Gary Minns, Rated: 4

Still the Best Tongue Diagnosis Book

This book is one of the Great Man’s earlier, and cheaper, offerings (being first published in 1987). As expected from Maciocia, there is a huge amount of detail with entire chapters devoted to the three key tongue diagnosis areas: tongue body colour, tongue body shape and tongue coating. A number of simple black & white drawings decorate the text and are generally clear and very useful. There is also an informative section containing case histories.

There are quite a few books on tongue diagnosis around but this one remains the best, even after more than 20 years in print.