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Exterior General:
1. coating in front or around center-confirms exterior condition
2. thickness-strenght of evil
3. exterior condition-evil residing in skin, muscles, sinews, and channels
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| white around the edges, yellow at the center |
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| enterior moving to interior |
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Wind Cold Condition:
1. thin coating with wind cold indicates
2. white coat indicates
3. overly moist tongue coat indicates |
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1. evil is not yet strong
2. evil scraped off but soon returns and indicates cold
3. accumulation of fluids
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| if during wind cold attack, the whole coating is white and dry and difficult to scrape off and covers the entire tongue: |
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wind cold goint interior
may become FIRE |
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| if during a wind cold attack the tongue is thin white with dry prickles coating... |
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cold is about to transform to heat
the dry prickles indicate: Lu fluids injured |
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| if during an exterior invasion, the coating is thin, white, greasy |
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damp cold is in its initial states
greasy=dampness |
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| color and shape of tongue body cofirms |
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| if the tongue is yellow on the edges and white in the center |
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| interior pathogen moving to exterior |
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| if there is an absence of coating |
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| the pathogen is in the interior |
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Shaoyang tongue examples:
1. white and slightly slippeyr only on the right side
2. red body with white coating on tip only
3. white coat on tip and black on root
4.white coating on tip and gray on root |
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| pathogen is 1/2 interior and 1/2 exterior |
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| blue tongue body indicates |
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| chronic retention of cold |
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| purple blue tongue body indicates |
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| prolonged cold retention-blood stag |
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Red tongue:
1. dry body with yellow coat
vs
2. dry body, no coat |
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1. excess heat
2. deficiency heat |
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1. the more dry, the more yellow coat
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| red tip with points, dry coat |
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| red sides and bilateral yellow, dry coating |
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| thick yellow dry coating, often with red points around the center |
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| thin yellow dry coating on the anterior |
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| brown, gray and black coatings |
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serious heat
(antineoplastics drugs) |
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| dry, BROWN, or black coating |
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| extreme heat in the St and intestines with desiccated feces |
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Deficiency Tongues:
1. Pale tongue body with thin coating
2. pale tongue body with white coat
3. pale tongue body with overly moist coating
4. pale tongue body with dry coating
5. blue body
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1. Xu
2. Cold
3. Failure to transform transport fluids
4. prolonged and severe condition of T/T
5. chronic retention of cold |
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