Mirror tongue

Introduction Chinese medical terminology. One of the contents of the tongue diagnosis. The tongue is no moss and smooth as a mirror. More common in the serious damage of the Yin fluid. If the tongue is light and red, it will hurt the yin. The tongue is light and pale, and it is both qi and yin. If the tongue is light and the shape is withered, it is a critical illness that is devastating. The silky nipple of the tongue is atrophied, and the back of the tongue is red, which may be accompanied by symptoms such as dry mouth and burning sensation. The back of the tongue is smooth and dark red, and the pain is noticeable when eating irritating food. Some patients may have abnormal taste or loss of taste. Because the appearance of the mirror tongue is closely related to systemic diseases, it is often accompanied by other systemic symptoms, such as pale skin mucous membranes, dizziness, tinnitus, memory loss, and abnormalities in the extremities.

Cause

Mirror tongue is more common in the serious damage of the Yin fluid. More reflects the body yin deficiency, yin deficiency mostly after the fever or miscellaneous disease, long-term injury to Yin liquid, or because of the five-minded, the sexual intercourse, the service of warm and dry products, etc., so that the Yin liquid dark consumption of Yin liquid When the loss is small, the body loses the gluten and nourishes the earth. At the same time, because the yin does not make the yang, the yang heat is relatively prosperous, and the heat inside is born, so the performance is mostly a heat, dry and not dry, and the fire is not disturbing. The syndrome.

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TCM tongue diagnosis, refers to the tongue surface without moss, smooth as a mirror. The tongue is pale, the tongue is completely stripped, the particles are completely absent, smooth as a mirror, and the tongue resembles a newly peeled chicken.

The silky nipple of the tongue is atrophied, and the back of the tongue is red, which may be accompanied by symptoms such as dry mouth and burning sensation. The back of the tongue is smooth and dark red, and the pain is noticeable when eating irritating food. Some patients may have abnormal taste or loss of taste. Because the appearance of the mirror tongue is closely related to systemic diseases, it is often accompanied by other systemic symptoms, such as pale skin mucous membranes, dizziness, tinnitus, memory loss, and abnormalities in the extremities.

Based on clinical performance, combined with laboratory tests (including blood tests, candida tests, etc.), a diagnosis can be made.

Differential diagnosis

If the tongue is light and red, it will hurt the yin. The tongue is light and pale, and it is both qi and yin. If the tongue is light and the shape is withered, it is a critical illness that is devastating.

In addition, when discriminating between the white tongue and the pure white tongue and the pale white transparent tongue. "Treatment of the tongue." The general theory of white moss tongue: "The tongue sees the white moss as the color of ripeness, thick thick wrapped in the tongue," it can be seen that there is also the image of white moss thick, for the Yang Wei can not steam the water valley, causing both blood and blood loss. There is a pale white transparent tongue, which is clear to the whole tongue. It is covered with a very thin transparent moss, which seems to be floating fat, pale and wet. "Different tongue differentiation syndrome": "Pale white transparent tongue, no matter how old or young, seeing this is the cold Yibu Zhongyiqitang plus ginger, cassia, and attached .... That is to say that the tongue is weak due to the yang, the water vapor is on the surface, and there is a transparent thin moss that looks like no moss, when the spleen and kidney are warmed. When identified.

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