To determine the physical condition through the tongue color

Slight tongue color: the tongue color is more normal shallow, more in blood deficiency, indicating the Yang qi weak, the qi blood is insufficient. Pale and fat is cold; Fat tender edge has tooth mark is qi deficiency, Yang deficiency.

Red tongue: the tongue is more normal than normal, it is bright red, and the main heat card is more empirical. The red tip of the tongue is inflammation of the heart; The tongue is red for the liver. Red and dry should be damage for the liver for hot and Yin-deficiency.

Crimson tongue: the tongue is deep red for the heat, much for the heat penetrating into human body, due to blood or Yin. The darker the color of the tongue, the heavier the heat.

Blood stasis: there are purple pestasis or spots on the tongue, and there is a accumulation of blood stasis in the tongue.

Cyan glossia: the whole tongue is purple, or hot, or cold. The tongue is purple deep and dry as the heat pole, and the warm and hot disease is the spread of the disease. The tongue is yellowish violet or violet showing the slippery is due to cold.

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