"Open your mouth and stick your tongue out······" The powerful old Chinese medicine practitioner can roughly infer the patient's illness and its cause just by using the tongue image, which is comparable to various modern advanced scanners and analyzers.
Learning tongue diagnosis has many benefits for personal health management and TCM health preservation, and it can also apply the knowledge of tongue diagnosis to daily life to help people around you to conduct health self-examination and conditioning, which can be regarded as a great good deed.
I am also very willing to dedicate my tongue diagnosis experience to every family member, hoping to contribute to everyone's health.
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The ancients said: "Look, hear, ask, and ask, the Jews have limbs." A limb cannot be a human being, and a diagnosis cannot be a doctor, "This shows that ancient doctors attached great importance to the four diagnoses.
The first of the four diagnoses is the first of the four diagnoses, and the things to look at include the complexion, spirit, and tongue.
"The god who knows at a glance" is enough to reflect the importance that the ancients attached to medical treatment.
The development of tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine has a long history, which can be traced back to the Yin Shang period 3,000 years ago.
The real embryonic period of TCM tongue diagnosis was during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Warring States Period, when the Yellow Emperor's Neijing not only synthesized the theory of traditional Chinese medicine from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Western Han Dynasty, but also summarized the experience and discussion of tongue diagnosis in the Zhou and Qin periods.
The book is rich in content on tongue diagnosis, and clearly expounds the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the tongue, points out the significance of tongue diagnosis, and lays a foundation for the research and development of tongue diagnosis in the future.
In addition, the pre-Qin Dynasty also appeared as the first physician to apply tongue diagnosis clinically, Bian Que, whose tongue diagnosis records were collected by Wang Shuhe and compiled in the "Pulse Meridian".
During the Han and Tang dynasties, the society was prosperous, and the social atmosphere affected the entire country at that time, as well as the development of traditional Chinese medicine. During this period, the theory and practice of TCM were highly integrated, and the level of TCM tongue diagnosis was further improved.
Among them, the most famous is Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", which talks about tongue diagnosis in many aspects, not only inheriting the content of "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", but also applying tongue diagnosis to syndrome differentiation and treatment, which is closely integrated with clinical experience.
Wang Shuhe of the Jin Dynasty wrote the "Pulse Meridian" to further collect and record a large number of Zhang Zhongjing's tongue diagnosis, and observed the tongue of fever disease, supplementing the vacancies in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases".
For the first time, Sun Simiao, a physician in the Tang Dynasty, clearly proposed that the tongue corresponds to the viscera, and that the viscera can be known by examining the tongue and the viscera, and that the viscera can be treated according to this legislative prescription, which provides a theoretical basis for later generations to examine the tongue to identify the viscera, examine the cause, and determine the treatment rules.
During the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, many summary books appeared, and the tongue diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine entered the summary period. For example, Cheng Wuji's "Ming Theory of Typhoid Fever" contains a treatise on tongue diagnosis, "Tongue Fetus", which further summarizes and extracts the theory of tongue diagnosis in "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", forming the theoretical prototype of tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine.
It appeared in the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties, and is the first surviving tongue diagnosis monograph in mainland China - "Ao's Typhoid Fever Golden Mirror Record". In addition to books, countless doctors have further expanded the application of tongue diagnosis in practice:
Qian Yi pointed out three situations of pediatric tongue tricking, which filled the vacancy of pediatric tongue diagnosis, and Chen Ziming used the color of the tongue to distinguish the life and death of women and children, which contributed to the judgment of obstetrics and gynecology......
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, clinical medicine was further developed on the basis of its predecessors and entered its heyday, many monographs on tongue diagnosis were published, and the school of warm disease also conducted further research on tongue diagnosis.
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Tongue diagnosis mainly examines the shape, color, and dryness of the tongue texture and tongue coating, so as to judge the nature of the disease, the shallowness and depth of the disease, the prosperity and decline of qi and blood, the profit and loss of the fluid, and the deficiency and reality of the viscera.
The tongue is divided into several different areas, the tip of the tongue, the middle of the tongue, the base of the tongue and the side of the tongue, representing different organs and organs.
Among them, the tip of the tongue represents the heart and lungs, the middle of the tongue represents the spleen and stomach, the base of the tongue represents the kidney, and the side of the tongue represents the liver and gallbladder. When there is a change in a certain area, it means that there is a problem with the corresponding viscera.
In addition to the different areas of the tongue, the shape, color, coating, and dryness of the tongue also reflect the changes in our body.
This is evident in the tongue coating: generally in the course of the disease, as the disease changes from mild to severe, the tongue coating will also change from thin to thick, indicating that the disease is from the surface to the inside, and if the tongue coating changes from thick to thin, it means that the condition is improving.
Therefore, we can look at the tongue and know the whole body.
After learning the tongue diagnosis, we can understand the changes in our body in time, and we must remember the following common tongue signs:
Normal tongue
Pale red tongue, thin white moss, commonly known as peach blossom tongue. For people with a peaceful physique, the purest tongue is a pale red like a peach blossom with a thin layer of white moss on it, and this kind of tongue that makes people envious and jealous is called "peach blossom tongue".
Yang deficiency tongue image
Physical manifestations: sensitivity to cold, preference for hot drinks, lack of energy, excessive sleep, pale lips, easy hair fall, easy sweating, loose stools, and long urine.
Causes: Eating too much cold medicine, drinking cold drinks, weak constitution, excessive exposure to cold environments.
Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning: 20 grams of angelica, 30 grams of ginger, 500 grams of mutton, 2 bags of cinnamon powder in soup.
Daily health: cinnamon powder, one bag each time, once a day, take with warm water.
淤血tongue象
Physical manifestations: forgetfulness, dry throat, irritable temperament, dry skin, body aches, dull complexion, dark lips, dark eye circles, dysmenorrhea.
Causes: Poor blood flow, trauma, anger (liver stagnation and qi stagnation can easily cause blood stasis), qi deficiency, and cold.
Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning: Panax notoginseng powder, American ginseng powder, and salvia powder each half a bag, washed with warm water, have the effect of promoting qi, invigorating blood and relieving pain.
Blood-deficient tongue elephant
Physical manifestations: poor memory, poor thinking, poor sleep, insomnia, fatigue, fear of wind and cold, warm hands and feet in hot weather, cold hands and feet in cold weather.
Causes: blood loss, poor spleen and stomach function can not absorb nutrients, excessive thinking consumes the blood of the heart and spleen.
Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning: 3 bags of American ginseng powder, 3 bags of Poria cocos powder, 300 grams of longan meat, stir evenly and steam for 4 hours, and take one spoonful with boiling water every day.
Yin deficiency tongue image
Physical manifestations: dry eyes, dry mouth and throat, hot hands and feet, dry stool, dizziness and tinnitus, poor sleep, fast pulse, preference for cold drinks, irritability, soreness in the waist and knees.
Causes: Insufficient fluid, staying up late, eating spicy and too hot food, serious illness.
Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning: 9 grams of raw land, sand ginseng, wheat winter, wolfberry, 1 bag of stacked sheath Dendrobium powder, 1 bag of American ginseng powder, 3 grams of angelica, 1 section of pig keel, take it in soup for a week.
Daily health: 1 bag of American ginseng powder, 1 bag of stacked dendrobium powder, once a day, take with warm water.
Water wet tongue elephant
Physical manifestations: facial (eyelids) puffiness, oiliness, acne, diarrhea, heavy drowsiness, dry stools, irritability and irritability.
Causes: Qi deficiency, lack of exercise, drinking cold drinks, causing water to remain in the body.
Traditional Chinese medicine conditioning: 10 grams of red beans and barley, 1 bag of Poria cocos powder, 1 bag of salvia powder, boil water for 30 minutes, replace tea, dispel heat and dampness, suitable for summer. In winter, it is suitable to soak your feet in green peppercorns and boiled water.
Daily health: 1 bag of Poria cocos powder, 1 bag of pine pollen, 1 bag of salvia powder, once a day with warm water.
Tongue diagnosis is not only the wisdom of TCM, but also a way for us to take care of ourselves.
Self-taught tongue diagnosis makes us the first responsible person for our own health. Mastering tongue diagnosis is like having a key to decipher the body's code, allowing us to live healthier and more confident.
Source: Health Talk