Tongue Gallery

Spleen Blood Deficiency

Fantastic Before and After Shots. 1. I wrote an extensive presentation of this case in: Contemporary Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture,  Churchill Livingston. Philidelphia, 2002. This young women came in with "chronic fatigue". She had to drop out of school and could barely function. Her CM diagnosis was extreme blood deficiency. After one …

Stomach yin/yang xu and Heart Fire

Deep Heart/Spleen Crack, Massive deficiency of just about everything. Deep Heart Crack Color: Yellow/blue Sound: Singing Odor: Fragrant Emotion: Worry Pulse: Very tight on whole right side, spreading on whole left side. Symptoms: Anxiety, Insomnia, Exhaustion, Receding/Bleeding gums, Nose Bleeds, constipation. Background: This picture is from a young woman I treated many years ago. I don't have an after picture here unfortunately. However, …

Heart Crack with Phlegm/Fire

A perfect example of phlegm in a heart crack with damp heat in Small Intestine. Patient: 76yo Woman. Constitution:Fire, Earth within (SI) Color: Red/Yellow Sound: Laughing/Sing Odor: Scorched/Fragrant Emotion: Joy/Worry   Officials: SI/St Symptoms: Severe Constipation, Tinnitus (Music plays in ears),  Confusion, Upper back pain (SI channel). Pulse: Uniformly tense (Stagnant qi) and pounding (Stagnant heat).   Herbs: Da Chai Hu Tang Archtypical Point combinaton: 1. SI-8 (Earth within …

Fire Constitution with Kidney Yangxu and Asthma

Case presentation: Looking for discussion. Tongue: red tongue with red dots and redder tip, thick yellow coat, especially in the rear 1/3.  Some teeth marks and those interesting vertical lines in the lung and stomach region. History: 40 yr old Asian woman, very petite, with asthma 15 yrs that is worse in …

Kidney Jing Xu

A tongue showing kidney jing xu.   This tongue is from a man in his middle 50's. 1. Note the large dip in the rear 1/3 of the tongue. The bottom literally has fallen out. This indicates kidney qi and yang xu. 2. Notice the yellow coat over the wole tongue and how much ticker the accumulation …

Kidney Jingxu #2

Another shot showing how distending the tongue can change it's appearance and thus the diagnosis.   This is the same tongue as in the previous picture. Please notice how less severe the depression is in the rear third of the tongue. This is because the tongue was extended to forcefuly. Always have the patient …

Hypertension, Earth Constitution, SP qi and yinxu

Take a Look   I often see this crease on the ear with advanced HBP. Notice how swollen and peeled the tongue is and how yellow the flesh is. Small Intestine is also deeply implicated. Notice the purple vessels originating in the ear @ shenmen. Constitution is Stomach/Small Intestine (fire within earth).

Lung spots

Take a look   I was taught by Leon, and have found, such a finding to be very concerning and to indicate severe yangxu of an organ. This is a state of high vulnerability and possible cellular change. In this case the patient is a metal constitutional type (LI). His father smoked constantly …

Liver Concern

Take a look!   I saw a patient today for the first time in 15 years. She came in saying "I'm finally ready to take my health seriously." Her constitution is Earth/Metal. I have three concerning findings: 1. The white spot on the left side of her tongue suggesting sever liver blood and yang xu. 2. Thick purple veins under …

7yo on Sugar-Birthday Cake and Holloween

Sandy Camper sent in these two before and after shots of her "otherwise healthy" 7 Yo son after he ate large amounts of sugar. Note the peeled patch on the right side showing heat in the liver. Photo-6 depicts the tongue after the sugar and photo-5 is several days later..

Ropey Pulses

None more Ropey. Blood stagnation causing neuropathy from binding liver qi. Perscribing Xue fu zhu yu tang. History of anxiety and depression.

Gua Sha

Here is a picture of a patient after Gua Sha. She was feeling ill for a year after having a kidney infection and being diagnosed with a rare form of chronic strep. Her pulses were qi and blood deficient and I prescribed Ren Shen Yang Ying tang. Notice how the lungs are outlined.

Gua Sha II

Here is a picture of the right shoulder of a patient who had been complaining of shoulder pain. He was incapacitated to the point of not working and got significantly better after two acupuncture treatments. I didn't see him for another month as he traveled and when he returned a month later he still had …