Tongue state
Pale Purple Tongue
Schematic illustration, not a photograph
Schematic illustration, not a photograph.
Description
Tongue pale with a purplish cast, body slightly swollen, covered by a thin, moist white coating.
Significance
Indicates yang vacuity with cold congealing and blood stasis; insufficient yang gives rise to internal cold, and blood, losing its warming movement, congeals.
Related tongue states
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