Chinese Medicine Gem

Disease diagnosis can be quick and easy by inspecting your own philtrum. Don’t believe it? Well, just finish this article and apply these techniques on yourself. I believe you will find out the answer on your own. As a matter of fact, disease diagnosis by inspecting philtrum is not so mysterious in Traditional Chinese medicine. [...]

Upset stomach is closely associated with tongue symptoms, according to Chinese medicine theory. Chinese medicine thinks that Tongue connects lung, heart, liver, spleen, kidney and other organs with meridian, in which tongue is viewed as the flame of the heart and tongue coating as the root of stomach Qi. So if upset stomach happens, it [...]

Yellow tongue is a common pathological tongue, which can be seen in some healthy people as well.
Yellow tongue diagnosis
Yellow tongue in healthy people is mostly with thin yellow tongue coating or thin yellow greasy tongue coating. The chance of suffering from thick yellow greasy tongue coating increases with increasing age.
The colors of yellow tongue can [...]

To get to know this kind tongue manifestation, first we have to know something about fissured tongue (or cracked tongue).
Fissured tongue is also known as ‘scrotal tongue’ or ‘lingua plicata’, which is characterized by one or more fissures or grooves on the tongue surface.
Category of fissured tongue
Fissured tongue can be either congenital or acquired.
Congenital fissured [...]

Hairy tongue is one of important tongue manifestations we should pay attention to.
So what reveals by white hairy tongue from the perspective of Traditional Chinese medicine?
White hairy tongue diagnosis
The tongue manifestation shows thick, white and greasy coating, on which the particles, tight or loose, can be filled with all the tongue, or thin coating at [...]

Scalloped tongue is formed by the teeth oppression due to enlarged tongue, which is often associated with scalloped tongue.
Most of scalloped tongues belong to spleen deficiency and host deficient syndromes. If the tongue body is pale pink and moist, it indicates spleen deficiency and excess of cold-dampness.
What causes scalloped tongue?
As we know that enlarged tongue [...]

Enlarged tongue is often mistaken for swollen tongue. As a matter of fact, they are two different concepts.
Tongue diagnosis
Enlarged tongue (also known as fat tongue):
Tongue body is deficient fat, or with scalloped edges, pale and tender, which is call enlarged tongue or fat tongue.
The causes of enlarged tongue
In some ancient documents of Traditional Chinese medicine, [...]

Cracked tongue usually indicates the syndrome of extreme heat due to deficiency of Yin.
Tongue diagnosis
The tongue surface is paved with more or less cracks, which is in irregular depth and different shapes.
Main diseases indicated by cracked tongue
Cracked tongue hosts main diseases as follows:

Syndrome of extreme heat injuring Yin is usually with deep red [...]

Thin white coated tongue with moderately moist is one of most typical tongue diagnosis images we can see clinically. This article explains the cause and treatment of this typical tongue image.
Tongue diagnosis
The tongue surface is paved with thin white coating, particles in even size, and moderately moist.
The formation of thin white coated tongue
Thin white [...]

Thin white tongue coating is a symptom very commonly seen during tongue diagnosis. So what changes are thin white tongue coating indicating in our body inside?
The tongue diagnosis
The tongue surface is paved with thin white coating, with less fluid, and the coating is relatively dry.
Main Disease indicated and Related Research
Thin white tongue coating is caused [...]