Tongue state
Swollen Tongue with Greasy White Coating
Schematic illustration, not a photograph
Schematic illustration, not a photograph.
Description
Tongue body enlarged filling the mouth, color pale-red or somewhat pale, covered with a thick, greasy, slippery white coating that cannot be scraped off.
Significance
Indicates internal accumulation of phlegm-damp; the spleen fails to transform and transport, damp gathers into phlegm which then floods upward to the tongue.
Related tongue states
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Open tongue check