Tongue Change?
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Acupuncture G.
Durand
Rosemont Petite Patrie et
Brossard Membre o.a.q
TONGUE BODY
ribute Characteristic Indication
Abnormality
Flourishing: bright with energetic movement and moist indicates
Spirit
pirit
Vitality of the
tongue
good Stomach Qi
Zang, Fu,
Qi, Blood,
Body Fluids Withering: dark and dry tongue with sluggish movement indicates
exhausted Stomach Qi
olour
ReQects true
Thermal
condition of
nature of
body
More Red: Blood overMlls tongue, more heat
the disease Less Red: Qi and blood are insufMcient, less heat, more deMciency
Rough: exuberant antipathogenic Qi and muscle Mbers bulge
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exture
xture Tough or tender
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ReQects
excess or
deMciency
Tender: Qi and Blood are deMcient and cannot Mll Mbers; Yang
deMciency cannot transform body Quids and cold-damp
accumulates
Large: overMlling of Blood, damp accumulation
Often
Size
Large or Small
reQects
constitution Small: lack of nutrition due to Qi, Blood and Body Fluid DeMciency
Cracks: malnourishment of Qi, Blood and Body Fluids due to heat

or dampness obstructing
Body
urface
rface
Moist, smooth Fluids, heat,

stasis
Prickles: heat pushes Qi and Blood up where they overMll the

tongue causing papillae to thrust out
Stiff: lack of nourishment due to internal organ deMciency or

phlegm/Blood stasis obstructing Qi and Blood resulting in
xibility
How the tongue

moves
Condition
stiffening of the tongue
of muscles
and sinews
Limp: sinews lack nourishment of Qi, Blood and Body Fluids and
do not have the strength to move
vement
Abnormal
movement
Pathogens
Spasm due to internal wind, usually due to hyperactive Liver,
or
internal heat or malnutrition. Can be trembling, deviated or
deMciency
protruding.
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Short: excessive cold causes contraction and spasm; malnutrition

causes phlegm to stagnate and obstruct; heat injures Body Fluids;
ength
How long the

tongue is
Pathogens
Qi and Blood deMciency due to Spleen and Kidney failure
or Internal
Organs
Long: excess pathogenic heat consumes Qi, Blood and Body

Fluids; internal organ failure resulting in the tongue being unable to
contract
TONGUE COATING
tribute
Indications
Abnormality
White: exterior or cold patterns; targets Lung and Large Intestine
Yellow: interior or heat patterns; targets Spleen and Stomach
Colour
Pathogenic factors
Gray: interior, heat or cold-damp patterns
Black: interior, extreme heat or extreme cold patterns
Thin: impaired Spleen or Stomach cannot evaporate and transform

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dampness; Kidney and Stomach Yin deMciency cannot send up Body
ickness
Antipathogenic Qi or
Fluids or damp turbidity is sent up.
depth of disease
Thick: Spleen and Stomach are stagnated by food or phlegm damp
and turbid damp steam rises
Dry: excessive pathogenic heat injures Body Fluids; internal organ

dysfunction leads to Yin deMciency
oisture
Condition of Body
Fluids
Wet: water damp attacks body due to Spleen or Kidney Yang
deMciency cannot transform Body Fluids
Distinguishes
ckiness
pathogenic factors,
Quid metabolism
Damp, phlegm, water or food stagnates and accumulates and the

Stomach Qi produces excess turbidity that steams upwards
Even: widespread pathogen, dampness obstructs middle jiao
tribution
Location and depth of

disease
Uneven: certain body parts or organs are affected, there will be

uneven distribution
eeling
State ofStomachQi &
DeMcient Stomach Qi or Yin results in exuberant rising of turbid
Yin
dampness or Stomach Yang, burning Quids.
Rooted: sufMcient Stomach Qi that is attached to tongue tightly,

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difMcult to scrape off
Pathogen severity,
ooting
condition of Stomach
Qi & antipathogens
Unrooted: insufMcient Stomach Qi due to Qi deMciency in the

Stomach or Kidney
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