Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis (2nd Edition)

Barbara Kirschbaum
ISBN: 978-0-939616-71-8
Eastland Press
300 pag. hardcover 22 x 29 cm

This new edition combines and reconfigures the content of the two volumes in the original edition into one new, integrated volume. It contains over 200 color photographs of tongues seen in a Western clinic. The photos provide a graphic representation of a wide variety of common disorders. Each photograph is accompanied by a description of the significant features of the tongue, the corresponding Chinese diagnosis for each feature, accompanying symptoms, Western diagnosis, and pertinent background information. The sequence of the photos within a chapter shows the increasing degree of imbalance among the body’s energies.

The presentation of the tongues is organized according to the nature of the underlying organ disharmony: Lungs, Spleen, Stomach, Kidney, Heart, Liver. Other chapters focus on particular aspects of the tongue such as pale tongues, cracked tongues, special coatings, as well as those associated with heat disorders and blood stasis. There is a section of case studies, and a final chapter that surveys several cases which reflect changes on the tongue over the course of treatment, with before and after photographs. This systematic presentation provides the student and practitioner with a much deeper understanding of the methodology of tongue diagnosis in Chinese medicine.