The cardinal symptoms and objective signs of syndrome of deficiency of kidney-yang are in terms of intolerance to cold, cold limbs and pale corpulent tender tongue with indentation in margin of the tongue; 肾阳虚证的主要症状和体征为:舌边有齿痕、舌淡、舌胖嫩、形寒肢冷;
In addition, in such patients the large fat tongues were primary, a few were little thin tongues, more than 40% tongue body accompanied with indentation, more than 30% accompanied with crack. 此外,此类患者舌体胖大者居多,少数为瘦小舌,40%以上患者舌体伴有齿痕,30%以上伴有裂纹。