The Evaluation of Chinese Therapeutic Food for the Treatment of Moderate Dyslipidemia

Table 16

Tongue features of the 43 participants.

Tongue feature	Frequency	Proportion of the total (%)
Tongue body color
Pink	6	14.0
Pale	12	27.9
Red	6	14.0
Purple	14	32.6
Red tip	15	34.9
Tongue body
Normal	13	34.9
Swollen	6	14.0
Thin	22	51.2
With teeth marks	21	48.8
Without teeth marks	22	51.2
Coating texture
Thin	7	16.3
Thick/greasy	9	20.9
Dry	6	14.0
Less than normal	3	7.0
Fissure	19	44.2
Coating color
White	28	65.1
Yellow	15	34.9