TONGUE
Introduction: Tongue is the mirror of the digestive system. We can
identify the disorder of the digestive system (such as–irritation of stomach
& intestine, constipation, diarrhoea, dehydration, acidity, gastric ulcer,
gall-bladder disorder, liver disorder, jaundice, liver & spleen enlarged,
pyloric stenosis, cancer etc.)by the examination of tongue. Other disorders of
the body i,e- anaemia, haemorrhagic
disorder, heart & kidney problems, collapse etc. also be identified
by deeply examination of tongue.
Normal tongue
: Slight
red, wet or moist and clean.
Nature of
Tongue in Miasmatic view :
a)
Psoric
tongue: Long, narrow, fiery-red, wet or
dry, coated, trembling tongue (Voice loud, distinct pronunciation, rapid
speech, continuous talking).
b) Sycotic tongue: Thick,
narrow, rough rounded, dry & trembling tongue.
c) Syphilitic tongue: Heavy,
thick, flabby, smooth, wet/moist, tongue with imprint of teeth or indented,
black-spot, yellow coating, deep longitudinal cracks.
d) Tubercular tongue: White or
yellowish coating with ulcers on tongue, looks like curd.
Position of taste of Tongue :
Anteriorly - Sweet, pepper.
Posteriorly – Bitter.
Both side of tongue – Sour.
Middle portion – Salt.
Taste of tongue
in Miasmatic view :
a) Psoric taste –
1. Intolerable sweet taste in mouth.
2. All food tastes as if burnt-is a
characteristic (or bunt taste is only Psoric).
3. Sour, sweet, bitter or “a bad
taste”.
4. Bitter taste (mostly in the
morning).
5. Much perverseness of taste-
Ø Bread tastes bitter.
Ø Water has an abnormal taste
etc.
b) Sycotic taste –
1. Fishy taste.
2. Putrid odour.
c) Syphilic taste –
1. Metallic taste especially coppery
taste.
d) Tubercular taste-
1. Putrid taste or Taste of pus or
blood.
Diagnostic area of Tongue according to Chinese
medicine –
1.The tip of
the tongue- is the eye of the heart.
2.The two sides of the tongue –are the
eyes of the liver.
3.The root of the tongue –is the
eye of the kidney.
4.The middle
of the tongue –is the eye of the stomach.
Alternating state of Tongue indicates
different illness :
1.Dirty,
yellow or white coating tongue–suggest imperfect digestion, constipation.
2.Dark red
marking – indicate imperfect oxidation of the blood.
3.Longitudinal
or transverse fissure – suggest kidney trouble.
4.Normal
5.Pale
tongue – indicates anaemia, haemorrhage, exhausting diseases.
6.Very
bright red tongue –indicates stomach & intestinal irritation, urinary
infection.
7.Fiery red
tongue –indicates urogenital infection, death coming, prognosis fatal.
8.Purple
tongue – suggest blood stagnation i.e - liver
&/or spleen enlarged.
9.Blue or
black tongue – indicates lungs or heart diseases (Cyanosis, Hypoxiaemia).
10.Yellow
tongue – indicates jaundice.
11.Yellow or
greenish tongue – indicates gall bladder or liver diseases.
12.Green or
greenish-brown tongue – indicates gall bladder or liver diseases.
13.Painless
ulcers (cracked or fissure) in the middle portion of tongue – suggest the
diseases of latent syphilis.
14.Enlarged,
flabby, moist tongue with indented/imprint of teeth - indicates syphilis.
15.Cracks in
the middle portion of tongue – suggest large intestinal disorder i,e-Pyloric
stenosis.
16.Yellow
furring – indicates excess toxins and acidity.
17.Cold
tongue –suggest collapse condition of the body.
18.Trembling
tongue on opening mouth – indicates mental stress, tension.
19.Black
tongue – indicates possibility of
cancer.
20.People with
cancer & gastric ulcers usually have a remarkably clean tongue, but may
also have a very red tongue.
21.Purple or
magenta colored with cracks of corners of mouth & with bald-looking patched
on lips –indicate lack of Vit-B12 (Riboflavin) as in Brewers yeast.
Figure of Tongue in Several medicines –
See Below:
Different Symptoms of Tongue with Repartory:
Aphthae tongue- BOR, Merc, Nat-mur, Mur-acid, Phos, Sul, Sul-acid.
Black
tongue- ARS,
CARB-VEG,CHINA, CADMI-SUL,MERC,PHOS.
Blisters on tongue(Vesicles)- AM-C, APIS, ARS, Calc, Canth, Caust, Graph, Lach,
LYCO, NAT-MUR, NIT-ACID, Nux-v, RHUS-T, Sep, Staph, SUL, Thuja.
Blue
tongue- ANT-TART,
ARS, DIG, Carb-veg, Mur-acid.
Broad
tongue- Nat-mur,
Puls.
Clean
tongue- Ars, IPEC,
Pyrog, Rhus-t,CINA, Asar, Hyos.
Anteriorly
clean,coated posteriorly – Nuv-vom.
Coated
tongue - Ant-crud,
Bryo, Nux-vom.
Thickly coated
tongue- ANT-CRUD, Chel, Bry, Nux-v, Kali-bi, Merc ,Nat-p, Puls, Hydras.
White coated
tongue- ANT-CRUD, Ars, Bell
Yellow coated
tongue- Mag-mur.
Cold
tongue- Ars,
CAMPH, Carb-veg, Colch, Cupr-s, iris, laur, Nat-mur, Ox-acid,
Ph-acid, VERAT.
Condylomata
on tongue- Aur-mur,
Aur-m-n.
Cracked tongue/Fissure- Ail, ARS, Ars-i, Calc-f, Equi, ARUM-T,FL-ACID, HYOS,
NIT-ACID, PHOS, RHUS-T, Spig.
Cracked in
all directions- FL-ACID, NIT-ACID.
Cancer
of tongue- KALI-CY,
Ars, Apis, Alumn, Aur,Aur-m, Carb-an, Con, Hydr, Kali-i, Lach, MUR-ACID,
Nit-acid, Phos, Phyto, Sil.
Atrophy & Blue discolouration- Mur-acid.
Dirty
tongue- CHIN,
NAT-SUL, Camph, Kali-chl, Syph.
Dry
tongue- Aco, Apis, Ars, Bell, Bry, Cala-c, Camph,
Caust, Cham, Chin, Cupr, Hell, Hyos, Lach, Merc-s, Mur-acid, Nux-m,
Puls,Rhus-t, Sul, Ter, Verat-v.
Dark
streak in center, typhoid tongue – Arn, Bapt,
Mur-acid.
Enlarged
tongue (Syphilitic)- Nit-acid.
Flabby
tongue- Calc-s,
CAMPH, MERC, Nat-mur.
Flabby,
moist with imprints of teeth- Hydras,
Merc, Merc-cor, Merc-d, Merc-sul, Podo, Rhus-t.
Green
tongue- NAT-SUL, Nit-acid,
Plb, Rhodo.
Greenish
brown tongue- Nat-sul.
Gray tongue- NAT- SUL,CHEL.
Hair
on tongue- SIL,
Kali-bi, Nat-mur.
Heaviness
of tongue- NAT-MUR,
Anac, Bell
Herpes on tongue – Nat-mur, Rhus-tox, Zinc.
Indented/Imprint of teeth- ARS, CHEL, MERC, RHUS-T, Calc, Carb-veg, Crot-c, Hydr, Iod, Podo, Puls, Sep, Syph.
Inflammation
of tongue
(Glossitis) – Acon,APIS,Arg-n,Arn,Ars,Beng-acid,Calc-s,Canth,CROT-C,CROT-H,Cupr,LACH,Mag-m,Merc,Merc-c,Nat-mur,Nit-acid,Ph-acid,Phyt,Plb,Prun,Sil,Staph,Sul,Sul-acid,
Mapped
tongue- NAT-MUR,
TARAX, Ars, Kali-bi, LACH, Nit-acid, RHUS-T, THUJA.
Numbness
of tongue- GELS,
NUX-M, Nat-m.
Pale
tongue- MERC, Ars,
Chel, Ferr, Ipec, Kali-c, Lyss, Nat-mur, Sep, Verat.
Paralytic
tongue- Arn, Bell
Old people of-
Bar-c.
Pointed
tongue - calc,
Chel, Lach, Petr.
Protruding
tongue- Apis,
CROT-H, Hell, Lach, Lyco, Merc-c, PHYT.
Red
tongue- APIS, ARS,
BELL
Fiery red - APIS, Bell
Fiery red tip
- RHUS-T, Phyto.
Reddish
tip of tongue- Ars,
Arg-nit, Phyto, Rhus-t, Sul.
Reddish
edges of tongue- Ars, Cheli,
Merc-sol, Sul.
Ringworm
on tongue- Nat-mur,Sanic,
Ran-s,Tarax.
Roughness
of tongue- Apis, Arg-nit, ARS, ARUM-T, Bry, CANTH, Kali-bi, NIT-ACID,
Nux-v, Phyto, Podo, RAN-S, Sul.
Streaks in
center- Calc.
Smooth
tongue- Apis,
Arg-nit, Ars, Crot-h, Glon, KALI-BI, LACH,Nat-mur,Nux-v, Phos, Plb, Pyrog, Sec,
Sul-acid, Ter.
Trembling
of tongue- Apis,Bell
After delivery-
Crot-h.
Tip of tongue-
Nat-mur, Sil.
Ulcers
on tongue- Ars, Apis, Arg-nit, Aur, BAPT, Bar-c, Bar-m, Calc, Chin,
Fl-acid, Kali-bi, KALI-I, Kreos, Lach, MERC, Merc-i-r, Nat-mur, Nit-acid,
Phyto, Plb, PSOR, Sul.
Syphilitic-
Kali-bi,Kali-i,Lach,MERC,Mez,NIT-ACID,Phyt.
Warts
on tongue- Aur, Aur-m,
Aur-m-n, Kali-s, Lyco, Mang, Syaph.
White
tongue- ANT-CRUD,
ARS, BELL BRY, CALC, HYOS, KALI-BI, Kali-c, MERC, NIT-ACID, Nux-v, PULS,
SUL, Spig, Tarax.
Yellow
tongue- ANT-CRUD,
CHEL, MERC, Nux-v, RHUS-T, Hydras, Kali-bi, Kali-s, Sang, Spig.
Yellow
dirty tongue- Merc,
Merc-cor, Merc-i-f, Lach, Opium, Sep.
Specific medicine for different conditions of Tongue –
1. Aphthae,
infants – Bryo
2. Aphthae
bluish / Blue ulcer in tongue – Ars.
3. Aphthae
black – Bapt.
4. Aphthae
tongue with burning – Nat-mur.
5. Aphthae
tongue with sensitive – BORAX.
6. Abscess
tongue accompanied by pricking pains – Merc.
7. Clean
anteriorly, coated posteriorly – Nux-vom.
8. Clean at
menstrual period, foul after flow ceases – Sep.
9. Clean
tongue accompanied by bitter taste in old women – Carb-veg.
10. Cracked
tongue accompanied by aphthae – Borax.
11. Cracked
tongue accompanied by black tongue – Lyco.
12. Cracked
tongue in all directions accompanied by ulcer in the center – Fl-acid.
13. Cracked
tongue after typhoid fever - Merc
14. Denuded
spots on tongue – Ran-s.
15. Dryness of
tongue, as if tongue would fall into powder – NUX-M.
16. Enlarged
tongue – Nit-acid.
17. Eruption
(Herpes) under tongue – Nat-carb.
18. Eruption(Vesicles)
on tongue, bleeding from slightest touch –Mag-carb.
19. Flat tongue accompanied by side raised -Kali-bi.
20. Frothy with
bubbles on side – Nat-mur.
21. Furrows
lengthwise, in upper part –Merc.
22. Grayish-white
base – Kali-mur.
23. Greenish
brown tongue- Nat-sul.
24. Hair
sensation of anterior part of tongue – SIL.
25. Hair
sensation of posterior part of tongue – Kali-bi.
26. Itching
root of tongue – Nux-vom.
27. Injuries
tongue by sharp sides of teeth – Aloe.
28. Mapped
tongue with red, insular patches – Nat-mur.
29. Papillae of
tongue ,absent (depapillated)– Penic.
Absent tip at – Carc.
30. Pulsation
in tongue –Vespa.
31. Red, wet,
central furrow – Nit-acid.
32. Ringworm
on tongue –Sanic.
33. Smooth
(shining, glazed) tongue accompanied by clean tongue –Nat-mur.
34. Tongue, tie
–Syph.
35. Trembling
of tongue after delivery- Crot-h.
36. Ulcerative
stomatitis accompanied by aphthae on tongue –Sul.
37. Ulcerative
stomatitis accompanied by indented tongue –Hydr.
38. Ulcerative
stomatitis accompanied by flabby tongue –Hydr.
39. Ulcerative
stomatitis accompanied by dirty, yellow discolouration of tongue – Kali-mur.
40. Yellow
coated tongue- Mag-mur.
DR. MD.
HASANUZZAMAN
BHMS (DU),
HMD (LONDON)
Chamber
Natural Health
House # 15, Road # 34, Sector # 7, Uttara.
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