Tongue state
Crimson Tongue Dry with Scant Fluids
Schematic illustration, not a photograph
Schematic illustration, not a photograph.
Description
Tongue crimson, surface shriveled and devoid of fluids, sometimes withered and lusterless, resembling a parched field.
Significance
Indicates intense heat damaging yin with severe depletion of fluids; signals heat penetrating the blood level or near-exhaustion of kidney yin.
Related tongue states
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