What Does the Tongue Symptom of Yin Deficiency?

Yin deficiency tongue

A person with Yin deficiency has an obvious characteristic: red tongue. 

Traditional Chinese medicine calls this kind of tongue as red tongue with thin coating. It can basically judge people with this kind of tongue to be yin deficiency body. 

Yin deficiency tongue
Yin deficiency tongue

People with yin deficiency have red tongues and thin coating. 

There are too many people with heavy dampness. 

What will happen if a person has yin deficiency and dampness in the body? 

The tongue is red, but there is a coating on it, and the tongue coating will cover the red below. However, people should know that nowadays many people have a combination of several constitutions.

Some people have a red tongue, but the fur is not thin. This is a manifestation of Yin deficiency covered by water and dampness.

Yin deficiency tongue

For people with yin deficiency, the tongue coating is sometimes not as thin as the picture because it may be transforming. 

2) The tongue coating is very thin or has no tongue coating (atrophy), which is the symptom of yin deficiency. 

Why does the tongue coating shrink? Because when you are yin deficiency, there will be heat in the body, and there are various microorganisms in the tongue coating. When the body fluid in your body is consumed, the microbial environment is also destroyed, and the tongue coating will shrink. 

At this time, the tongue coating will shrink. It will be thin, not even moss. 

3) There are deep cracks on the tongue of the old man, which is a symptom of Yin deficiency.

What kind of people has more Yin deficiency? TCM experts’ experience is that there are more elderly people. Why? Because people consume more body fluids with the increase of age, when they are old, there is not much, and as a result, a constitution of yin deficiency is formed.

From the appearance of the tongue, the tongue of the elderly is very red, with many cracks on it, which are very deep, and when eating spicy food, the tongue will feel uncomfortable, which are all symptoms of Yin deficiency. 

4) The tongue coating is unevenly distributed and the tongue is reddish. Most of them are caused by Yin deficiency

Many people are geographic tongues-a few pieces of coating are inexplicably lost on the tongue, exposing the red tongue. This kind of tongue appearance most are caused by Yin deficiency. 

Yin deficiency tongue

A few pieces of moss have fallen off the tongue, revealing a red tongue, which is the map tongue.

5) The tongue has changed from red to white, indicating that the body has changed from Yin deficiency to blood deficiency. 

Most people change from Yin-deficiency to blood-deficiency transformed in life. Yin deficiency and blood deficiency are mutually involved and develop each other.

In fact, there are relatively few people with true Yin-deficiency bodies. Why? Many people used to be Yin-deficiency constitutions, but later they all turned into blood-deficiency.

What does such a person show on his tongue? 

The tongue is red at first but gradually becomes pale white because the blood in it is slowly decreasing (tongue red is conditional on blood filling, if there is insufficient blood in the body, how can the tongue be red).

If you have dry eyes, dry hands, hot palms, etc., and the tongue is also like this, then you should take good care of nourishing blood, and slowly you will find that the tongue is red and the tongue coating is coming out. 

Of course, there are also many people with blood-deficiency bodies. Originally, their tongues were pale.

For some reason, their tongues gradually turned a little red, which indicated that his body had turned from blood deficiency into a yin deficiency.

Silver Tongue

Silver Tongue