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Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine Giovanni Maciocia
Publisher: Eastland Press

Chinese Medicine Tongue Diagnosis: Most of our clients who come to the office bristle at the thought of having their tongue diagnosed. However, in Chinese medicine, a practitioner can garner quite a bit of information about you and your condition, simply by taking a look at your tongue. Understanding Tongue Diagnosis By: Lynn Jaffee, LAc, Dipl. Pulse and tongue of the dynamic observation, to a certain extent, compensate for the inadequacy of means of detection of modern medicine. Tongue diagnosis is one of the main diagnostic tools in Traditional Chinese Medicine. A few months ago, I was having tea with a Chinese medicine professor, discussing my plans about making the ancient tongue diagnosis texts available in English. Inter-observer reliability was assessed using . When we first ask to see the tongue, most are embarrassed. She will look at your tongue and feel your pulse in order to develop a Chinese medical diagnosis. To the practitioner of Chinese medicine the tongue is a tool which they can use to aid in making a diagnosis when using a traditional form of Chinese medicine such as acupuncture or herbal remedies. The answer is simple–looking at the tongue is one of the essential elements of diagnosis in Chinese medicine. It is more affected by ephemeral influences than the tongue diagnosis or other forms of diagnosis. Naturopaths who use TCM in the treatment of fertility will also look at your tongue and take your TCM pulses to both diagnose your TCM pattern and to monitor treatment. Each patient was seen by two TKM-experts for an examination of the pulse signs – pulse diagnosis is regularly used by practitioners of TKM and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and is entirely different from what conventional doctors do when they feel the pulse of a patient. His first reaction was quite negative and disapproving.