Term
1. Thick coating
2. Thin coat / Rootless coat / absence of coat
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Definition
1. Excess condition
2. Xu condition |
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Term
1. Flabby body
2. swollen body
3. Thin body |
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Definition
1. Xu
2. Excess (due to retention of damp or phlegm)
(careful, later Gio says it can be from
accumulation of fluids due to yang xu)
3. Xu condition: due to blood or yin xu |
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Term
| Swollen, stiff body shape and thick coating |
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Definition
| confirm an excess condition |
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Term
The tongue is not usually pale unless there is...
1.
2. |
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Definition
1. Cold
2. excess with deficiency pattern |
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Term
1. White thick coating with pale body
(vanilla cake with frosting :)
2. Blue or bluish purple tongue |
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Definition
1. Interior Excess Cold
*Damp in the Spleen
*Retention of cold in Intestines
*Retention of cold in the womb
* Retention of cold in the Chest
2. Severe, persistent retention fo cold
and subsequent stagnation |
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Term
| 1. Red or Dark red body with a yellow, thick coat |
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Definition
1. Interior excess Heat
* heart Fire
* blazing liver Fire
* Lung Heat
* Stomach Fire |
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Term
1. Purple in color with dark red or purple spots (macules)
2. Swelling and darkening of the two veins on either side of the frenulum
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Definition
1. General Blood Stasis
2. General Blood Stasis |
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Term
1. macules on the side area between the tip and center
2. Macules along the sides
3. Macules on the central surface of the tongue
4. macules on the root |
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Definition
1. Stasis in the Chest
(xue fu zhu yu tang)
2. Stasis in the Liver
3. Stasis in the Stomach
4. Stasis in the intestines or UB
(tao he cheng qi tang) |
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Term
| Thick, slippery and greasy coat |
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Definition
| general phlegm excess in the interior |
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