Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) color diagnosis is broad and profound, and many of its essentials are difficult for even experts and scholars who have practiced medicine for many years to grasp freely. However, there is a rule in color diagnosis that is relatively easy to grasp and closely related to ordinary people, that is, the color of the tongue.
Zhu Cuiling, chief physician of the cardiovascular department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said,
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the heart is the tongue, that is, the health of the heart will be reflected in the tongue first.
1
Ecchymosis on the tongue
Suggests blood stasis
For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the tongue or lips appear dark purple or have bruising, most of which are caused by blood circulation disorders, which are caused by blood vessel congestion and a decrease in the oxygen content in the blood, which is a blood vein blockage in traditional Chinese medicine.
If there is ecchymosis on the tongue, accompanied by symptoms such as palpitation, shortness of breath, and even insomnia and dreaming, and tingling in the precordial area, it indicates that there may be cardiovascular disease;
If it is accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness and headache, it may indicate cerebrovascular disease.
In addition, people with blood congestion in the body will also have a variety of symptoms, such as dysmenorrhea, menstrual blood clots, inexplicable bruises and purple patches on the body, particularly poor tolerance to pain, lack of luster on the skin, very dull.
2
Red tongue
Suggests a deficiency of heart yin
A healthy tongue should appear pale pink. Clinically, some people with cardiovascular disease may have red tongue, and patients are often accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms such as upset, palpitation, premature beats, and tachycardia.
This is a deficiency of heart yin in traditional Chinese medicine. When the heart yin is insufficient, it is easy to cause deficiency and induce cardiovascular disease.
3
The tongue coating turns white
Indicates a lack of qi and blood
The whitening of the tongue coating can be divided into two categories:
It is a pale tongue, and if such people are also accompanied by symptoms such as arrhythmia, fatigue, and heart failure, it indicates that they may have anemia heart disease.
The second is that the tongue coating is white and greasy, which is mostly related to the dampness resistance of the middle coke, and the patients are mostly accompanied by symptoms such as chest tightness and discomfort in the precordial area, and the patient may have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
There is an "emperor" hole on his feet
It's open here, and so are the blood vessels in the heart
Zhang Minzhou, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said,
People with a bad heart usually rub the Gongsun acupoint to help relieve heart discomfort.
Gongsun Cave
Gongsun, the name of the meridian acupoint, out of the "Lingshu Ben Lose", belongs to the foot Taiyin and spleen meridians, the foot Taiyin acupoint, one of the eight vein intersection points, through the chong pulse.
The Gongsun acupoint can command the four directions just like the emperor, so the whole body can be mobilized by kneading the Gongsun acupoint, so pressing this place can contact the fatigue of the whole body, and it has a regulating effect on the five organs.
If the heart is not good, it can have the function of strengthening the spleen and generating blood, regulate the prosperity and decline of qi and blood, strengthen the vitality of qi and blood, and make the heart with insufficient qi and blood sufficient, and the heart can be nourished and the mind is peaceful.