tongue diagnoses

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Hello, and thanks for the input to my question, I appreciate it very

much. I must admit I did not readily remember your articles Tymothy

but once I looked at a back issues I remembered some comfort gathered

from one of your articles in the July issue. Frequently as a student

it is hard to believe we will get it (TCM) someday, as if it will come

in the mail one day and all will make sense again. I am winding down

my third semester attending American Institute of Alternative Medicine

in Columbus, Ohio. It is a very small new school with NAACOM candidacy

where they strive hard to give us the best. Thanks again for the

input. Clarissa

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Clarissa:

 

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" rissaguest " <clarissadawn1

> Hello, and thanks for the input to my question, I appreciate it very

> much. I must admit I did not readily remember your articles Tymothy

> but once I looked at a back issues I remembered some comfort gathered

> from one of your articles in the July issue. Frequently as a student

> it is hard to believe we will get it (TCM) someday, as if it will come

> in the mail one day and all will make sense again. I am winding down

> my third semester attending American Institute of Alternative Medicine

> in Columbus, Ohio. It is a very small new school with NAACOM candidacy

> where they strive hard to give us the best. Thanks again for the

> input. Clarissa

>

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[Guest guest]

I need help with a tongue diagnosis. I have a patient 80+ years old. She has

osteoporosis and is wheelchair bound. She came to me for severe leg pain and

esophagus burning.

 

Her tongue looks like a raw piece of liver. No joke. It is brown! Some days

it is dim gray brown, lately it is darker brown. It also looks like someone

took a knife and cut slices about dime to quarter size off the top on both

sides of the center and chopped up the back of her tongue. There is also a

greasy thick accumulation of coating about 1/8 " wide along the center. There

is sometimes this thick coat around the peeled edges forming a circle around

it. The body is swollen thick.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Ok, no one can answer his question until they answer

my " orange tongue coating " question!!!

 

Just joking.

 

A brown tongue is most likely severe deficiency heat

with stagnation. The heavy cracking and peeling is

also supportive of this. The other possibility is

cold. Any chance you can snap a picture and upload it?

Could you let us know what the characteristics of her

leg pain are?

It's also possible that it is developing a stronger

brown colour as she is improving.

That's a start from me.

Hugo

 

 

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[Guest guest]

A brown tongue signifies an interior burning, usually from smoking

cigarette, tobacco, drug used, from diabetes or from heavy drinking.

With thick coat presents excess, with thin coat presents a recovering

from a condition of excess heat ; with wet fluid means with damp, with

dry coat means with phlegm.

Usually thick coating means the digestive problem, excess condition;

thin coating or no coating means deficiency. The degree of thickness

of coat is a degree of excess; the degree of color is a degree of

Stomach Qi " energy " .

 

80 yrs old + with osteoporosis, leg pain and esophagus burning.

Based on only tongue diagnosis will not be not a complete view.

However, tongue looks like a raw piece of liver " dark brown " ……. dark

brown means severe burning if the tongue is dry, if wet it means blood

not circulating ( good circulation gives us light pink ) and the body

fluids accumulated. Gray brown is more severe burning than dark brown,

darker brown is more heat than dark brown. Deep cuts mean so deficient

of fluid, so dry which cracks the tongue " usually from drug used,

long term dryness " . Thick greasy coat ( excess phlegm ) , the peeled

edges means deficient of Gallbladder or Liver which will not hold the

tongue coat. The tongue body is swollen ( excess ) from stagnation ,

heat , damp , or phlegm . With dryness ( heat , body fluid deficiency

), red ( heat ), wet ( damp, body fluid accumulation ), thick coat (

phlegm accumulation ), no coat ( deficiency ), purple ( blood

stagnation or with pain )

Esophagus burning ( heat in esophagus, from acid reflux ), severe leg

pain ( from calcium, phosphorous, zinc, magnesium deficiency ). How is

the pain ? stabbing pain ( blood not circulating ), radiating pain (

nerve pain, from sciatic nerve, from heat ), local pain ( arthritis ,

muscular or tendonitis … ).

 

80 yrs old ( a deficiency from wear and tear ), osteoporosis (

mineral deficiency ), esophagus burning ( heat from acid reflux,

dryness from drug used, or from infection , inflammation )…….

Can we sedate the interior heat from this patient ? We should ask her

for more data.

She may be insomnia, trembling, sometimes with chest burning and gas,

anorexia, abdominal discomfort after eating, dry stool, not drinking

much because of not thirsty, tinnitus, difficult hearing, easily get

dizziness or light headache ……..

 

Well, for elderly people we would try to eliminate heat to ease all

the heat symptoms and burning. FIRST , we would ask this lady about

the daily diet and medication, then advice her to eliminate all

preprocessed cooked foods, fried , hot and spicy foods … and sometimes

cut off some of vitamin use.

 

I am sorry , I `ve gone beyond the inquiry…………….