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 Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:01 pm
During the cold I recently had, I asked my boyfriend what colour my tongue was - he said grey. Ever since then, I've looked at it almost every day after brushing my teeth. It's quite pale and according to an About.com article pale shows an "excess of cold". I have been extremely cold lately - yesterday I wore a tank top under a sweater under a fleece under a down vest and shivered all day. So, do you guys pay attention to your tongue? Have anything to add? PaleMay be a sign of: Excess cold, especially if thick white coating. Spleen qi deficiency, especially if thin white coating Blood deficiency, especially if dull, pale face and lips RedMay be a sign of: Excess heat, especially if there is a thick yellow tongue coating. Yin deficiency, especially if tongue body is thin and coating is thin, absent or peeled. PurpleMay be a sign of: Stagnant qi Stagnant blood if dark purple tongue body and/or red spots on the tongue Other articles: http://www.cmu.edu/magazine/02fall/tongue.htmlhttp://www.hps-online.com/ntongue.htm
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:28 am
Now I'm going to have to stare at my tongue compulsively. Though there's usually this grossish film on it. I really want to buy one of those tongue scrapers.
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Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 12:32 pm
onicoe Now I'm going to have to stare at my tongue compulsively. Though there's usually this grossish film on it. I really want to buy one of those tongue scrapers. Haha, i got one when i got my tongue pierced x3 My tongue is red, but it trembles =O
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:32 pm
hmm my tongue is sortof of pale-reddish almost purple. There's usually some degree of a white coating on it, really gross when it's thick because my whole mouth tastes like death.
I've always found the traditional chinese medicine confusing with the whole water-fire-metal elements in it.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:22 pm
onicoe I've always found the traditional chinese medicine confusing with the whole water-fire-metal elements in it. When someone starts using words like "yin," "yang," and "qi," I consider that my cue to move along and look for someone whose medical expertise involves less ancient superstition, or rather, can describe what they're talking about in chemical terms rather than mystical ones.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:34 pm
Syera Miktayee onicoe I've always found the traditional chinese medicine confusing with the whole water-fire-metal elements in it. When someone starts using words like "yin," "yang," and "qi," I consider that my cue to move along and look for someone whose medical expertise involves less ancient superstition, or rather, can describe what they're talking about in chemical terms rather than mystical ones. The chinese medicine system is one of the oldest around, I'm willing to give it the same credit that I do the more western "folklore" medicines that many follow. I just find the system confusing and honestly haven't read much about it. I don't think it's superstition so much as their philosophies and the language they use to describe it are alien to how western knowledge/knowing is processed.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:30 am
There may be some scientific principal behind traditional Chinese medicine at least some of the time. If this is so, then it shouldn't be all that hard to figure out why it works from a biochemical point of view. However, a lot of practitioners seem to be too caught up in the semi-mystical aspect.
Age doesn't necessarily indicate accuracy, either. Blood sacrifices to ensure healthy crops are one of the oldest ones in the book. Heck, human sacrifices survived in Africa up until the nineteenth century. razz
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:56 pm
Yes, I always want to know why and how something works. I would like to see more basic, old diagnosis methods used, however, such as checking fingernails, tongues, and eyes---many basic nutritional imbalances and even potentially dire conditions (ie, clubbing and heart disease) could be diagnosed much more quickly, inexpensively, and accurately this way. It seems that in Western cultures, especially, that we treat the symptoms and do not continue the search to find the basic problem.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:18 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:32 pm
There are more details to it as well, like the areas of the tongue that have particular coloring, or a white coating, or cracking, etc. Ayurvedic lifestyle practitioners learn about ways to find health problems through looking at the tongue, and through that what changes a person could make to their diet to improve their health. It's pretty interesting, although I don't know it myself, a woman I study with does.
According to the ayurvedic system, a white coating on the tongue means toxicity in the body. Where the coating is corresponds to the area of the body affected.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:29 pm
That's exactly it---the entire western medical industry in a nutshell. Sad. I have a son who wants to be a doctor, but has been raised toward the good nutrition side of things, and he's really torn between "medicine" and a more health-focused approach---the right way. He doesn't want to pay for years of b.s. in medical school that he knows he will not practice. Right now, he's a vet tech, and sees lots of the same b.s. there. It has gone on so long now that it is a part of the culture.
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:09 am
Ha-ha! That's perfect! Sooooo very true! The medical industry only gets rid of the pain for a little while till one has to take double the doseage and the problem isn't really fixed, just 'treated'. Meanwhile, the medical industry is eating up your money. Did you know that the pharmaceutical industry is the second or third largest money making industry in the US? Nice, huh?
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Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:21 pm
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