The Traditional Chinese Medicine Oriental Diagnosis Study Guide

Doctors Yi Qiao and Al Stone have recently completed their second book, this one on Oriental diagnosis. Entitled "The Traditional Chinese Medicine Oriental Diagnosis Study Guide", this book will be available from Eastland Press in 2008.

As is the case with their first book, "The Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula Study Guide" it's full of plainly stated and suitably organized charts and graphs that describe in stunning detail and clarity the pathomechanisms for every observable sign and symptom in traditional Chinese medicine.

In fact, at one point, we just kept making more charts than the book really needed. What is found on these pages are those charts that were not included in the book. We offer them here without any particular term considerations. In other words, some of the terms may be unfamiliar. In the published version, all terms will appear in either a glossary at the end of the book, or a glossary at the end of some other Eastland Press TCM book.

Tongue body color with various coatings

1. The pale tongue body, and the pink tongue body
2. The red tongue body
3. The crimson (red-purple) tongue body
4. The purple (and green-purple) tongue body

Tongue coatings

1. Tongue coating colors
2. Tongue coating - thickness, moisture, viscosity
3. Tongue coating - distribution and root

Tongue body flexibility

1. Tongue body movement - limp, stiff, trembling
2. Tongue body movement - deviated, short, licking, curving

Tongue body color

1. Tongue body color - pale, red, crimson, purple, blue

All of these charts come from the soon-to-be-published Traditional Chinese Medicine Formula Study Guide by Yi Qiao, L.Ac., and Al Stone, L.Ac., DAOM. Look for it in early January 2008, published by Eastland Press