We all know that tongue diagnosis is very representative in traditional Chinese medicine. Different conditions represent different diseases in different parts of the body.
Well, a friend of my parents contacted me yesterday and said that I was inspired by reading my article and asked me to help my children read it. After the photo was sent, I found that the child had physical problems.
Through tongue diagnosis, we can directly understand the general health status of children, and we will know the development of diseases. Many times we panic because we don't know, and because of panic, we will make a lot of wrong nursing and medication.
"The tongue is waiting outside the heart." The word "wait" means a sign and a sign. The heart is the official of the human body and the master of all kinds of life activities. In this case, the tongue, as its "external climate", can naturally reflect all life activities of the human body.
Neijing holds that different parts of the tongue can reflect the pathological changes of different viscera, which has certain reference significance in clinic. The tip of the tongue is affected by cardiopulmonary diseases; The middle part of the tongue is concentrated in the spleen and stomach; The tongue root is waiting for the lower jiao kidney; Treat the liver and gallbladder on both sides of the tongue.
Dialectics of Treating Typhoid with Finger-Palm Diagnosis also says that the tip of the tongue belongs to epiglottis, the middle of the tongue belongs to epiglottis, and the root of the tongue belongs to epiglottis.
Tongue coating is formed by evaporation of stomach qi from valley qi, which is inherited from the tongue surface, reflecting the transport and transformation function of spleen and stomach. Tongue body is nourished by qi and blood, and qi and blood are transformed from spleen and stomach into subtle Shui Gu. Therefore, under pathological conditions, tongue images can provide useful information for the diagnosis of diseases of the spleen and stomach (digestive system).
The tongue is pale and white, governing both qi and blood deficiency and yang deficiency. If it is light and bright, the tongue is light and thin, which belongs to deficiency of both qi and blood. If it is pale and moist, the tongue is fat and tender, which belongs to yang deficiency and water stagnation. Deficiency of qi and blood, critical illness, lack of qi and blood in the tongue, so it is dry and white.
A red tongue is just the opposite of a white tongue. It is darker than light red or even bright red. It's called red tongue.
Chinese medicine says that "the five internal organs are matched with the five internal organs", and the tongue corresponds to the heart. Inflammation of the heart fire or accumulation of heat in the heart meridian can lead to redness of the tip of the tongue and even ulcers and sores. Angry people are generally accompanied by restless sleep, thirst, dry stool, short yellow urine and yellow fur.
If we combine the tongue coating on the surface of the tongue, we can distinguish whether this heat syndrome is deficiency heat or excess heat. Red tongue and thick yellow fur are mostly excess heat syndrome; Red tongue with little coating and no coating, or cracks on the coating of tongue, often belong to deficiency-heat syndrome.
The thickness of tongue coating is based on "bottoming out" and "not bottoming out", that is, "thin coating" means that the tongue can be seen vaguely through the tongue coating, and "thick coating" means that the tongue cannot be seen. The moss produced by stomach-qi fumigation must be thin and uniform, or the middle root is slightly thick, which is average; Most of the moss scales produced by the overflow of evil qi are thick, so the thickness of the moss can measure the rise and fall of good and evil and the depth of the lesion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that thick coating is caused by dampness and turbid pathogens fumigating stomach qi, and the main pathogens are gastric lavage or phlegm-dampness food accumulation. Thin coating is normal, or superficial syndrome or deficiency syndrome.
However, when the disease weakens the transport function of the spleen and stomach, the diet can not be digested normally, and all kinds of pollutants accumulate abnormally in the body, and these pollutants fumigate upward on the tongue surface, which will lead to the thickening of the tongue coating.
The tongue is divided into three parts: the tip of the tongue, the middle of the tongue and the root of the tongue, which correspond to the triple focus of the human body, that is, the tip of the tongue corresponds to the upper focus, the middle focus corresponds to the tongue, and the root of the tongue corresponds to the lower focus. Abnormal tongue coating appears in different parts, reflecting different parts of the disease.
For example, greasy tongue coating means that water is in the middle jiao (such as spleen and stomach), and if greasy tongue coating appears at the root of tongue, it means that water is in the lower jiao (such as bladder and kidney), and so on.
Ok, let's look at the typical tongue of children (underlined):