Tongue edge has tooth mark is spleen Yang deficiency or spleen Yin deficiency

Tongue marks usually belong to deficiency of spleen yang, but can also be seen in other diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spleen is the foundation of acquired nature, responsible for the transport of water in the body. When spleen yang deficiency fails, resulting in yin and cold endogenesis, cold and damp qi stagnation in the body, resulting in water retention in the body, tongue swelling will occur, easy to be pressed out of teeth marks. However, tongue marks are not specific manifestations of spleen yang deficiency, but can also be seen in other diseases, such as spleen deficiency, can also lead to reduced ability to transport water, the body of moisture evil flooding, and then tongue marks; Secondly, poor qi and blood, resulting in blood stasis in the tongue, can cause tongue filling, by the oppression of teeth, but also teeth marks.