Oriental tongue diagnosis is an essential tool used by acupuncturists and traditional Oriental Medicine Practitioners. In Oriental Medicine is used to understanding what's happening inside the body. In Chinese medicine, each type of tongue quality relates to an Oriental Medicine diagnosis, as well as particular physical and mental/emotional symptoms.

Your tongue is like a map and show what happened into your body and how your body works

• Every bit means something:
• Shape, size, moisture, colour, lines, marks.
• Changes as your health changes.

It is an important way to diagnose a patient’s health and sometimes can be crucial in deciding what to do first. Tongue diagnosis is an important part of the Oriental medical assessment. During an examination, the overall tongue coating, shape, and color is taken into account. The tongue reflects the health of the internal organs and blood circulation. Changes in the tongue color usually reflect chronic illness. As your health changes, the condition of your tongue will change as well. It is therefore very useful and important during inspection for confirming TCM diagnosis. It can present strong visual indicators of a person's overall harmony or disharmony. In this page, we would like to share with your knowledge about tongue diagnosis. It will be a very interesting topic for you to understand how the tongue is a mirror of the body. 

Channels/Meridians Reaching the Tongue

- The Luo connecting channel connects to the root of the tongue.

Spleen Channel (Foot Taiyin)
- An internal branch of the primary channel spreads over the lover surface of the tongue.
- The tongue is penetrated by the Spleen Divergent channel

Kidney Channel (Foot Shaoyin)
- An internal branch of the primary channel terminates at the base of the tongue.

Bladder Channel (Foot Taiyang)
- A branch of the muscle/sinew channel binds to the root of the tongue.

San Jiao Channel (Hand Shaoyang)
- A branch of the San Jiao muscle channel links with the root of the tongue.   

Pulse diagnosis is one of the four major assessments in TCM (traditional Oriental medicine) consultation. Through pulse palpation at three locations, i.e. cun, guan and chi, on both wrists, general health condition of a person and a particular organ can be fully recognized. The patient stretches out her wrists or lays them on a small cushion on the table. The doctor will use three fingers to take the patient's pulse at three positions on each wrist, using first gentle then stronger pressure to feel in depth. 

Pulse diagnosis

Pulse diagnosis is based on another microsystem with internal organs represented on the wrists. 

Once the Chinese doctor has questioned the patient and looked at the tongue, it is time for pulse diagnosis. The patient stretches out his wrists or lays them on a small oblong rice cushion on the table. The physician will use three fingers to take the patient's pulse at three positions on each wrist simultaneously, and will judge the pulse according to 28 variables (see Fig.. He will first use only light pressure against the patient's wrist, then increase it. The light pressure allows the doctor to check one specific organ, the increased pressure another one. Every organ's status can be monitored by the quality of the pulse. The physician can, among other things, feel if the organ lacks energy, or the energy has stagnated, if there is a lack of ‘blood', or if a pathogenic factor has invaded the organ.

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